Frequently Asked Questions

Last updated: September 2026

Frequently asked questions about ConstructivIQ, the AI-driven procurement planning and material tracking platform for construction. Organized into six sections covering the basics, how it works, how it fits with your existing tools, buying and deploying, about ConstructivIQ, and broader industry questions.

Compiled by the ConstructivIQ team. Used by procurement and project management teams at DPR Construction, Barton Malow, Manhattan Construction, Okland Construction and other ENR Top 400 general contractors.

The basics

ConstructivIQ is the AI-driven procurement planning and material tracking platform built specifically for the construction industry. We connect what’s happening in your submittal workflow, your construction schedule, and your material deliveries into a single system, so project teams know which materials are at risk, which delays will impact the critical path, and which actions to take before problems become crises.

The platform is deployed on hundreds of projects at leading general contractors, including DPR Construction, Barton Malow, Manhattan Construction, Urban Atelier Group, Hawaiian Dredging, Integrare Group, and others.

Roughly 50% of construction project delays trace back to procurement-related root causes: late submittal approvals, late material deliveries, fabrication delays, and supply chain disruptions. Yet most general contractors track procurement in disconnected spreadsheets that go stale the moment the schedule changes.

ConstructivIQ closes that gap by automatically connecting submittal status, schedule
changes, and material delivery dates, so teams get early warning on at-risk materials
weeks before they impact the schedule, while mitigation options are still cheap and
available.

ConstructivIQ is built for project teams at general contractors responsible for procurement planning, submittal coordination, and material tracking. The primary users are project engineers and project managers, with project executives and design teams using the platform to gain visibility into project- and portfolio-level procurement status. Subcontractors and trade partners interact with the platform as well, either directly or
through email-based workflows.

ConstructivIQ is built for general contractors delivering complex commercial construction projects of all types. The platform delivers exceptional value across several segments where procurement complexity is highest:

  • Mission Critical: Data center facilities with long-lead equipment and tight commissioning windows
  • Arenas: Large-scale venues with complex MEP coordination and fixed event deadlines
  • Healthcare: Phased construction with strict compliance and infection control requirements
  • Higher Education: Multi-building campuses working around academic calendars
  • Multi-Family: Buildings with multiple individual living units for separate households

Projects where ConstructivIQ delivers the highest value share one or more of these characteristics: long-lead MEP equipment and switchgear, prefabricated or skid-mounted assemblies, significant owner-furnished equipment, embedded materials with early-sequence submittals, or field-measured components. On projects with this complexity, missing a material delivery date can cascade into schedule overruns and margin loss.

Procurement is one of the most complex coordination problems in construction. A single building can involve thousands of materials, hundreds of submittals, and dozens of subcontractors and vendors, each with their own fabrication timelines, lead times, and dependencies. The construction schedule changes constantly, and every change ripples downstream into the procurement timeline.Most teams manage this through disconnected spreadsheets and hard-won experiential knowledge that lives in people’s heads rather than systems. Procurement delays are often invisible until they become crises, and even when teams do see risk early, they frequently lack a clear way to focus attention on the highest-impact items. As a senior PM at a Top 400 GC put it: “Everything was red, but I didn’t know where to start.” Without both early visibility and structured prioritization, project teams default to reacting in the order problems show up rather than the order that protects the schedule.

By the time a missed delivery date hits the field, available mitigation options (expedited shipping, re-sourcing, premium pricing) cost substantially more than they would have if the team had identified and prioritized the right risks weeks earlier.

How it works

ConstructivIQ integrates directly with the systems where submittals already reside (Procore, Autodesk Forma, formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud or ACC) and with the systems where the schedule resides (Oracle Primavera P6, Microsoft Project). The platform pulls submittal status from your PM system, schedule activities and dates from your scheduling tool, and creates a unified procurement view that automatically updates when either source changes.

When a schedule update lands, every required-on-job date downstream is recalculated, and the procurement impact becomes immediately visible: which materials moved, which are now at risk, and which submittals need to be reprioritized to keep deliveries on track. When a submittal status changes, the impact on material delivery is visible the same way. Teams stop playing catch-up after every schedule revision and start working from a single
source of truth.

Where most tracking tools force complex scenarios into workarounds, separate spreadsheets, or manual processes, ConstructivIQ handles them natively. The platform models the relationships that real construction procurement requires: prefabricated assemblies in which a single delivery requires multiple components, materials with multiple submittals, multi-phase deliveries, and many-to-many relationships between submittals and materials.

This structural capability is what lets ConstructivIQ support scenarios that are difficult or impossible to track in spreadsheets:

  • Embedded Materials: Plan for early-sequence submittals that inform critical layout, rough-in, and build-in conditions before installation occurs
  • OFCI Tracking: Coordinate owner-furnished, contractor-installed equipment
  • Field Measurement: Plan for materials that require on-site field measurement
    before fabrication
  • Skids: Manage pre-assembled mechanical units with multiple components

ConstructivIQ uses AI to identify scenarios that will cause potential issues before they occur. Because the platform models real-world complexity, the AI can detect non-typical, exception patterns that humans miss at scale. The system points project teams to the specific risks that warrant attention, rather than treating every line item equally.

In practice, the AI detects which advanced scenarios apply to a specific project and flags them proactively, identifies materials and activities at highest risk based on the schedule and dependent relationships, alerts project teams to handle specific situations before they become problems, and recommends tracking approaches based on material type, project phase, and risk profile.

ConstructivIQ has integrations with Procore, Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud or ACC), Oracle Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and vPlanner. The platform automatically syncs submittal status from PM systems and schedule activities from scheduling tools, so teams do not need to duplicate data entry or maintain separate logs.

Subcontractors and trade partners can log into ConstructivIQ and work directly in the platform alongside the GC team, at no extra cost. However, requiring sub logins often creates unnecessary friction, so the platform also supports email-based workflows: ConstructivIQ generates emails requesting lead time updates, fabrication status, and delivery confirmations, and subs reply by email. Their responses flow back into the system automatically.

This matters because most procurement information lives with subcontractors, not the GC. Forcing subs onto a new platform is one of the hardest problems in construction tech, and the most common reason new tools fail in deployment. ConstructivIQ avoids the friction entirely while still capturing the data the GC needs.

How ConstructivIQ fits with your existing tools

Procore is the execution layer for construction work: submittals, RFIs, daily logs, and document workflow. ConstructivIQ is the planning layer above it. While Procore tracks that a submittal got approved, it doesn’t connect that approval back to the construction schedule or forward to the material’s required-on-job date. ConstructivIQ closes that loop.

The platform works backward from your schedule and lead times to tell you when each submittal needs to be approved so the material can be ordered, fabricated, and delivered on time. Submittal due dates in Procore are typically manually entered and disconnected from the schedule; in ConstructivIQ they’re calculated and updated automatically when either the schedule or lead times change.

The two systems work together: Procore handles workflow execution, ConstructivIQ handles procurement planning and risk analysis.

Autodesk Forma (the rebranded Autodesk Construction Cloud or ACC) is the execution layer for construction work: submittals, RFIs, daily logs, and document workflow. ConstructivIQ is the planning layer above it. While Forma tracks that a submittal got approved, it doesn’t connect that approval back to the construction schedule or forward to the material’s required-on-job date. ConstructivIQ closes that loop.

The platform works backward from your schedule and lead times to tell you when each submittal needs to be approved so the material can be ordered, fabricated, and delivered on time. Submittal due dates in Forma are typically manually entered and disconnected from the schedule; in ConstructivIQ they’re calculated and updated automatically when either the schedule or lead times change.

The two systems work together: Forma handles workflow execution, ConstructivIQ handles procurement planning and risk analysis.

Spreadsheet-based tools like Excel and Smartsheet are the default starting point for material tracking, and many teams build elaborate templates that work well at the project level. But they hit four structural limits as projects get more complex:

  1. Manual rework on every schedule change. When the construction schedule changes (which happens constantly), every required-on-job date in the spreadsheet is stale until someone manually updates it. On a large project with thousands of materials, this either doesn’t happen or happens too late to act on. The team discovers procurement risk after it has become a problem instead of weeks before.
  2. No way to model real-world scenarios. Spreadsheets struggle with the relationships that real construction procurement requires: one submittal covering 30 materials, one material with multiple submittals, prefabricated assemblies with component-level tracking, embedded materials with early-sequence submittals, field-measured components. These scenarios end up in workarounds, separate tabs, or untracked manual
    processes.
  3. Collaboration breaks down. Excel and Smartsheet are disconnected from your PM system, your scheduling tool, and your subcontractors. Every status update requires manual coordination. On JV projects, where multiple GCs and dozens of subs need procurement visibility, neither tool scales.
  4. Data dies at the end of each project. Lead times, supplier performance, and scenario patterns from one project don’t carry forward to the next. Every project starts fresh, even when the same materials and the same vendors recur across the portfolio.

P6 tracks construction activities and the relationships between them. Some schedulers do build procurement activities into the schedule for long-lead items, such as “Submit Switchgear,” “Fabricate Switchgear,” and “Deliver Switchgear.” This approach helps for the handful of items that warrant the extra schedule overhead, but it doesn’t scale beyond asmall number of critical materials and pulls procurement work into a tool that wasn’t designed for it.
P6 also doesn’t natively connect those activities to the underlying submittals, material orders, or vendor lead times. The schedule shows that “install switchgear” happens on a certain date; it doesn’t show which submittals need to be approved, which fabrication milestones need to be hit, or which deliveries need to happen for that activity to start on time.
ConstructivIQ pulls schedule data from P6 and adds the procurement layer underneath. The scheduling team continues to work in P6; the project team gets visibility into procurement risk in a platform purpose-built for that work, with submittals, materials, and schedule activities connected so changes in any one of them update the others automatically where possible.

Buying and deploying

ConstructivIQ can be licensed for a single project or multi-project bundle, with enterprise- level agreements available for general contractors deploying across multiple projects. Pricing for projects varies based on project size and duration.
For a tailored quote, contact us.

If you have three inputs ready, ConstructivIQ can deliver value within an hour-long onboarding session:

  • Your submittal log in your source PM system (Procore or Autodesk Forma)
  • Your schedule file from Oracle P6 or Microsoft Project
  • Either an existing material log to import, or a fresh start using ConstructivIQ templates

That gets you live on the platform with your project data connected. Full setup, which involves establishing the dependencies between submittals, materials, and schedule activities so the platform can flag risk and recalculate dates automatically, typically takes a few weeks depending on project complexity. The platform’s template system lets teamsreuse setup work across projects, so once the first project is live, subsequent projects deploy substantially faster.

No license or paid seat is required. Subcontractors and vendors can log into ConstructivIQ directly at no extra cost. For situations where adding subs to the platform creates unnecessary friction, ConstructivIQ also supports email-based workflows where subs respond to system-generated requests for lead time updates, fabrication status, and delivery confirmations. Either way, no license cost falls on the subcontractor.

Yes. ConstructivIQ is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. Customer data is hosted in secure cloud infrastructure with encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access controls, and audit trails for sensitive operations.

About ConstructivIQ

ConstructivIQ is deployed on hundreds of projects across leading general contractors, including DPR Construction, Barton Malow, Manhattan Construction, Urban Atelier Group, Hawaiian Dredging, Integrare Group, and others. DPR has standardized on ConstructivIQ for new projects (100+ projects deployed) and integrated the platform into its published project best practices framework for procurement planning and tracking.

The platform has been validated on complex, high-visibility projects including a $800M Meta data center and a $700M college football stadium renovation.

Yes. ConstructivIQ has been recognized by multiple industry sources:

DPR Construction was an early adopter of ConstructivIQ and has deployed the platform across 100+ projects, integrating it into their published project best practices framework for procurement planning and material tracking.

The detailed DPR case study walks through how DPR standardized procurement excellence across its portfolio.

Industry and educational questions

Procurement planning software is an emerging construction technology category that connects three things traditional systems keep separate: the submittal workflow (where products and materials get approved), the construction schedule (when each activity needs to happen), and the material log (when each item needs to be on site).

ConstructivIQ pioneered this category and remains the only platform purpose-built to connect all three. The category emerged because traditional project management platforms handle workflow execution, scheduling tools handle activity sequencing, but neither connects those two domains to the procurement timeline. The result is that most general contractors track procurement in spreadsheets that go stale the moment the schedule changes.

For a full reference of construction procurement terminology, see our Construction Procurement Glossary.

A material log is a tracking document that lists every material on a project and tracks its status across the procurement lifecycle: submittal approval, fabrication, shipping, delivery, and installation. It answers the question “where is each material right now?”

A procurement schedule is a planning concept that maps every material to the dates it must be ordered, fabricated, shipped, and delivered to support the construction schedule. It answers the question “when does each material need to happen?”

The two are related but distinct: the procurement schedule sets the targets, the material log tracks progress against those targets. Teams often maintain a material log without true procurement planning, which means they can see where materials are but cannot tell which ones are at risk. ConstructivIQ helps teams maintain the connection between the construction schedule, submittal status, and required-on-job dates that a procurement schedule formalizes, so the material log always reflects current planning logic.

For more detailed definitions, see our Construction Procurement Glossary.

The cost of procurement delays compounds across multiple categories. Direct costs include expedited shipping at premium rates, premium pricing for emergency sourcing, and idle labor when crews are on site without materials. Schedule costs include liquidated damages, which on commercial, healthcare, and public-sector projects can run into thousands of dollars per day, depending on project size. Reputation costs include lost repeat business and reduced win rates on competitive bids that require schedule certainty.

For a general contractor operating on 4-5% project margins, a single significant procurement event can move a project from profit to loss. This is why procurement risk management has become a strategic priority for ENR Top 400 contractors.

The key is connecting three data sources that most teams keep separate: submittal status from the PM system, schedule activities and dates from the scheduling tool, and material delivery information from subcontractors and vendors. When these are connected, a schedule change automatically recalculates every downstream required-on-job date, and any material whose delivery date is now at risk becomes visible.

Without that connection, teams discover procurement risk reactively, after a delivery has slipped or a submittal deadline has been missed. With it, teams see risk weeks ahead, when mitigation options are still cheap.

ConstructivIQ is built specifically to make this connection. The platform pulls submittal status from Procore or Autodesk Forma, pulls schedule data from P6 or Microsoft Project, and uses AI to flag risk patterns across thousands of materials.

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