BIDS CONTRACTING
WICHITA · KANSAS
Attainable housing.
Built with velocity.
Systems for the high-net-worth individuals, developers, and landowners who demand clarity, speed, and excellence — from the contractor who builds the units and knows what they cost this month.
Austin Smith
SUCCESSOR & SYSTEM ARCHITECT
75+
UNITS A YEAR
~10%
GROSS YIELD
< 120 days
PERMIT TO KEYS
≤ budget
EVERY PROJECT
WHAT WE DO
Consulting & construction intelligence
GC & supplier takeoffsValue engineeringSchedule optimizationMaterial cross-checksScope adjustmentsPreconstruction guidanceRisk & delay mitigation
Production housing & attainable builds
100-day duplex cycles42+ years of builder experienceComplete building packagesStandardized systemsBuilt for velocity
Deal & development structuring
Land sourcingCapital-stack creationInvestor connectionsDevelopment-model structuringAcquisitions & exit scenarios
Carrying forward a legacy.
Building a scalable system.
Austin Smith leads Bids Contracting as successor to his mentor, Steve Manweller — carrying four decades of building standards forward while re-engineering the company into something that scales: repeatable, measured, built to hold quality at volume. Deming’s discipline, applied to production housing.
“I didn’t start the company. I’m scaling it.”
THE MONTHLY TEARDOWN
What a Wichita build actually costs — taken apart to the dollar.
One real deal a month: land basis, trade-by-trade cost, timeline, and the yield it throws. Build cost benchmarks an out-of-state investor can’t get anywhere else. Email only. No pitch.
LATEST TEARDOWN · BUFFALO GROVERead the full stack →
LAND BASIS
$29,000
ALL-IN COST
$308,266
RENT / MO
$3,200
YIELD ON COST
12.5%
Bids Contracting LLC · General Contractor · Wichita, KS
EST. WICHITA