GradeBeam.com and Contractor Score Announce Exclusive Marketing Agreement

CHICAGO, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- GradeBeam.com a division of Textura Corporation, the premier on-line communication network for contractors, and Contractor Score, a leading management consulting firm specializing in construction, announce an exclusive marketing agreement.  Contractor Score will be offered through a special portal on GradeBeam.com to facilitate contractors effortlessly securing their "Contractor Score," a measure of their financial and management capacity. 

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A "Contractor Score" is fast becoming a key gauge of a contractor's capacity to meet a customer's needs on a particular project.  Many owners and general contractors across the United States and Canada now rely on a "Contractor Score" before deciding to partner with a contractor on a project.  This is rapidly expanding the transparency between building owners, general contractors and subcontractors while facilitating an improved qualification process. 

Bryan Jurewicz, President of GradeBeam.com, said, "We are very pleased to offer Contractor Score to our clients. This additional service reinforces the added value we provide and further differentiates our solutions.  We continually strive to find new and innovative services we can add to our application and our clients are our best source of ideas.  Many contractors told us how much they valued 'Contractor Score' and how it was becoming an industry standard.  We enjoy a strong working relationship with Contractor Score and look forward to our new partnership." 

"In any economic environment you want to know that the companies you collaborate with are financially sound and reliable," said Glenn Matteson, President of Contractor Score. "With Contractor Score, contractors on GradeBeam.com will be better able to communicate their current financial and management capacity to each other in a simple and confidential way via a single number, much like a consumer credit rating.  A 'Contractor Score' enables greater confidence among contractors to connect and work together through GradeBeam.com." 

Users will login to their GradeBeam.com account where they can acquire a Contractor Score through a strictly confidential qualification portal. Once they receive their "Contractor Score", the contractor can choose to keep it private or to share it.  The default is that the score will be kept strictly private.  However, the contractor can chose to securely post the score and make it accessible to only those prospective partners with whom they elect to share their qualifications.  Contractor Score and GradeBeam.com have partnered to seamlessly bring 21^st century technology capabilities to contractors.

About Textura

Textura is the leading provider of collaboration and productivity tools for the construction industry.  Our solutions serve all construction industry professionals across the project lifecycle – from design and pre-qualification to bid management, submittals and payment – on a single, integrated platform. 

Textura's collaboration platform and online product suite represent the first time the industry has all the tools needed to manage their business in an integrated fashion to save time and money and reduce exposure to risks.  With award winning technology, world-class customer support and consistent growth, Textura is leading the construction industry's technology transformation.  www.texturacorp.com   

GradeBeam.com a division of Textura Corporation is a leading online communications network specializing in bid management.  Our solutions allow industry professionals to post, manage and access critical project information from a central location.  With more than 400,000 contractor organizations using our applications we enable our clients to reduce costs, manage risk and expedite projects from beginning to end.  www.gradebeam.com

About Contractor Score

Contractor Score LLC is a management consulting firm specializing in the construction industry.  The management team has worked for over 30 years with contractors and their organizations.  The group is led by Glenn Matteson and is based in Raleigh, NC.  Contractor Score currently serves the entire U.S. and Canadian markets with designs to soon help other international clients.  For more information, please visit www.ContractorScore.net

CONTACT:Bryan Jurewicz, +1-312-428-4338, [email protected]

SOURCE Textura Corporation