Work Smarter
HeavyBid will help you automate repetitive, tedious, and boring data entry and allow you to spend more time estimating and reviewing.
Less repetitive work = more time for analyzing estimates
- Think more about productions
- Think more about scheduling
- Think more about the risky items
Quickly find unreviewed items that came in automatically
- Automatically generated information is flagged as unreviewed
- Create a checklist to find and review these items
- One click method to verify that all items are reviewed
Examine more alternate methods
- Work up multiple methods and control what is active in the estimate
- Quickly toggle methods on or off to examine the total cost effect
- Have fully worked up methods in templates to be used as a pick list
- Build alternates at the bid item level for use in bidding
- Toggle on and off entire groups of alternate bid items
- Use alternates to make design-build choices
- Win more business by giving private owners attractive alternates
Think more about indirect costs, overheads and markup
- Specify overhead costs at any level of detail
- Spread those overhead costs to bid items in many ways
- Examine the spread effects & markup on bidding strategies
Spend more time analyzing quotes on bid-day
- Fast entry and automation make it easy to get quotes in
- Analyze vendor quotes side by side
- Account for scope items to put quotes on an equal footing
- Compare self-performed work to subs up to the last minute
- Quickly change between self-performed work and subs
- Evaluate the current status towards minority goals
- "What If" scenarios help you meet minority goals with minimum impact
Standardize so everyone can tell what everyone else is doing
- Standardized structure makes it easy to find things
- Lots of flexibility within the standard structure
- Management can review at a high level
- Attached notes and documents support methods
- Standard calculation routines provide consistent review
- Estimators from different offices or companies can work together on important bids
- Perfect for joint venture estimating!
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