| Session 1 — Thursday 2:00 – 3:15 |
| Quote System Part I: Quote Fundamentals (Repeated) |
Get started with HeavyBid's powerful Quote System. Learn how to create quote folders and link them to the vendors you will receive quotes from. Enter quoted prices for any subcontract items or material suppliers, then select a vendor, and automatically update the estimate with these prices.
This class is repeated on Thursday from 3:30 – 4:45. |
| Session 2 — Thursday 3:30 – 4:45 |
| Quote System Part I: Quote Fundamentals (Repeated) |
Get started with HeavyBid's powerful Quote System. Learn how to create quote folders and link them to the vendors you will receive quotes from. Enter quoted prices for any subcontract items or material suppliers, then select a vendor, and automatically update the estimate with these prices.
This class is repeated on Thursday from 3:30 – 4:45. |
| Quote System Part II: Automating the Quote System (Repeated) |
Learn how to set up the Quote System to automatically populate quote folders with resources and/or vendors into the current estimate. Use this feature to save time instead of manually adding quote folder items and vendors.
This class is repeated on Friday from 9:30 – 10:45. |
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| Session 3 — Friday 8:00 – 9:15 |
| Quote System Part III: Self-Performed Work |
Learn how to set up self-performed work activities in the estimate so you can compare your costs to subcontract costs. This allows you to use the Quote System to choose between using your costs or subcontract costs for doing the work. |
| Understanding the HeavyBid Accounting Interface |
Learn the techniques for quickly importing initial budget information from HeavyBid to your accounting system. Learn how to link accounting codes to your HeavyBid codes, extract your budgets at the biditem, activity, or resources level, and view the extent of data available to export, including billing and purchase order information. |
| Using Historical Data for Estimating |
Learn how to use HeavyBid's Bid History to track past bids, compare current estimates with past bid prices, calculate the average unit price for a specific item, and compare your historical bid prices to competitors' historical bid prices. You will also learn how to use the Cost History feature to analyze how an activity/biditem was estimated in the past and how much it actually cost to perform the work. Get key information, such as average MH/Unit, average Units/MH, and average Unit Cost. With this information at your disposal, you have a tremendous advantage over your competitors! |
| Session 4 — Friday 9:30 – 10:45 |
| Quote System Part II: Automating the Quote System (Repeated) |
Learn how to set up the Quote System to automatically populate quote folders with resources and/or vendors into the current estimate. Use this feature to save time instead of manually adding quote folder items and vendors.
This class is repeated on Friday from 9:30 – 10:45. |
| Quote System Part IV: What-Ifs and DBEs |
Use the Quote System to manage and meet your minority goals. Analyze the current minority dollars and use What-If scenarios to see how selecting different vendors affects your estimate and minority dollars. |
| Understanding HeavyBid Reports |
Go beyond the everyday reports you are used to running in HeavyBid, and uncover information you may not even know exists. We will explain what each report does and its value to you. Learn to customize query reports for the bid review and see how reports can vary according to the estimate. |
| Session 5 — Friday 11:00 – 12:15 |
| Power of the HeavyBid Edit Menu |
The ability to leverage your existing and historical estimating data is one of the most powerful capabilities in HeavyBid. Copying from estimate to estimate is one of the most effective and efficient ways to do so and is only one of the many tools available in HeavyBid's Edit menu. Learn when, why, and how to use each of the tools in the Edit menu as well as how to copy complete estimates, partial estimates, individual activities, and system codebooks. |
| Session 6 — Friday 1:30 – 2:45 |
| Basic Bid Closing (Repeated) |
Learn how to make bid adjustments, price items, and close the bid using HeavyBid. Discuss various closing schemes and procedures as well as the best way to maintain control of an estimate during the closing.
This class is repeated on Friday from 3:00 – 4:15. |
| Comprehensive Labor Setup |
This course covers setting up complicated labor work rules, work times, taxes, and benefits as associated with various union agreements for markets such as New York City. |
| Handling Alternates |
HeavyBid provides important features to help estimators figure alternates, whether you are trying to estimate different methods of doing the same work to find the most effective solution or you are giving an owner a menu of options to choose from. If you find yourself making multiple estimates to bid a single job, come learn about the tools HeavyBid provides and how they apply to the different situations an estimator can face. |
| Session 7 — Friday 3:00 – 4:15 |
| Basic Bid Closing (Repeated) |
Learn how to make bid adjustments, price items, and close the bid using HeavyBid. Discuss various closing schemes and procedures as well as the best way to maintain control of an estimate during the closing.
This class is repeated on Friday from 3:00 – 4:15. |
