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HeavyBid is designed for use mainly by your company’s estimators. However, owners/executives, project managers, and accountants may also use HeavyBid.

HeavyBid has three different versions – Basic, Advanced, and Comprehensive – to match your company’s size and the complexity of your bidding requirements.

• HeavyBid Basic: Designed for companies with annual revenue of $10 million or less, this version provides all the features to help standardize your estimating, increase bid output, and make sure the proposals you’re providing are accurate.
• HeavyBid Advanced: Designed for companies with an annual revenue of $10-$100 million, the Advanced version includes the ability to subdivide bid items into individual pieces for more accurate pricing and allows the estimator to analyze costs differences between subcontracted and self-performed work.
• HeavyBid Comprehensive: Created for companies with an annual revenue of $100 million or more, this version is for organizations with complex bids such as joint ventures or design-build projects. Companies that deal with union labor work may also need the Comprehensive version.

• HeavyBid Basic’s top features include copy from previous estimate ability, proposal creation tools, integration with most accounting systems, DOT import and export capability, and quote management capabilities.
• HeavyBid Advanced includes all basic features, plus additional functions like subdivided bid items, an enhanced subcontractor quote system, bi-directional integration with scheduling software, subcontract versus self-perform work analysis, and more.
• HeavyBid Comprehensive has advanced capabilities like audit trail, user administration rights for enhanced network security, enhanced union labor work rules, complex markup capabilities, and enhanced cost distribution.

This depends on the number of users who will be accessing HeavyBid at one time. A typical purchase is one license for each user who will need to access the system at the same time. If you have more than one estimator, you’ll want to purchase multiple licenses to ensure that more than one person can work in HeavyBid at once.

Most companies implement HeavyBid over a two- to four-day period of consulting and training from one of our experienced estimating trainers. The length of implementation varies based on the scope of your goal as well as your company size.

HeavyBid can interface with your existing accounting system to avoid double entry and improve information accuracy. HCSS has partnered with more than 45 accounting systems (see the full list here). HCSS can also build a custom interface with your company’s accounting system.

HeavyBid can send project scheduling data into your scheduling software such as Microsoft Project or Primavera P3 or P6.

Your company can host your HeavyBid licenses on your own server, allowing for multiple users to be in the same job (or different jobs) at one time and have access to the same data, or HCSS can host your HeavyBid licenses and data on the highly secure HCSS Cloud, providing all security maintenance, data backups, and HCSS product updates without any work from your IT department.
An Enterprise system also is available for companies that have multiple divisions with separate data sets. All HeavyBid licenses in the Enterprise model are shared between the divisions, but the data are kept completely separate per division.
HeavyBid is also available as a standalone system, where all data are contained within the device being used.

HeavyBid sends all activities, material, and labor to HeavyJob without double entry to easily track production against the budget, while HeavyJob sends actual production and cost history back to HeavyBid to improve future estimating accuracy.
HeavyBid also sends crew and equipment needs requests directly to the HCSS Dispatcher system, including project schedules, to alert your dispatcher to future scheduling needs.
And estimators can now tie safety documents like meetings, inspections, and JHAs directly to activity codebooks in HeavyBid based on the activities they’re bidding, and the HCSS Safety system will pull those documents directly into the safety management system and the corresponding cost codes in HeavyJob to automate safety.
Learn more about how HeavyBid interacts with other HCSS products here.

HCSS offers personal, live technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week every day of the year. We strive to answer all calls in three rings or less, and we’ll never route you through confusing phone trees or outsourced support. HCSS also offers online live chat support and as well as a self-guided help site featuring support articles and case studies.

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