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The Proposal Development module helps you close the bid with confidence, maximize your profit, and produce professional proposals that win more work. |
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With numerous ways to spread markup and overhead, handle last-minute changes and manipulate pay item prices, this Hard Dollar BID*BUILD module provides the proposal development functionality you need to:
- Setup pay items quickly and easily
- Establish markups by choosing from a variety of methods
- Make informed pricing decisions for every aspect of your project
- Produce proposals in a variety of formats for print or electronic submission
- Share information with your team in real-time
Setup pay items quickly and easily
- List an unlimited number of pay items, each with identification numbers, a description, bid quantity,
and take-off (forecast) quantity - Import pay item lists from public agency files, including support for all state DOT formats
- Insert subtotals at desired locations in the pay item list
- Specify alarm values for each pay item to be warned if the final proposed price for an item is outside the acceptable range
- Easily insert new pay items into an existing list to handle addendums
- Copy pay items from previous job folders, with or without their associated cost items and details
Establish markups by choosing from a variety of methods
- Establish markup by entering flat dollar values or percentages by cost category
- Establish markup by entering total markup as a flat dollar amount or percentage of total direct or total indirect costs
- Establish markup by entering margin percentages on each pay item
- Back-in to markup by entering the total job price
Make informed pricing decisions for every aspect of your project
- Review the job’s cost and profit through color-coded Price Breakdown Structure (PBS)
- Establish final pay item prices by automatically spreading indirect costs and profit back to each pay item using a variety of balancing routines
- Spread profit, indirect, and direct costs back to pay items using custom, user-defined routines
- Establish final pay item prices by manually entering desired prices on a pay item by pay item basis
- Establish final pay item prices to maximize profit by automatically spreading indirect costs and profit back to each pay item using an intelligent unbalance routine
- Make informed pricing decisions with onscreen display of total job revenue and profit based on both bid quantities and
take-off (forecast) quantities - Get instant answers while pricing with onscreen display of cost breakdown and cost details for each pay item
- Lock pay item prices to prevent further change from spreading routines (spreading routines will affect only the “open” items)
- Filter the display to show only the pay items currently of interest
- Easily identify over-run and under-run items with onscreen display of bid vs. take-off quantity variances
- Fix a pay item’s price to be a percentage of the job’s total price
- Make last-minute changes to costs and markup, and easily spread those changes across select items
Produce proposals in a variety of formats for print or electronic submission
- Print markup and pricing reports with customizable content
- Print hard copy proposals in a variety of ways, with support for state DOT pre-approved formats
- Submit electronic proposals, with support for state DOT formats
Share information with your team in real-time
- Allow multiple users to work in the same job folder at the same time
- Keep all users in the job in synch with real-time updates when changes are made by any user in the job folder
- See the list of users currently working in the job folder before "joining" the workgroup
- Maintain accountability with onscreen display of last changed information, including user name, date, and time
- Work as a team even across multiple locations
Module Prerequisites
Your company must have at least one license of the following BID*BUILD module(s):
Work Planning & Estimating
