Many times the effort involved in creating a pre-bid schedule seems not to be worth it. We are so busy just getting the quantity take-off done and the direct and overhead costs determined, any time to do a schedule just doesn’t seem to be available. We would like to know:

• Is the construction time less than the contract time?
• What is the construction time to determine any supervision costs?
• What is the impact of any liquidated damages?

With Hard Dollar Project Cost Management Software creating a pre-bid schedule is fast. Hard Dollar has the Cost Breakdown Structure that you determined, so all that is necessary is to send it out to a schedule system. The only time involved is in setting up a schedule with all the activities. Since Hard Dollar has the activities (Cost Items), the “setup” of data is already done.

A very preliminary schedule can be created with just the Level One (higher level of Cost Items) items. In just a few minutes, the linking can be done, and a rough schedule created. Instead of taking days, just a few minutes is needed.

The impact is to have a more complete picture of the job and all of its costs, so better decisions can be made before the proposal (tender) is submitted.

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