Change Material Costs & Non-Add Activities
If you have been reading my blog posts for a while you know that I like the Change Material Cost screen. If you are not familiar with this screen and its powerful change options watch my Youtube video on it (LINK). But I found a…
Holding Accounts & Self Perform Work
This is one of those blogs that probably most estimators using HeavyBid won’t know what I am talking about but there are those users that setup Self Perform work with Holding Account activities. So if the sub is selected more than likely the holding account…
Addons-Job Value Calculation
I am pretty sure Addons has been around since the first DOS version of HeavyBid. In my recent blog I covered how to use an Addons entry to calculate G&A expenses so that they are separated from markup. Many companies calculate it on “Job Value”…
Comp Version & Star Functions
I didn’t know what to title this but if you have the Comprehensive Version and use Star functions in an Indirect biditem be aware how the star function will calculate. Summary has three options. 1st option, which is the most common choice of HeavyBid users,…
HCSS Custom Reports
If there was “my most important blog post of the year” category this would be it. HCSS has a great custom reports group that can do amazing things for a very reasonable price. It is a service that HCSS struggles to get the word out…
Determining HeavyBid Resource Escalation Cost
I discovered this today in my training. The Escalation feature of HeavyBid does a great job of calculating escalation per resource type, or per individual resource. You can show the escalation charge per resource type and total it in a report. This might be required…
Markup Versus Profit (Margin)
HCSS HeavyBid uses Markup for the most part for the basis of establishing a bid price however there are times where a desired Profit is set as the goal to establish revenue. Markup is a percentage of cost while Profit is a percentage of sales….
Estimate Review Workflow – Do it Better
Want to change your estimate review procedures for the new year? Tired of seeing errors creeping into your estimate and then not finding it until after the bid is submitted? Try the following: Start requiring estimates to be completed with plugged subs and material prices…
% Efficiency-Worth Your Consideration (Comp Version Only)
I am not sure why more companies don’t use the “% Efficiency” feature (Comprehensive Version Only). It adjusts the crew hours based on any productivity. Here is the math of the feature. Calculated Crew Hours x % Efficiency = New Crew Hours so 80% efficiency…
Cost Types – Setup for Quote System
In TOOLS>PREFERENCES>ESTIMATE PREFERENCES>COST TYPE SETUP you can setup additional resource cost types (Adv + versions only). It can be confusing what the check boxes do next to the setup. If checked HeavyBid will consider each resource beginning with that number as a subcontract. Therefore it…
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