HP Calculators
I know from my travels that there are many of you that love the highly venerated Hewlett Packard scientific and programmable calculators. It was the HP 41 that set the stage for the surveying data collector revolution and it was HP that birthday the Silicon…
Labor Setup Discussion
I see fairly frequently companies setting up labor costs with overheads that with careful consideration should be elsewhere in HeavyBid. Take General Liability for example. It might be based on a percentage of labor. Same for company overhead. But the test for me is this….
V2019 Webinar
If you missed this live webinar on HeavyBid Version 2019 it has been posted on the HCSS Academy site. There is some exciting stuff in this release and the webinar was done by Greg Keenan, HeavyBid product manager. His team is really doing some creative…
Come train with me in sunny St. Petersburg FL!
I have had a dream for a couple of years now to offer a training in Florida near my house where estimators can train during the day and then enjoy the beaches and atmosphere of St. Petersburg with their families (or simply as a company)…
Access HeavyBid Reports from Insights (Web Based)
So lets say your company has four HeavyBid licenses and they stay pretty tied up. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone like a PM or owner could print some reports on an estimate without getting into HeavyBid (and having to force someone else off)? This…
Right Click Bid Item Options
In Tree View if you have not right clicked on a biditem in a long time you need to. Two fairly new options I like. First one is the ability now to subdivide a biditem even if it has activities (1). All the activities in…
Subcontractor Scope Adjustments in HeavyBid – Video
One of the major issues putting together a good estimate is taking into account the costs of exclusions for Subcontract items. It can get complex trying to get accurate costs comparisons as each subcontractor for the same folder can be very different on what they…
Spreadsheet Codes
The internal spreadsheet in HeavyBid is very Excel like and a great tool to use. To really make it useful you want current data in HeavyBid like for example the Activity quantity or Biditem quantity to automatically come in the spreadsheet. Why type in what…
Critical HeavyBid Information
I presented this course in the 2017 UGM. The information is still applicable so I am posting it for download. Every company should develop its own “best practices” for HeavyBid and estimating in general and while this is not a best practices manual it does…
Indirect Costs? Why They are Different for Every Company
I get asked frequently for a list of indirect biditems (or activities). Here is why each company is unique in respect to its project indirects: there are costs that are allocated to the Company Overhead (COH) and then there are costs that get billed to…
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