Overview | Features | What's New in Version 9?

• Bid the Way You Build It

  

  Accubid delivers the power and flexibility you need to produce accurate and detailed estimates quickly and easily.

  Whether you're accustomed to using spreadsheets or another estimating program, or preparing estimates manually, you'll find Accubid estimating software intuitive and easy to use. Designed by contractors for contractors, Accubid estimating programs work the way you do.

• Accubid Pro
  Provides a complete enterprise estimating/project management solution.

• BidWinner Plus
  Provides additional takeoff modules, and a number of advanced features.

• BidWinner
  Provides the added flexibility and convenience of multi-level takeoff breakdowns, labor codes, cost codes, labor factoring, typical takeoffs, item substitution, and the ability to filter both the audit trail and the extension.

• PowerBid
  Specifically designed as an entry-level solution, PowerBid is easy to use, with fast and accurate results.

• Pocket Bid
  Accubid's handheld estimating software solution for the Pocket PC.

Overview | Features | What's New in Version 9?

Features

Please note: not all features are available on all products; see the
 Product Comparison Chart for details.

Proven Material Database

Each estimating program comes with a comprehensive material database priced and ready to use, with labor units, labor factoring, labor tracking codes and cost codes built right in.

Dynamic Takeoffs

Dynamic Takeoffs

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Create custom project specific assemblies on-the-fly. Dynamic takeoffs automatically calculate required quantities for each component in an assembly based on the length or count you specify.

Multi-level Breakdowns

Accubid estimating programs apply takeoff breakdowns in a multi-dimensional format, allowing you to view subtotals across breakdowns and in any order. You have complete flexibility and control, and can re-sort the extension and break down the bid by any combination of breakdowns you choose.

Live Extension

Live Extension

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Accubid's Live Extension instantly calculates each takeoff as it occurs. With a single click, you can jump from the audit trail to the extended bill of materials. From the Live Extension, you can sort the bill of materials by system, area, drawing, phase, location, labor factor, sort codes, unit price, and/or item in any order to perform reasonable checks. You can make last minute changes to quantity, material, and labor, and your changes are immediately reflected in the final price.

Instant Bid Summary

Instant Bid Summary

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Accubid's Instant Bid Summary allows you to compare components of the estimate using labor-to-material ratios, costs per foot per system or per floor. With Accubid Pro or BidWinner Plus, you can create multiple bid summaries, each with a different combination of takeoff breakdowns.

Project Management

Accubid estimating programs feature sophisticated project management tools. You can break down the entire bid by logical and physical aspects such as floor, system, area, cost code, or drawing, and export this information to other applications including Excel, MS Project, and ConstructJob, Accubid's web-based project management system for contractors. Project managers can quickly create a preliminary construction schedule or even e-mail material lists to suppliers. Accubid Pro's Bid Breakdown feature automatically distributes the general expenses, overhead, and profit across the various takeoff breakdowns, allowing you to easily create an initial schedule of values for billing purposes.

Multi-User Support

Our estimating solutions are part of your team. Each Accubid estimating program supports multiple estimators and enables job and database sharing. With Accubid Pro, you can share takeoffs across a network, split a project into multiple jobs, and merge the takeoffs into a master job.

Integration

Launch ChangeOrder from your estimating software, and bring an estimate into a ChangeOrder project as a baseline job, populating all the base contract amounts. Send sorted job information to QuickBooks and ComputerEase accounting systems.

Streamlined price updating

Use the NetPricer pricing service to update prices in the Extension. Export material database items as an Excel file that suppliers can use to enter or update prices which can then be used to update prices in your database

Support for Pocket Bid™ for the Pocket PC (sold separately)

Accubid's estimating solutions work seamlessly with Pocket Bid™, Accubid's handheld estimating solution for the Pocket PC. Just imagine: a complete estimate-from takeoffs to extension to final pricing-right in the palm of your hand.

Power Substitution

Quickly change material throughout the bid by substituting items and related components within existing takeoffs (Accubid Pro only)

Temporary Assemblies

Create assemblies on the fly and save them as part of your job instead of your material database.

Print Preview

Save time and paper by previewing your reports before you print them.

Overview | Features | What's New in Version 9?

What's New in Version 9

Accubid continues to lead the way with Version 9 of our family of estimating software solutions—Accubid Pro, BidWinner Plus, BidWinner, and PowerBid. Version 9 includes a number of exciting new features and enhancements to increase your accuracy and productivity.

• Updated look and feel
• Customize look and feel using screen themes
• Equipment screen to track equipment costs (Accubid Pro, BidWinner Plus only)
• Allocate costs across different takeoff breakdowns to be reflected on the Bid Breakdown screen (Accubid Pro only)
• Break down bid using breakdown views—combinations of multiple breakdown options (Accubid Pro only)
• Add notes to a takeoff or designation
• Control which columns get exported by selecting a screen or report style
• Reverse takeoffs from positive to negative and vice versa
• Copy and paste multiple rows and columns of information from other applications into any editable grid
• Combine multiple bid summaries into a single summary to be viewed or printed (Accubid Pro, BidWinner Plus only)
• and much more!