BID2WIN Software in the News
High-Profile Projects Signal Technology Transformation: Online Bid Management
January, 2006
Published in Engineering News-Record
“It’s an exciting time,” said Russ Sanders, virtual building coordinator for The Orcutt/Winslow Partnership (OWP). “Today’s building tools allow us to design in real-time, quickly test value engineering concepts, perform energy simulations and much more in minutes. We make better decisions up front, thus delivering even better products down the road.”
OWP is not alone in its endorsement of a new generation of technology solutions. As you’ll see in the following pages, building design and construction firms across the country are adopting a wide range of system into everyday practice to achieve exceptional results.
One of the hottest technology directions is the implementation and application of building information modeling (BIM)—and the reasons are clear. Shaun Yancey, vice president of corporate development for PCL Construction Services, Inc., summed it up saying, “We truly believe that BIM can save 5 to 10% on just the construction process alone.”
To further drive its BIM directions, PCL recently hired a dedicated corporate-level model manager to provide support and training to all of its districts. Yancey added, “We anticipate in the next few years, we’ll have an entire department dedicated to modeling.”
Other technologies making news include the expanding role of accounting, estimating system and even document management and data sharing/collaboration methods. Individually or together, these tools offer building professionals of all sizes the opportunity to change the face of construction one project at a time.
BID2WIN Enterprise Edition: Online Bid Management
Manage bids and reports in a virtual environment with BID2WIN's new Management Reporting Module. This new add-on module to the BID2WIN Windows-based estimating and bidding solution allows users to access and analyze historical bid data from within the office or anywhere Internet access is available. Built-in tools help users run queries of past bids by date range, estimator, customer or bid status. Then, within these parameters, they can generate reports on equipment usage, material quantities and win/loss ratios. Users can also create subscriptions to have reports automatically e-mailed to them at a specified day and time.
This powerful reporting module provides keen insight into a company's historical bidding activity, which helps to streamline the bidding process and ultimately lead to more profitable bids.
Paul McKeon, president and founder of BID2WIN said, “This detailed level of reporting and analysis is necessary in a competitive industry with potentially small profit margins. Easy access to estimate and bid data gives managers better control over costs by reducing risk and increasing the accuracy and efficiency of bid generation.“
BID2WIN and the Management Reporting Module are core components of Bidding Intelligence, a unique business solution that combines the real-time control of estimate and bid data, utilizing BID2WIN, subcontractor/vendor collaboration and cross-bid reporting. For more information, visit www.bid2win.com.
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