The Estimating program allows a Bill of Quantities to be simply and quickly prepared in a variety of ways and printed as a set of professional documents, making this an invaluable tool for Builders, Estimators, Sub-contractors and Architects.
Functions available include:-
[Screenshots]- On-screen display of the Bill of Quantities, including fonts and page-breaks that will be as printed.
- Elements of the Bill created manually, copied from another Job or imported from a Standard Pricing Library.
- Spell checking is provided for the descriptions.
- Jobs may be imported from other Estimating or Bill Production Systems via industry standard CITE Files.
- Items may be added, copied, changed or deleted anywhere within the Estimate.
- Items may be rapidly located and displayed as a single list. Such grouping includes Items the have not yet been priced, Items containing selected resources, Items over a selected value etc.
- Dimensions take-off may be used to record measurements, including the use of a digitiser to take measurements directly from drawings.
- Rates may be directly entered or built up from Labour, Plant, Materials and Subcontract resources.
- Rate build-ups may have waste factors applied which reflect a true quantity.
- Waste factors can be set at individual Item level or globally across all Items.
- Activities may be created and used. These elements contain quantified build-ups of resources and other activities (to any depth). Analyses of the Resources split these activities into their component Labour, Plant, Materials and Subcontract elements.
- Resource prices may be adjusted globally, with the Bill Rates being automatically updated.
- Full analysis of Labour, Plant, Materials and Subcontract resources, giving total quantities, rate and value for each resource by Estimate and for individual Sections.
- Resources may be allocated to Cost Codes for export to accounting programs etc.
- Resource analysis may be printed without rates, to form the basis of an enquiry to suppliers or sub-contractors.
- Profits may be adjusted across Labour, Plant Materials, Subcontract elements and across individual/groups of Items.
- Analyse the job by user-defined groups. This facility allows the job to be exported to project management packages etc.
- All analyses including Rate Analysis and Dimensions may be printed.
- Professional quality Bill of Quantities printed, with or without rates, profit, VAT or converted to another currency.
- The Job may be printed with selected Resources rates, allowing Labour-only, Labour+Plant etc Bills.
- Preliminaries may be entered and calculated outside of the Job pricing, and the Preliminaries value transferred to the Bill as a set of Bill Items or as a percentage adjustment to the measured work.
- All reports may be sent to a CSV format file for use in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel.
- Estimates may be exported to industry standard C.I.T.E format files for transfer to other Estimating packages.
