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Quick Bid

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What is Quick Bid?

Quick Bid is a construction and estimation software offering from On Center Software, Inc.

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Software makes bid easy by proper calculated estimates handy.

Incentivized
Jaspreet Kaur
Vice President of Customer Support in Manufacturing at Coolg Edu Solutions Pvt Ltd (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Quick Bid is a very usefull software for calculating construction estimates. As we are the service providers many companies tieup with us for solutions our construction users I always recommend Quick Bids for analysing whole budget and calculating proper estimate of material with a plan. This application finds risk factors and makes it possible to make less differences to gain material quotes.

Pros

  • allows users to divide the number of supplies by floor.
  • generates report after analysing risk factors.
  • provides support to contractors for making proper bid estimates.

Cons

  • difficult to make different codes for same type of materials.
  • costly product
  • Diificult for new users to adapt the software.

Return on Investment

  • Useful for calculations of estimates
  • too much functionality with high price
  • costly for maintain software for years

Alternatives Considered

Infor Property Management

Other Software Used

A/B Smartly, 3 Clicks Cloud, KAP Proposal Management

Quick Bid is a Perfect Fit

Incentivized
Ted Jarosh
Director of Self Perform, Estimating at Leopardo Co (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Quick Bid easily allows users to build assemblies and price projects with high levels of detail.
  • The E-Quote option saves a huge amount of time in analyzing vendor quotes and keeping things organized.

Cons

  • The initial setup of the database can take a fair amount of time to set up, but once complete it can be used for years with only small additions to fit the users' needs.
  • I have been waiting for the schedule of values option to be complete to help aid in billing. it was supposed to be released, but I have not seen it rolled out yet.

Return on Investment

  • Quick Bid has had a huge ROI for our company. We would not have been able to grow and take on our large projects without it.
  • The efficiency added for the estimators allows us to take on more projects with less staff.

Other Software Used

Vista by Viewpoint, PlanGrid, Bluebeam Revu

Large Scale Construction Tender Bidding Made Easy and Efficient.

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Sales (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Quick Bid helps us with Fast and Accurate Estimation to bid for work. It increases our estimating accuracy in a fraction of the time it takes manually. This will accelerate your bid estimation process which in turns will result in faster and more efficient bidding aand that way more bids can be placed which eventually increases number of bids that can be won.

Pros

  • Bid Estimation
  • Construction bid management
  • E quotes

Cons

  • Integrations
  • Calculations
  • Manufacturer material database improvement

Return on Investment

  • Helps with mass bidding
  • Helps with estimations
  • Professional reports help too

Other Software Used

HubSpot CRM, Bigin by Zoho CRM, Mailchimp

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Incentivized
Emilio ArmentaView profile
Anning Johnson in Sales at Anning Johnson (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Eliminates the human error of transferring quantities from a take-off to an Excel estimate spreadsheet.
  • Allows changes to be made very easily.
  • Allows you to reassign areas for breakout purposes.

Cons

  • Would like it to be a little more user friendly at startup.
  • Would like to have more support from the software customer service to see how we can use it in different departments within our company.
  • Better short-cut keys for quicker tasks.

Return on Investment

  • Savings in time.
  • Savings in human error mistakes.
  • Ability to organize information fairly easy for internal tracking purposes.

Alternatives Considered

Excel

Other Software Used

Bluebeam Revu

Quick win!

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Engineering (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • We can put together assemblies that give a true representation of our costs.
  • It allows us to dial in markups in certain areas and in the project overall.

Cons

  • Being able to simplify reports once estimate is complete.
  • Being able to edit assemblies with an entry level user.

Return on Investment

  • It's suited us very well for what we need and what we're looking for in an estimating software.
  • We're carrying a 15% hit ratio on all work priced with this software

Alternatives Considered

ProEst Estimating Software

Other Software Used

Bluebeam Revu, Spectrum, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office 2016