#1 most frequent
United States of America
84.6%856 installations of 1,012
What is Trimble Accubid?
Trimble Accubid Classic is an electrical estimating solution for construction, that facilitates the construction workflow from estimating to purchasing, project management, and billing. The more recently released Trimble Accubid Anywhere provides estimating, change management, and pricing in a cloud service subscription.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses Trimble Accubid
#2 most frequent
Canada
11.1%112 installations of 1,012
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1.3%13 installations of 1,012
Trimble Accubid -- Money saver
Pros
- Depth of customization
- Intergrations
- Industry specific
Cons
- High barrier to entry
- Low ease of use / Time-consuming
Return on Investment
- After completing a lot of training, this software can easily allow a lower-skilled employee to set everything up for review.
- Reduced time for bid reviews as key indicators are easy to review
- Ability to review old bids to ensure project delivery
Other Software Used
OneNote, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams, Todoist, Prophix, Bluebeam Revu, Zoom, Skype for Business (formerly Lync)
Accubid Electrical Estimating Software Wins Again
Pros
- Provides accurate NECA labor units for materials.
- Keeps accurate costs of materials through regular updates.
Cons
- Needs to update a data base for new emerging markets in energy.
- Separation of some supporting materials into more relevant categories would eliminate number of required click through actions.
Return on Investment
- Accubid allows for accurate pricing of electrical estimates.
- Accubid's accurate pricing allows for more competitive bid estimates.
Alternatives Considered
McCormick Estimating Software and ViewPoint ProContractor
Other Software Used
Viewpoint Spectrum, ViewPoint ProContractor, Microsoft Teams
From an electrical estimator's perspective
Pros
- Allows for fine control of inputs and variables.
- Gives a multitude of ways to analyze data.
Cons
- While the tools provided are great, there could be more to allow more imaginative users to build their own.
- The user interface is old and clunky.
Return on Investment
- Helps produce more accurate estimates.
- Allows us to break scopes out without having to re-perform an estimate.
Other Software Used
Bluebeam Revu
Accubid, the tried and true no frills solution
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The product is used to estimate in a systematic manner new construction and larger remodel projects for our organization. It also allows us to manage the job, post construction by having detailed budgets for our projects that are broken out in bite size pieces for us to handle. The main use case is for new construction however.
Pros
- Material estimating
- Labor estimating
- Aggregating vendor quotes
- Budgeting estimated Gross Margin for a job
Cons
- The user interface for adding assemblies to a job
- Material database management
- Doesn't integrate well with any other platforms other than their own.
Return on Investment
- reduced estimating cost vs pen and paper
- because it's a widely used platform it's easy to recruit estimators to the platform
- works well in a multi estimator environment
Other Software Used
PlanGrid, Procore, eSUB Construction Software