Cost Plus Estimating - Bidding

These are a few examples of the reports available to your company. There are many variations on these and other reports too numerous to display each of them here. 

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Unique program functions are needed to be able to create a bid on a project. It is good to be able to quickly create a standard price on a project but what about creating a construction bid. There are several bidding theories that help you determine what your pricing should be for project. The usually revolve around creating first knowing your costs then applying overhead and profit factors to the costs. ActiveApplications uses Price Factors for this type of a proposal. Displayed is a proposal with the Price factors displayed. Notice the price of the proposal. 

Select the Price Factors Option and check both the Apply to all of estimate and Apply as Cost Plus Pricing options. 

The factors keyed will multiply the cost of each item times the factors. Some bidding theories save that if you have an overhead of 40% and you wish to make a profit of 30% then you multiply the cost by 1.4 then by 1.3 or a total factor of 1.82. Bidding theory will not be discussed here. A different factor can be used for each of the item types. 

The results can vary significantly from standard pricing.

UDS follows several guidelines when designing reports. The amount of information that must be displayed determines the size of the report. If the necessary information can be displayed in portrait on your paper size it will. A smaller font size will be used until the type would be unreadable if made smaller. If the necessary information is too wide to fit portrait the computer will switch to landscape mode. If the required information is still too wide legal paper (8 by 14 inches) will automatically be selected in the printer. Your printer and print driver will determine how the commands are handled by your system. UDS makes it easy for you to get the information you must have.

The report samples displayed in these examples are captured directly from the report program that generates the report. Built into every UDS report is the ability to view it on the screen or place the report directly into Word or Excel format if those applications are available on your computer. Export it into one of several other file formats is available, too. 

Easy integration into Microsoft Office is a priority with UDS programming staff. You will be more productive when using Active Applications because of the Office integration features. 

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