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Bid Tabs Pro is a private company software program using data from EBASE that generates reports or queries. Great flexibility is built into this software. Queries can be by contractor, quantity, county, bid letting dates, and many others. This data is mostly used as a cost estimating source.
This program is available to all WSDOT employees. For installation contact your Region IT representative or Headquarters IT Help Desk.
Once the Bid Tabs Pro Program is loaded on your PC you need to update the weekly bid histories .
Use the Data Update in your Bids Tabs application to download the most current data for Bid Analysis.
New Data Posted and available for download:
May 22nd, 2008
Bid Tabs Pro Plus Program - Add on Module
A companion product to BidTabs Professional, BidTabs PLUS is add-on module (program) allowing you to set up a spreadsheet of pay items with multiple columns of prices. You can import the pay item data for an upcoming job from an electronic format such as Expedite or Excel and then load pay item prices (averages) from BidTabs Professional in four different columns. The pay item averages are based on parameters defined by the user, such as state average prices in a county or region, a competitor's prices and many others. By viewing what past prices have been for pay items, a user can very quickly determine approximate project size and get a feel for average prices or competitors prices for an upcoming job. Manual for Bid Tabs Plus
Program Highlights
Import Data – Easily import pay item data from a DOT bid disk or from a spreadsheet file, or pick pay items (batch load) from a master database or add pay items one at a time.
Quantity Parameters – When loading averages for all pay items you can enter a quantity percentage over/under the current project quantity that the system will use when calculating pay item averages. You can also enter project size ranges to calculate lump sum items.
Specific Pay Item – When loading averages for specific pay items you can quickly view all items that make up the average price for a pay item. You then have the ability to "dial in" the weighted average by excluding specific prices that you feel are too low or too high and may skew the price.
Category Totals – Easily create and display subtotals for each category of work. Quickly break down and review each category of work for a more in-depth understanding of work to be performed.
Reports – Compare different pricing scenario for any project or print a listing of pay items falling outside user-defined parameters.
Show Records Found – Display the number of records that were found when calculating the average price for each pay item based on the criteria that you set.
Import/Export – Import and export pay item data from and to other programs and files including Expedite and spreadsheet files.
Metric Conversion – Easily switch between English and Metric units of measure at any time.