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The High Cost of Low Bids: When Contractors Compete on Price, Everyone Loses

Levelset

Prioritizing a low bid over contractor performance is a lose-lose procurement strategy. Unfortunately, low bidding is an accepted practice for both owners and contractors alike. Owners will say that focusing on the lowest bid possible ensures they get a good price. Who’s responsible for low-bid procurement?

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Data Analytics Trends in Construction

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Construction sites these days have no shortage of data: design and BIM data from the planning stages of a project, jobsite data collected by wearables, mobile devices and sensors on equipment/materials, accounting and job progress data from the office, project management data and much more. Bidding Smarter and Winning More Work.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

I know a lot of contractors are getting into bidding season, and this got me thinking about communication. Although email and mobile technologies have made communication easier, they haven’t solved all of our problems. If you’re a general contractor, you may send out an invitation to bid via email, fax, online notifications, etc.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

In addition to providing critical insight to a bid, tender or proposal, the theoretical “buy-in” to the process from the field manager is invaluable. Rather than learning about the project in a “drive by” data dump hours before mobilization, the superintendent has becomes an instrumental cog in the preconstruction planning process.

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Winning Innovation Strategies for Plumbing Contractors

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The bidding process is one of the most time-consuming and critical to ensure cash flow and steady work. Tracking multiple bids and invitations to bid requires a great deal of coordination, collaboration and management. Silos and disparate systems make it difficult to monitor these bids effectively. .

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40+ Fresh Product Releases You Should Know in January

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Additionally, project members can add a delete reasoning comment on web and mobile. Correspondence | View and Add References on iOS [Coming Soon]** – To improve visibility of critical project information, iOS Mobile users can now view and add project references to their correspondence.

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Top ten software for estimating and bidding

Construction Cost Estimating

Sage facilitates you to produce bids rapidly, precisely and positively with takeoff and cost databases. As soon as the project is procured, estimate details flow automatically into Sage business management software, removing unnecessary tasks and data entry errors. Besides, customized reports can also be generated.

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