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DD# 82: Cost Coding to Project Bid Items

Cassell Construction Estimating

Discussing job cost coding with some of our self-performing contractor clients, we sometimes hear that they often use the Owner’s Project Bid Items as a simple and useful structure for cost coding their work on the project. I remember going into a construction office in Montana, and asking how they tracked their labor. Barry Cassell.

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Is a National General Contractor or Local Commercial Construction Firm Better For Your Project?

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Like many of you, we spent the summer enjoying our country’s beautiful landscapes – from the badlands in the Dakotas to the mountains of Montana. Office construction, shopping center development and commercial landlord work are disciplines where it makes sense to seek bids from local construction firms. What’s your project?

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Commitment to process

Cassell Construction Estimating

The trends of the last quarter are continuing – decreasing profit margins, more bidders on every job, and at times companies bidding what appears to be downright foolishly. Now they’re taking the time to go back and re-tool, to maintain the sharp edge on their estimating and project management systems. We’re staying busy.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: A Savings Analysis!

Rory Woolsey

Ed Carrigan asked: “Do you believe there is a savings between JOC program and a bidding process (design-bid-build)?” For multi-trade repair and improvement type projects, Job Order Contracting will win out on a savings analysis over design-bid-build. ” Thanks for the question, Ed.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Just Trust Me!

Rory Woolsey

Low Bid; Best Bid: Historically facility managers have had their hands tied with acquisition regulations that required the award of projects to the lowest bidding contractor. Too often the low bid winner would prove to be the contractor that made the most mistakes in their bid. Follow by Email. The WAG Way!!

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7 Tips for Aligning Your Project Management Workflows & Construction Technology

Construction Business Owner

7 Tips for Aligning Your Project Management Workflows & Construction Technology How to achieve the best possible project management — and how an integrated, cloud-based construction software solution can help mhodges Wed, 08/30/2023 - 09:38 Effectively managing today’s construction projects can be a complex, exhaustive process.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Scope, Scope, Scope!!!

Rory Woolsey

All contractors have faced this at one time or another where they were low bid on a project and learn as the job unfolds why they were low bid. Rory Woolsey has worked in Management and Engineering for the construction industry for 35 years, starting as a construction laborer in Billings, Montana, in 1972. The WAG Way!!