Cassell Construction Estimating

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Timberline Estimating Training – Bid Day Emergency – File Won’t Open I had an urgent support call recently from one of our Montana contractors who use Timberline Estimating. Here’s the scenario: It’s Bid Day, getting down to the last hour before the bid is due.

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Construction Business Owner

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Track project data to improve bidding and project management. Join speakers David Pimiskern, head of customer success at Bridgit, and Shawn Gallant, vice president of corporate development at Columbia, as they discuss how to manage with less by learning how you can: Build stronger project teams using insights into your workforce .

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Construction Business Owner

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Join Autodesk, Swinerton, PARIC and OpenSpace to learn about resources and best practices that help construction companies succeed on important items such as inspections, permitting, reporting, bids and submissions with technology. Can’t attend the webinar? Register now and listen later. We’ll send you a link to the playback.

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Cassell Construction Estimating

JUNE 4, 2009

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. We have smaller projects going with Martel in Montana and Arita Poulson in Hawaii.

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HardHatChat

AUGUST 21, 2012

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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Construction Business Owner

OCTOBER 1, 2020

federal, state, municipalities) requires the ability to provide bid, performance and payment bonds. The answer, actually, is a lot. Working with a reputable surety provides you with more opportunities. Work for public entities (i.e., Having the support of a surety gains you access to that world of opportunities.

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Construction Business Owner

OCTOBER 1, 2020

federal, state, municipalities) requires the ability to provide bid, performance and payment bonds. The answer, actually, is a lot. Working with a reputable surety provides you with more opportunities. Work for public entities (i.e., Having the support of a surety gains you access to that world of opportunities.

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Cassell Construction Estimating

MARCH 26, 2009

March finds the bid market slowing in many areas, but holding its own in a few areas. However some of our clientele reports that it’s still possible to bid a job with some profit, and actually get awarded the job. Job prices continue to plummet as marginal contracting firms fight for survival.

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Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

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

MARCH 10, 2012

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.

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Rory Woolsey

JANUARY 30, 2012

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.

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Rory Woolsey

MARCH 20, 2012

Successful "hard bid" contractors know very well that scoping construction goes well beyond the AE scope and must include field specific scope. Competitive bidding contractors will get their unit costs from subcontractors, vendors, suppliers, and their own cost records.

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Rory Woolsey

APRIL 24, 2012

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.

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Rory Woolsey

APRIL 4, 2012

The first crisis will occur when the contractor bids are greater than the budget estimate. Published construction cost data is also very helpful for budgetary estimating and for checks and balances in bidding. It is here that you can ask the customer to cut scope or return to the funding source and ask for more money. Woolsey, MBA.

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ENR Construction

JULY 23, 2012

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Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Double Check Phase: All good cost estimates are checked and double checked prior to establishing it as the project budget or bid price for a project. 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.

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Rory Woolsey

MAY 31, 2012

Estimate Contingency: Defining and capturing the scope of work is the key to accuracy in estimating (and bidding) projects (particularly with renovation projects). 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.

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Rory Woolsey

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

This week the blog topic is on “Negotiating” unit price line items taken from national estimating guides on competitively bid contracts that are publically funded and subject to audits. You read it right. Sound exciting… it is!

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