What People are Saying About Prime Bid
Branco Enterprises
"We use Prime Bid to get the best number for our company on bid day. Our company enjoys the found in Prime Bid since no two jobs are the same for us. We have found a new level of since we implemented Prime Bid." — Branco Enterprises, Brian Lechner
Fenix Constructors
Fenix Constructors, Inc. works with Prime Software to enhance and improve Prime Bid.
"Here at Fenix Constructors we spent a long time searching for a software application would help us process our bid day needs. We wanted additional features in the software," Mike O\'Rourke. "The folks at Prime Software listened to our requests and those suggestions showed up in the software. We need the flexibility and capabilities that Prime Bid offers us. — Fenix Constructors, Inc., Mike O'Rourke"
Gerald Martin General Contractors
We participate full-time in the public and private competitive bid market in New Mexico. We jobs from $2 million to $50+ million. Most public jobs are burdened with any number of. Also, New Mexico law requires that all subcontracts over 0.5% of the bid be listed part of our bid form.
Prime Bid affords the opportunity for multiple estimators to work on the same bid. They are working in a live estimate, giving us immediate updates as last bids are received. "We have to complete the bid total, provide a list of subs and have alternates together all at the same time" says Steve Collins, "Prime Bid allows us to accomplish tasks in an organized fashion." — Gerald A. Martin, Ltd., Steve Collins
Hayner Hoyt Construction
HHC had been preparing competitive bids using a standard spreadsheet to add up the numbers. HHC bids jobs of all sizes. Now using Prime Bid, HHC has a handle on the scope of the sub bids and compare bids in an organized system that allows them to know that the bid is complete with costs every section.
Brian's boss wants to know the score at several times during the processing of the bid. His questions the scope of the sub bids and the completeness of the bid are answered on the matrix recap filter. Before we had to dig around in the faxes to answer the owner\'s questions, now we just zero in on the he's looking at and he can answer his question by looking at the screen," says Brian. "We have a new level of communication on bid day, we have gone from chaos to determined purpose." — Hayner Hoyt Corporation, Brian Kenney
L & L Builders Co.
"Shortly after our initial training we began using Prime Bid to bid jobs at a basic level," says Dana Rand. After gaining some experience we implemented the more sophisticated features that help us bid the more bid documents. The developer of Prime Bid listened to our suggestions and changed the software meet the bid document requirements that we really benefit from." — L&L Builders, Dana Rand
LFC
LFC has prepared competitive bids for over 30 years in the $5 million to $15 million job range. Using Bid, the LFC team now divides up the bid input and the bid analysis on several machines thus eliminating bottleneck of inputting bids into one machine.
The multi-user aspect of Prime Bid allows LFC to have several people in the bid at one time; this allows to spend more time managing the bid, while the other team members are cramming sub bids into machines. Everyone is contributing to completing the bid. "This is a whole new ball game where I do overview and get the information about who, what and where the solutions are coming from," says Mark. This new capability is of a great benefit to us." — Leo Finnegan Construction, Mark Hoffman
Lincoln Builders
"Each Bid that we approach is unique, Prime Bid is flexible enough to fit the jobs that we bid and still gives a structure to work within," says Dan Morrow.
"Our team is able to process the bids on bid day to give us the competitive advantage that we need in the bid market." — Lincoln Builders, Dan Morrow
Lou Liberti
Lou Liberti finds that the organization of bid sections in a matrix allow him to efficiently analyze single section and lump sum bids to come to the best possible solution. "I find the bid analysis process difficult enough do on paper, paper systems drive me nuts when I need the number NOW," says Lou. "Prime Bid gives me the for the low solution every time I input a bid. This has tremendous value to me."
Lou values the calculations that Prime Bid provides, since they help him to sharpen his pencil and bid as as possible. Lou says, "You've got to have the right tool to get the job done, Prime Bid is the right for preparing a competitive bid." — Lou Liberti
Mid-States
"Here at Mid-States the team that assembles our bid was able to use Prime Bid within one week of getting it," Gary Sebens. "To me that is the definition of user friendly software. We process our bid now with an easier to get a more sophisticated result." — Mid States Construction, Gary Sebens
Spectrum Contracting
"We bought the software on Friday and won our first bid the following Thursday," Don Tucker. "The about it was that we were 1/4 of 1% low on an 18 million dollar job! Prime Bid has made us razor sharp in our day process." — Spectrum Contracting, Don Tucker
Story Construction
"I have found Prime Bid to be a great bid day tool," says Mark Kutchen. "The computer can solve for mathematical solutions for the bid packages (matrices) so much faster than I can that I found more time to the quality of the sub bids to make the important judgment calls that make or break our bids." — Story Construction, Mark Kutchen
Crowe Group Inc.
"We integrated our estimating software with Prime Bid to transfer the costs from our detailed estimate into Prime Bid spreadsheet," says Tim Crowe. "Of course we bought Prime Bid for the power of the bid matrices assembling a bid on bid day, Prime Bid has made a difference in the quality and reliability of our bid numbers." — The Crowe Group, Timothy Crowe
Walsh Construction
"I approach a competitive bid with all of the information that I can get together before bid day," says Chuck Holcom. With Prime Bid, I am able to bid with confidence, knowing that there are no math errors and all of my judgment calls are. The Prime Bid systematic method helps me get all of the value out of my preparation without any waste of or effort." — Walsh Construction, Chuck Holcom
Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation was looking for a way to tighten up their bidding process and their bids. They invested 120 hours custom programming an Excel spreadsheet, but it never completely provided them the solution they were looking for.
Then Waters Corporation discovered Prime Bid. One of their first observations was that Prime Bid was going to be a cost savings over custom programming. As Waters Corp. began to successfully generate bids they also found that advantage Prime Bid offered was its structured architecture. Mark Waters says "Prime Bid's structured approach setting up sections of work and bid packages makes me spend focused time on each bid. That investment pays off bid day as I have a great grasp of the scope of work and a clear set of expectations to measure progress." — Waters Corporation, Mark Waters
