Training & Videos

Sample Exercise

The following sample exercise will take you through the process of completing a bid using Prime Bid software. The bid in this example was for the Tacoma Community College Student Center and was created in May 1999. The completed bid for this sample exercise is located on your computer in the Current Bids folder and is named TCC Student Center.bid.

Download the sample exercise (.doc) (Right Click → Save As)

Basic Training Video

The listed topics are the step-by-step outline for the sample exercise. We strongly recommend that you have a printed copy of the exercise ready, as the demo will be referring to this document.

  1. Topic 1: Creating a New Bid from the Project Plan Information
  2. Topic 2: Entering the Sections for the Bid in the Sections Spreadsheet
  3. Topic 3: Placing the Preliminary Pricing onto the Sections Spreadsheet
  4. Topic 4: Inserting Markup, Bonding, Insurance Taxes for the Bid
  5. Topic 5: Setting Up the Solution Matrices
  6. Topic 6: Inputting the Subcontractor Bids Into the Matrices
  7. Topic 7: Analyzing a Complete Bid
  8. Topic 8: Adding an Alternate and Performing the Alternate Analysis

Advanced Training Video

The Prime Bid advanced training consists of five movie sessions. Each session demonstrates capabilities within Prime Bid.

  1. Session 1: Preparing and Using a Bid Template
  2. Session 2: Importing Information Into Prime Bid
  3. Session 3: Working with Filters and User Defined Fields
  4. Session 4: Setting up Sophisticated Matrices
  5. Session 5: Setting up and Analyzing Alternates

We Value Customer Feedback

Prime Bid is customer-driven software. It is a tool specifically designed by general contractors to optimize results on bid day to produce the best lowest number.

Our goal is to make this the most useful piece of software for our customers and so we work with them and utilize suggestions for feature enhancements. In the past two versions of our software there have been over 80 customer suggested improvements.