The Prime Bid Presentation 18 tabs = bid packages Roofing is selected. Roofing has 8 sections and 11 bidders + yourself. 2 subs are excluded. 4 subs + you = lowest Roofing number. There were 480 possible solutions. You have 17 bid pkgs to go.

What is Bidding Software? On bid day, it’s a systematic way to collect supplier quotes and sub’s bids and quickly determine the lowest reasonable bid amount for outside work. Giving you more time to tweak the variables and generate a solid bid.

Who Uses Prime Bid? If you generate competitive bids, if you bid on projects over $250K, if you want to take your best shot when you write your final number down, then YOU should be using Prime Bid.

What Exactly Does Prime Bid Do? As you are entering bid quotes, Prime Bid will instantaneously find and highlight the mix of single and combination bids that gives you the lowest possible bid for each bid package.

How Will I Use Prime Bid? Prime Bid's simple spreadsheet-like Windows interface will have you quickly generating the best- analyzed bids you have ever prepared. You can submit bids out of Prime Bid with complete confidence.

Multi-User Prime Bid With the multi-user version of Prime Bid multiple people can be working together on bid day to enter and analyze bids from multiple machines. Users are given rights to input unique sets of bids, but all users can view the entire bid.

Multi-User Prime Bid Remove the bottleneck encountered by using only one computer to process your bid. With Prime Bid a team can input and review the bid allowing for that all-too-common flood of last minute bids to be added.

Am I Forced to Use the Lowest Bidder? Prime Bid gives you the option to Exclude selected subcontractors (red highlight) or Require certain subcontractors. The software will always indicate Best Solution vs. Accepted Solution to show you the difference in cost

Displaying the Bid with filters Once all of the bids have been input, you can display the solutions in several ways (filters). This filter shows you the bid packages in numerical order with the “winning” Subcontractor’s totals and the totals for each bid package.

Completing the Bid in the Summary Page The summary page is setup to calculate indirect costs, overhead & profit, step rate bonds, insurance costs, and state sales tax. A handy sixteen division summary displays to show you the overall picture.

Alternates – Matrix View Imagine entering alternate bids at the same time as base bids. Tabs for the base bid and alternates are below the matrix. A red diamond displays on the tab that you are currently viewing. This view is of the Drywall matrix Base Bid.

Alternates Analysis The Alternates Analysis window displays the low base bidders and the low alternates bidders.

Alternates Analysis Press the Require Bids in Alternates button to require the low base bidders and display the change in cost.

Alternates – Table View There is a convenient tabular window that displays the total bid amount for the base bid and all of the alternates.

Printing the Bid You can customize the printout of the bid by selecting the filter (report) to be printed from the sections spreadsheet. Print preview is available for verification before printing your report.

Importing and Exporting Information The costs from your estimating software can be imported into Prime Bid to start the bid day setup process. All of the information from the bid can be exported to a txt file and used with other software.

Prime Bid, A Bidding Software Solution For You Prime Bid is the only Windows based bidding software available today. And in today’s competitive bid marketplace you need every advantage you can get. Get that advantage with Prime Bid.  Prime Bid’s spreadsheet interface is easy to learn – only one day required  Prime Bid is structured for fast bid input and analysis in tight time frames  Prime Bid has all the algorithms to find the lowest solution pre-built  Prime Bid integrates with your existing cost estimating software  Prime Bid organizes your bid to eliminate typical errors on bid day  Prime Bid gives you more time to analyze and implement your competitive strategy  Download a demonstration version from this internet site to see for yourself Download  Call us for an internet demonstration of the software –  On-line or on-site training available to suit your needs  Prime Bid will help you compete with confidence against other less prepared bidders