Introducing The Steel Erection Bid Wizard
Only Software On Market Created For Steel Erectors By A Steel Erector
Reduce the time it takes to estimate by 50% or more
Steel Erection Bid Wizard uses more than 300 built-in task formulas to make estimation a snap… Get immediate estimates of your costs—including labor, cranes, welders, fuel and equipment.
The result:
- Faster estimates
- More accurate pricing
- Reduced manual entry
SEBW has 304 steel erection tasks under the hood, with tested and proven formulas attached to each one… After doing takeoffs, simply enter the piece count, linear foot or square foot of any one of these tasks and get an immediate price!
You can trust the numbers
We’ve put years of knowledge into SEBW, drawing on real-world experience to calculate how long it takes a crew of professional ironworkers to perform each of the tasks in the program.
But here’s the best part—if you find that our calculations don’t match with yours, simply adjust production rates to fit your company!
Customize to your heart's content
Add as many tasks as you want. Enter your equipment costs, fuel costs, wages, fringes, tax burden, Workman's Compensation Average, General Liability, subsistence, mark-up and more… If you'd like you can even adjust the time it takes to complete tasks.
Integrate with takeoff software-or do takeoff by hand-then sit back
Export takeoff information from software like FabSuite or On-Screen Takeoff and then input the size of your crew. SEBW immediately returns the cost for your project… Your cost.
Submit your bid with confidence-and peace of mind
Export your estimate with your GC info—including standard language and exclusions—for easy printing or emailing. Estimate in a fraction of the time… knowing your bid is perfectly accurate.
"Steel Estimator's Dream Come True"
You’ll be amazed at how competitive SEBW can make you—and the comfort it gives you when you know that everything in the bid is accounted for.
Here's a Quick Tour Of The Steel Erection Bid Wizard Many Benefits
View It All On a Dashboard
When you open Steel Erection Bid Wizard you’ll see your dashboard—a list of all your bids and dollar amounts at a glance. Every project that has been activated inside Project Management Wizard will be shown, along with easy-to-read completion percentages.
You’ll also see all the General Contractors you have uploaded into system, with their contact information at your fingertips. Access training here too, as well as tips and tricks.
Customize Everything
Bid Wizard is fully customizable for your company. Don’t like the terminology for the tasks that are preloaded? Change whatever you want!
Want to add additional tasks? Simply add them and attach production rates to them.
SEBW is very flexible, and 100% control—meaning you can easily tailor it to your company’s specific needs.
Easily Adjust Production Rates
Easy-to-adjust production rates… And a simple-to-use price check on your end.
It’s never been easier to dial in your company’s own unique abilities, and make SEBW price your bids the exact way you need to for your crews’ experience.
Don’t get us wrong… Our extensive experience in the steel erection industry means your production rates will be very close out of the box. But if you find they’re a little bit off, rest assured—you’ll have the flexibility to make SEBW your own!
Generate Powerful Reports
Create reports the way you want to see them. Track precise data on all projects and smile as you laser in on future bids.
Need an SOV? Yours will be broken out by area or floors. Need to see projected costs around Workman’s Compensation, fringes, general liability and Tax Burden? You’ll have those too.
Keep a GC Database
And One-Touch Proposals
How many GCs do you bid on bid day for the same projects? If you’re like some companies, that could be up to six or more.
What if you could enter all your GCs into the system—once—and then simply select which ones you want a proposal created for? You can. SEBW will create them to PDF for you so you can fax or email them out.
Not only that, you can adjust percentage up or down for each GC, in case you give some GCs a better price than others.
All this with just a couple clicks of the mouse.
Calculate Overtime
Overtime? No problem. SEBW will calculate it for you—just tell it what you’re working and the premium cost.
Being able to see exactly the effect that overtime has on cost and schedule is truly a benefit that becomes very useful when trying to get tight on a bid. In many cases it can decide if you win or lose the bid.
Price By Area/Floor
You can price by area or floor—and have reporting broken out the same way. Or you can have a lump some bid created… The choice is yours.
Weather Projections
Weather Projections will give you the potential days lost per month due to weather. You simply select state project is located and start date project is projected to start, system will then perform calculations, based on 25 years worth of data pulled from weatherbase.com that will calculate the potential weather days, for time period selected.
It will calculate dollar amount based on crew size to cover lost production due to weather. You can choose to add to your bid or just use as knowledge. Weather can play a big part in profitability of a project, the Weather Projection feature in the Bid Wizard allows you to account of weather quickly and accurately.
Smart Fuel Calculator
As we all know fuel is a huge expense in projects we bid. The Smart Fuel Calculator calculates fuel usage by all equipment entered in bid based on the manufactures burn fuel rate per hour, Bid Wizard will calculate how many days/weeks/months equipment will be on site and convert that calculation to hours, then figure a per day fuel cost for all equipment on project. This allows you a quick and accurate way to get a dollar amount in your bid that covers the cost of fuel.
These burn fuel rates per hour are already defaulted in the system for the equipment that is defaulted in the Steel Erection Bid Wizard. Of course you have the power to change these rates as well as listed equipment.
