B2W ESTIMATE

B2W Estimate provides centralized cost data and structures along with

specialized functionality for heavy civil construction estimating and

bidding. Leveraging the intuitive, easy-to-use application, companies

maximize accuracy and speed, standardize estimating processes, focus

more attention on strategy and win more bids at better margins.

WIN MORE BIDS AT BETTER MARGINS

• Central database with up-to-date labor, tasks, materials and equipment costs

• Specialized functionality for creating bids from databases, templates and

cost structures

• Easy to learn and deploy, with familiar, intuitive user interfaces and construction

estimating logic

• Scalable, enterprise-class performance

B2W Software empowers and

inspires heavy civil construction

companies to win more work and

complete it more proﬁtably. The

company’s ONE Platform connects

resources, workﬂows and data

and includes advanced, uniﬁed

elements to manage estimating,

scheduling, ﬁeld tracking,

equipment maintenance, data

capture and business intelligence.

B2W ESTIMATE

ESTIMATING & BIDDING

Features Overview

FEATURE

Shared License

Pool

Multiple Database

Support

Advanced Estimate

Security

B2W Management

Reporting

Review Historical

Changes with the

Audit Trail

A shared license pool allows one set of licenses to

be shared among all users tying into a particular

server, even if they are using dierent Resources/

Estimate databases.

Support for multiple databases on a single server

allows support for multiple regions or corporate

divisions without purchasing additional hardware.

Assigning permissions to user groups allows

control over creation, modiﬁcation and deletion

of estimates.

The browser-based B2W Management Reporting

allows you to run powerful business intelligence

reports, across all the estimates in your database,

or even multiple databases. See your average

cost for materials over the past year, see the win-

loss ratio of your estimates and your margins over

time. Also, subscribe to reports for automatic

e-mail distribution on a deﬁned daily, weekly, or

monthly schedule.

The audit trail capabilities within B2W Estimate

allow you to review a detailed history of changes

made within each estimate. B2W Estimate tracks

the date and time when components are added to,

modiﬁed or deleted from an estimate, and records

the name of the user who made the changes.

When values such as unit costs or production rates

are modiﬁed—either at the component level or via

global edits— B2W Estimate records the previous

values, creating a detailed event log for each

portion of your estimate.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

General

B2W Estimate may be purchased in one of three editions (Basic, Professional, and Enterprise) depending on your

company’s needs.

0118

FEATURE

Saved Displays

Tags

B2W Mobile

Estimating

User-based

Security

Estimate Folders

Save your display conﬁguration settings on the

Item Listing, Estimate Detail, and Item Pricing

grids. Create as many Saved Displays as you

need. Share Saved Displays with the other B2W

Estimate users. Recall existing Saved Displays by

selecting them from a convenient drop-down list.

Create an unlimited number of tags which may

be assigned to Resources, Item Templates, and

items and cost components within an estimate.

Estimate items and components may be grouped

or ﬁltered by their tag values, and as an added

bonus, items appearing on the private bid form

may also be grouped and subtotaled by their tag

values. Since this is a user deﬁned feature, you

can create as many tags as needed with relevant

names for your requirements.

B2W Mobile Estimating allows estimators to

disconnect from the oce server and continue to

use the program on the road. You can check out

estimates, still have access to all your resources

and items, and make new estimates. When

you return to the oce simply re-connect and

estimates you created while disconnected are

added to the server. B2W Mobile Estimating is

ideal for companies that want the ﬂexibility to

work on the road, or to download the bid locally

from a remote server for closing during bid day.

Assigning permissions to user groups allows

control over creation, modiﬁcation and deletion

of information throughout resources and Item

Databases. This gives the administrator complete

control over which users may modify information.

The ability to create estimate folders not only

allows for better organization and quicker

estimate lookup, but also sets the stage for B2W

Estimate’s advanced estimate security features.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

0118

FEATURE

File Attachments

Find & Replace

Undo Deletions

Archive Estimates

Conditional

Formatting

Attaching ﬁles directly to your estimate means

that important documents – such as project

speciﬁcations, blueprints, or jobsite photos – are

always at your ﬁngertips. You can also attach

links to external information such as a link to a ﬁle

somewhere on the network, a link to a folder, or

even a link that brings you to a website.

B2W Estimate allows you to locate and

step through all instances of a speciﬁc cost

component throughout your current estimate.

Labor, equipment, materials and miscellaneous

cost components may be replaced with a

dierent cost component of the same type –

either all at once or one at a time – throughout

your current estimate. In addition to ﬁnding/

replacing cost components throughout your

entire estimate, B2W Estimate’s Find and Replace

feature also works within smaller portions of your

estimate. For example, you could perform a ﬁnd

and replace operation within a speciﬁc work type

or phase, or even within a speciﬁc bid item.

B2W Estimate allows you to restore recently

deleted data such as estimate items, tasks or

even entire estimates.

Older estimates may be removed from your B2W

Estimate database and archived within a separate

SQL database, allowing for better use of storage

space, organization, and performance.

B2W Estimate allows you to create one or more

rules which alter the appearance of speciﬁc rows

on the Item Listing or Item Pricing tabs based on

criteria that you specify on a per-rule basis. For

example, you might want to do one or more of

the following: Use a special background color for

items with a speciﬁc work type. Use bold font for

items without an assigned subcontractor. Use red

font for items with a markup % of less than 3%.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

0118

FEATURE

Support For

Windows Regional

Settings

The currency, date, time and number formatting

for the selected Windows locale is applied to all

values in B2W Estimate, including the appropriate

currency symbol for currency values. This

formatting information is used both on-screen

and in reports.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Integrated

Windows Security

Administration

Tool

Online Banking

High Availability

Installations

Microsoft SQL

Server Included

for Up to 10 Users

Each user account may be tagged with a

Windows domain account, allowing automatic

user authentication without seeing a login screen

at program startup. This prevents users from

having to remember yet another user name and

password, while preventing unauthorized users

from accessing the estimating system.

A separate administration application allows

the administrator to conﬁgure user and

group account information and view licensing

information without consuming a user license.

Microsoft SQL Server’s online backup

functionality allows a system administrator to

backup the B2W databases even when estimators

are using the application.

Microsoft SQL Server’s support for high

availability conﬁgurations — including failover

clustering, backup servers, log shipping, etc.

— allows system administrators to enhance the

reliability of the B2W Estimate server based on

your company’s requirements.

The installation program automatically installs

and conﬁgures Microsoft SQL Server Express

Edition if conﬁguring a server for ten users or

less, preventing you from having to purchase

Microsoft SQL Server for smaller installations.

0118

FEATURE

Easy Terminal

Services/Citrix

Installation

The installation program conﬁgures B2W

Estimate for all Terminal Services users, placing

an icon on their desktop, without any further

steps necessary to make the application available

to each user.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Recently Opened

Estimate List

Open Multiple

Estimates

Roam User

Settings

Extensive Online

Reference

Information

Client/Server

Architecture

Microsoft Design

Standards

B2W Estimate displays the last eight estimates

you’ve opened on the Home Page, as well as the

File menu. This allows you quick access to the

recent estimates you’ve opened in a way that’s

familiar to all Microsoft Oce users.

Open more than one B2W Estimate window at

the same time: view Resources and an estimate,

multiple estimates, or even multiple views of the

same estimate all at once with the use of only

one license.

User interface settings — such as dialog size and

location, decimal place settings, etc. — are stored

within each user account on the B2W Estimate

server. This allows these settings to “roam” with

the user, regardless of which computer they use

to log on.

B2W Estimate includes complete reference

information in its online help system. Click

the Help button or press F1 anywhere in the

application to see detailed reference information.

B2W Estimate was designed from the ground up

to take advantage of the very latest development

tools from Microsoft — .NET and SQL Server.

This gives you the very best in performance,

functionality and scalability.

The user interface adheres to the guidelines for

user interface design contained in the Microsoft

Windows design guide. This means B2W Estimate

has the same look and feel as the Microsoft Oce

applications you’re used to.

0118

FEATURE

Open Estimate

Dialog

The Open Estimate Dialog lists all estimates in

your B2W database. Filter by Estimator, Estimate

Status, Primary Customer and Estimate Type.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Spellcheck

Bid Schedules

Eciency Factors

Custom Properties

in Estimates

Import Bid

Schedules

Copy and Paste

Components in

an Estimate

Remember User

Settings in

the Add

Components Dialog

You can check the spelling of items, tasks, WBS

levels and other cost components as well as text

that appears on the bid form and RFQs using the

new spell check functionality.

Capture information for bids that you may choose

to estimate. Includes a Bid Schedule Calendar.

Convert bid schedules to estimates. New

estimates will be populated with the bid schedule

information ﬁelds you ﬁlled out.

Use Eciency Factors to retain historical crew

production rates as part of your estimating

process and gauge how quickly a crew can

complete an assigned task.

Deﬁne your own custom properties and add

them to a form (template) and conﬁgure however

you choose. Gather speciﬁc information for an

estimate, such as email addresses and phone

numbers, checklists for tracking completion of

tasks, projected costs, and more.

Import multiple bid schedules from an Excel ﬁle

rather than entering them by hand.

Use the CTRL-C and CTRL-V or options on

the right-click menu to copy and paste cost

components to new locations.

Sorting and ﬁltering selections made in the Add

Components dialog in an estimate are saved on

a per-user basis, whether the dialog is closed and

reopened, the user opens a dierent estimate, or

the application is restarted.

Specify Displayed

Labor Rate Classes

in Estimates

Specify which labor rate classes to display for

each estimate, making it easy to choose the

correct labor rate class.

0118

FEATURE

Item Database

Centralized

Resource Database

Save Estimate Items,

Tasks, or Crews

Back to Resources

Rate Classes

Import Resources

Associated

Equipment

Operators

Address Book

Unlimited private and public Item Databases

support building cost structures right in each

item, termed an “item template.” When you pull

the item into an estimate, the entire cost structure

is pulled in with it.

A centralized resource database — including

labor, equipment, crews, materials, etc. — allows

all estimators to work with the same standard

cost information, as well as standard cost

structures created by your estimating managers.

Save estimate items, tasks, or crews back to the

Resources area for use in future estimates. Or,

if you prefer, you may even choose to save your

estimate items as task templates in Resources.

Labor and equipment rate classes allow you to

store unlimited rate tables for your labor types

and equipment types.

B2W Estimate allows you to copy resource

information to Excel, manipulate the data, and

then import your changes back into B2W Estimate.

Brand new resources may also be added to B2W

Estimate in this fashion.

Equipment can have an operator linked to it so the

operator is automatically pulled into the estimate

whenever the equipment is used.

Customer, subcontractor, vendor and engineer/

architect lists allow you to manage addresses for

the companies you deal with.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Resources & Item Template Setup

The Resources area of B2W Estimate is the backbone of the estimating system. In Resources resides all of the

information you useto form the cost basis of your estimates. It also includes crew templates and task templates

that allow you to assemble reusable cost structures. In addition, Resources serves as a storage area for

organizational information such as your customer lists, engineers/architects, subcontractors, and vendors.

0118

FEATURE

E-mail and

Web Hyperlinks

Wherever Web page addresses or e-mail

addresses appear in B2W Estimate, hold down

the CTRL key and click to navigate to the Web

site or create a new e-mail message for

the contact.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

State DOB

Database

Weights and

Dimensions

Import Weights

and Dimensions

B2W Estimate provides over 90 pre-packaged

lists of DOT items that seamlessly integrate with

the program, at no additional charge.

Record weights and dimensions for materials and

equipment in Resources and an estimate. There

is an option for calculated Indirects that will

calculate costs based on total weight or volume

of materials and equipment in an estimate.

Specify weight and volume values for your

materials and equipment when importing or

updating those resources with the Import

Resources Wizard. You can map data from your

import ﬁle to weight and volume values.

0118

FEATURE

Work Breakdown

Structure (WBS)

Work Breakdown Structures allow you to

organize and develop your estimates in an

unlimited hierarchical form that matches your

business needs. It gives you visibility into how

costs are rolled up and the level of detail at which

costing is done. Estimates can be conﬁgured to

support pay items, WBS levels, or both together.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Summations

View Item History

Work Rules

Suppressed Items

and Tasks

Cost Groups

As part of Work Breakdown Structure, you can

select Calculate as a summation as a method for

setting a selected value within WBS Levels.

View historical information about how an item

has been bid in the past. You may view histories

for pay items, as well as for indirect items.

The Work Rules feature allows you to conﬁgure,

name and store multiple combinations of

production hours, equipment hours and labor

hours per day. Labor hours per day are broken

down into regular, overtime and double time.

These work rules may be assigned to the crew

template, and overridden for individual labor and

equipment in the crew template.

Suppress items or tasks within your estimates

to “turn o” their cost, in order to view “what if”

costing scenarios.

Cost group functionality allows users to group

like items and tasks, and then utilize a similar cost

structure for all of them. This functionality adds

even more ﬂexibility and works with the way

estimators really think about job costing; saving

time and money in the end.

Costing

Some of the most powerful features found in B2W Estimate relate to costing. The ﬂexibility and detail around

costing in B2W Estimate gives estimators the ability to create estimates in the way that works the best for them.

0118

FEATURE

Calculated

Cost Method

Comparison

Cost Method

A “Calculated” cost method allows you to

calculate the cost of an indirect item as a

percentage on direct cost categories. You can

then classify the result as a speciﬁc category,

such as Equipment Owned, Labor Base, etc.

The “comparison” cost method gives you the

ability to compare self performed unit costs with

subcontractor quotes. This is useful when you

have the option to self perform certain work, but

also want to compare your unit costs with prices

submitted to you by various subcontractors.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Integrated Vendor

and Subcontractor

RFQ Management

Unlimited Cost

Structure

Task & Crew

Template Previews

Fuel Costs Stored

With Equipment

Rate Classes

Drag & Drop

Within Estimates

Perform powerful analysis on subcontractor and

vendor quotes with B2W Estimate’s integrated

RFQ Management system. Automatically fax or

e-mail RFQs to subcontractors and vendors, then

perform powerful analysis on submitted quotes.

Select the lowest bidder—or split RFQ groups

among multiple bidders—to get to the lowest

possible package price.

B2W Estimate’s renowned tree view allows you to

create estimates with virtually unlimited levels of

detail: items, tasks, sub-tasks, sub-sub-tasks, etc.

The Add Components dialog allows you to

preview the structure of a crew template or task

template before it is added to an estimate.

Fuel costs are stored on a per-rate class basis,

allowing you to conﬁgure the fuel costs speciﬁc

to each individual equipment rate class.

Drag and drop items and cost components within

the tree view to move, reorder and copy.

0118

FEATURE

Drag & Drop

Between Estimate

Assign Notes to

Any Part of

the Estimate

Drag and drop items and cost components

between estimates.

Enter unlimited notes on any part of your

estimate—item, task, crew, material, etc. Each

note is tagged with the initials of who entered it,

along with the time and date.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Estimator Field

Unlimited Minority

Requirements

Duplicate Estimate

Support for

Indirect or

Incidental Costs

Over 130 Item

Listing Columns

This ﬁeld accepts a manually-typed estimator

name, or you may select an estimator from a

drop-down list of B2W Estimate users. This

ﬁeld is used for ﬁltering purposes in the Open

Estimate Dialog.

Enter an unlimited number of minority

participation requirements. Track all

subcontractor participation in order to track

actual minority costs against goals.

Make a duplicate copy of an estimate while you’re

viewing it. Right-click the estimate in the Open

Estimate dialog, or simply click the File menu,

then choose Duplicate to make an exact copy.

Establish an indirect cost total for the estimate,

using either individual indirect items or

percentages. Distribute the indirect cost into

pay items in a manner you specify.

More than 130 columns are available in the item

listing spreadsheet view. This view is completely

customizable, allowing you to show, hide, resize

and reorder the columns.

0118

FEATURE

Grouping of Items

Customizable

Multi-Level

Grouping

Group items by work type, alternate, tags, or

phase on both the spreadsheet view and detail

view of the estimate. Each group shows rolled-up

totals for the items it contains.

Create your own system wide or estimate speciﬁc

groups. Combine multiple criteria to create

nested groups or ﬁlters. For example, group an

estimate ﬁrst by phase and then within phase, by

work type and then ﬁnally by a tag. Groups and

ﬁlters can have unlimited levels and can be used

to create the bid form.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Full Metric/Imperial

Support

Extensive Filtering

Tie Trucking to

Crew Production

Global Rate Edits

Error Check Wizard

Enter values in either metric or imperial

anywhere in the program and B2W Estimate

automatically converts them when you switch

systems using built-in conversion factors.

Reports are automatically printed in the

currently selected system.

Filter items within estimates by alternate, cost

method, ﬂagged, lock type, phase, suppressed,

with notes, work type, zero quantity, zero unit

cost or zero unit bid price, estimator, tag, or

multi-level ﬁltering that combines these criteria to

form a new customized ﬁlter.

Drive trucking costs from crew production rates

by linking trucking days and trucking hours per

day to a crew.

Globally edit equipment, labor, crews, and

materials at estimate, item group, item and

task level.

The integrated Error Check Wizard automatically

scans your estimate for dozens of common

estimating errors. If any problems are found, the

system steps you through each problem so you

can review and resolve it.

0118

FEATURE

Excel Integration

Custom Calculation

Factors

Load Microsoft Excel workbooks directly into

B2W Estimate and link values from the workbooks

into your estimate. This allows the use of

customized calculations speciﬁc to your company.

Create user-deﬁned calculation factors to allow

quantities to drive other quantities. For example,

convert the square yards of an item to drive a task

created in tons using custom conversion factors.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Crew Templates

Copy Between

Estimates

Flexible Overtime

Bid Level Taxes

Bid and

Takeo Quantity

Auto Price

Rounding

Combine labor and equipment to create reusable

templates for use when building estimates. Select

from dierent production methods, including

units per hour, hours per unit, etc.

Open two estimates side-by-side, and drag and

drop items and cost components between them.

B2W Estimate allows you to automatically update

the cost information to current rates.

Flexible overtime and double time conﬁguration

options allow B2W Estimate to calculate labor

costs for you the way that you need.

Enter multiple bid-level taxes to handle county

tax, state tax, GST tax, etc.

Enter both bid quantities and takeo quantities

and track over/under amounts using the Bid

Versus Takeo summary.

B2W Estimate includes an option to

automatically round pay item prices using

a scheme you conﬁgure.

0118

FEATURE

Owned and

Rented Equipment

Instant

Recalculation

Equipment may be classiﬁed as owned or rented.

Cost summaries reﬂect separate totals for each,

and dierent markups can be applied to rented

vs. owned.

Enter bid prices and cost information and instantly

see updated cost and price information on-screen.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Flexible Cost

Methods

Track Costing

Related Comments

Set Apportioning

to any WBS Level

B2W Estimate supports multiple cost methods

for items and tasks, to allow you to use the right

level of detail. Plug allows you to plug a unit

or total cost. Subcontracted allows plugging

a unit or total cost, or soliciting quotes from

subcontractors. Quick allows entry of unit or total

costs for individual cost categories. Detail allows

addition of cost components, including crews,

materials, labor, equipment, trucking, and other

tasks to break down the cost detail. Comparison

allows you to create an item or task along

side a detailed cost, and compare either to a

subcontractor quote toggle whenever you want.

The Calculated cost method is used for Indirect

items and allows you to create the cost as a

percentage of another cost category in the bid.

B2W Estimate allows you to enter comments for

each item, crew, material, labor, equipment, etc.

during the costing process. The comments dialog

includes a full history, including the estimator’s

initials, date and time each comment was entered.

Set an apportioning scheme at any level in a

Work Breakdown Structure.

0118

FEATURE

Detailed Markup

Capabilities

Mark up bids using broad or more granular

methods. Use a single percent that applies to all

costs, or break out by cost category and assign

dierent mark up to labor instead of equipment

or materials. Have default mark up settings, or

change them to be bid speciﬁc.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Apply Markup by

Phase, Alternate,

or Work Type

Apply Markup

by Subcontractor

Distribute Indirect

Items Individually

Fax and

E-mail Proposals

Bond Tables

Enter percentages to calculate indirect cost,

overhead, or proﬁt based on direct cost on a

per-phase, per-alternate, or per-work type

basis. This allows you to use a dierent set of

percentages for the direct cost in pay items

classiﬁed with a speciﬁc phase, alternate, or

work type.

Enter percentages to calculate indirect cost,

overhead, or proﬁt on a per-subcontractor

basis. This allows you to use a dierent set

of percentages for the direct cost in all pay

items, indirect items and tasks for each

selected subcontractor.

Deﬁne an overall distribution strategy for indirect

cost, but then override the default distribution

settings on a per-indirect item basis. This allows

you to customize the distribution of speciﬁc

indirect items.

Automatically fax or e-mail proposals

to customers.

B2W Estimate supports creation and

management of multiple bond tables, including

a default bond table for new estimates.

Bid Closing

Another strength of B2W Estimate is its bid closing capabilities. The process occurs on three tabs where values

can be determined for bond, overhead, proﬁt, and when you chose to use indirects. Choose the pay items where

the previously calculated values are to be distributed, and specify a method of distribution to be used. Perform

distribution, and make any necessary manual adjustment to your item prices.

0118

FEATURE

Flexible Price

Locking

Calculate Item

Price as Percent

of Total Bid Price

Lock an item by its unit price, by its margin or

markup percentage so that future distributions do

not aect the item price you’ve chosen.

A special type of price lock allows you to have

B2W Estimate calculate the price of a pay item as

a percentage of the total bid price. This is helpful

for allowance items that may not exceed a certain

percentage of the price.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Bid vs. Takeo

Analysis

Real-Time

Bid Modeling

Adds/Cuts

Link Estimate-Level

Bid Closing Values

to Excel Workbook

Default Closing

Items Selection

Analyze the cost, price and markup dierence

between bid quantity and takeo quantity both

on screen and in reports.

The Bid Pricing Strategy tab allows you to

model the bid. A real-time pricing summary is

displayed, allowing you to make modiﬁcations to

markup percentages, bond table conﬁguration

and bid-level taxes, and instantly see the impact

of the change.

Add or remove money from the bid in a single

location, and apply it to the cost category of

your choice. Take $10,000 o labor, or add

$25,000 to your materials without having to go

and change individual components or items.

Choose how and which parts of the bid receive

the add or cut and determine if the adds/cuts

happen before or after mark ups are applied.

Link Total Indirect Cost, Total Overhead, or Total

Proﬁt to an Excel workbook cell. This allows you

to create customized or proprietary calculation

schemes for these bid-level values.

Select a default item or group of items to

distribute a “leftover” bid price value, resulting

from rounding and price balancing.

0118

FEATURE

Over 130 Item

Pricing Columns

More than 130 columns are available in the item

pricing spreadsheet view. This view is completely

customizable by you, allowing you to show, hide,

resize and reorder the columns.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

High-Precision

Unit Bid Prices

Custom Bid

Form Layout

Rich Text on

Bid Forms

And RFQs

Signature Image

on Bid Form

B2W Estimate supports adjustable precision for

unit bid prices, out to six decimal places.

Customizable bid form generation allows you to

generate detailed unit price or lump sum bids

with grouping and subtotaling options.

B2W Estimate now allows you to utilize many

common varieties of advanced text formatting

— including bullets, underlines, boldface,

and italics — on your bid forms and requests

for quotes. This gives you a great deal more

ﬂexibility in creating payment terms, bid form

notes, subcontractor RFQ notes and vendor

RFQ notes with a professional appearance.

Upload an image of your signature and have it

print together with one selection.

0118

FEATURE

Print Over

100 Estimate &

Resource Reports

Reports can be printed for the entire estimate,

an item group, speciﬁc item, or a single task.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Print Reports in

Metric or Imperial

Send Report

to Printer

Without Previewing

Table of Contents

in Reports

Support For

Custom Company

Logo Header

Support For

Multiple Companies

Web Download

of New Reports

Report Bundles

All reports except bid forms are printed in

the current system of measure selected in the

application. This allows you to analyze cost

information in either metric or imperial.

The Print dialog supports sending a report

directly to the printer without previewing it ﬁrst.

Many reports support the display of a table of

contents, allowing you to quickly navigate to

dierent parts of a report. For example, the Cost

Detail report allows you to quickly navigate to a

speciﬁc item.

Import a graphic for use as the header for reports

from any of the following formats: BMP, EMF, GIF,

JPG, PNG, TIF, or WMF. This allows you to create

a custom graphic, including your company logo

for printing on all reports.

If your organization prints reports and submits

proposals under multiple company names, simply

select the appropriate company for each estimate

and all reports will print using the selected

company information. Each user can assign a

default company for his reports and bid forms.

B2W Estimate creates new standard reports

based on customer demand. Download new

standard reports directly from the B2W Estimate

support site and add them to your system.

Create collections of estimate reports that you

can print together with one selection.

Reports

B2W Estimate is pre-packaged with a variety of estimate reports that allow you to print detailed documentation

of all aspects of the estimating process, including item and estimate summary reports, and cost detail reports.

0118

FEATURE

B2W Operational

Suite and B2W

Estimate Networked

Quickly transfer estimated jobs from B2W

Estimate directly into the B2W Operational Suite.

DESCRIPTION

BASIC PROFESSIONAL

ENTERPRISE

Excel

Import/Export

DOT Integration

Export to

Project Management

and Accounting

Instant Online

Help For Each

Import/Export

Format

Enhanced

AASHTO EBS

Compatibility

(1) Where supported.

Import and export pay items from and to

Microsoft Excel.

B2W Estimate provides integration with state

DOT electronic bidding system (EBS) ﬁles.

Download a job from your state’s Web site,

(where supported) and import the bid into B2W

Estimate automatically. Once you’ve priced the

job, export it for submission to your state. (1)

B2W Estimate supports exporting detailed cost

estimate information to project management and

accounting systems such as Microsoft Project,

Primavera, Viewpoint, Cheetah, Timberline,

Dexter & Chaney and many more.

Each import/export add-in includes an online

help ﬁle that is embedded with the add-in.

This allows you to access the latest

documentation in electronic format.

B2W Estimate’s AASHTO EBS import add-in

eliminates the need to adjust the options in the

EBS software to only include a limited number of

ﬁelds in the CSV ﬁle. B2W Estimate scans the

ﬁelds in the ﬁle and uses those that it needs.

The export process includes the default columns

expected by the EBS software in the export ﬁle,

eliminating the need to change the default import

settings in that program.

Integration

B2W Estimate was built and designed to integrate with state DOTs, industry leading accounting and project

management solutions and even Microsoft Excel. Plus B2W Estimate is networked with our B2W Operational Suite

allowing the ability to compare job site performance against estimated costs in real-time.

0118