Waters Corporation - Mark Waters

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 another advantage Prime Bid offered was its structured architecture. Mark Waters says “Prime Bid’s structured approach to setting up sections of work and bid packages makes me spend focused time on each bid. That investment pays off on bid day as I have a great grasp of the scope of work and a clear set of expectations to measure progress.”

Walsh Construction - Chuck Holcom

“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 implemented. The Prime Bid systematic method helps me get all of the value out of my preparation without any waste of time or effort.”

The Crowe Group - Timothy Crowe

“We integrated our estimating software with Prime Bid to transfer the costs from our detailed estimate into the Prime Bid spreadsheet,” says Tim Crowe. “Of course we bought Prime Bid for the power of the bid matrices for assembling a bid on bid day, Prime Bid has made a difference in the quality and reliability of our bid numbers.”

Story Construction - Mark Kutchen

“I have found Prime Bid to be a great bid day tool,” says Mark Kutchen. “The computer can solve for the mathematical solutions for the bid packages (matrices) so much faster than I can that I found more time to analyze the quality of the sub bids to make the important judgment calls that make or break our bids.”

Spectrum Contracting - Don Tucker

“We bought the software on Friday and won our first bid the following Thursday,” Don Tucker. “The best 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 bid day process.”

Mid States Construction - Gary Sebens

“Here at Mid-States the team that assembles our bid was able to use Prime Bid within one week of getting it,” says Gary Sebens. “To me that is the definition of user friendly software. We process our bid now with an easier method to get a more sophisticated result.”

Lou Liberti

Lou Liberti finds that the organization of bid sections in a matrix allow him to efficiently analyze single section bids and lump sum bids to come to the best possible solution. “I find the bid analysis process difficult enough to do on paper, paper systems drive me nuts when I need the number NOW,” says Lou. “Prime Bid gives me the answer 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 competitively as possible. Lou says, “You’ve got to have the right tool to get the job done, Prime Bid is the right tool for preparing a competitive bid.”

Lincoln Builders - Dan Morrow

“Each Bid that we approach is unique, Prime Bid is flexible enough to fit the jobs that we bid and still gives us 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 public bid market.”

Leo Finnegan Construction - Mark Hoffman

LFC has prepared competitive bids for over 30 years in the $5 million to $15 million job range. Using Prime Bid, the LFC team now divides up the bid input and the bid analysis on several machines thus eliminating the 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 Mark to spend more time managing the bid, while the other team members are cramming sub bids into their machines. Everyone is contributing to completing the bid. “This is a whole new ball game where I do the 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.”

L&L Builders - Dana Rand

“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 complex bid documents. The developer of Prime Bid listened to our suggestions and changed the software to meet the bid document requirements that we really benefit from.”

Hayner Hoyt Corporation - Brian Kenney

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 can compare bids in an organized system that allows them to know that the bid is complete with costs in every section.

Brian’s boss wants to know the score at several times during the processing of the bid. His questions about 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 data he’s looking at and he can answer his question by looking at the screen,” says Brian. “We have a whole new level of communication on bid day, we have gone from chaos to determined purpose.”

Gerald A. Martin, Ltd. - Steve Collins

We participate full-time in the public and private competitive bid market in New Mexico. We bid jobs from $2 million to $50+ million. Most public jobs are burdened with any number of alternates. Also, New Mexico law requires that all subcontracts over 0.5% of the bid be listed as part of our bid form.

Prime Bid affords the opportunity for multiple estimators to work on the same bid simultaneously. They are working in a live estimate, giving us immediate updates as last minute bids are received. “We have to complete the bid total, provide a list of subs and have our alternates together all at the same time” says Steve Collins, “Prime Bid allows us to accomplish these tasks in an organized fashion.”

Fenix Constructors, Inc. - Mike O'Rourke

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 that would help us process our bid day needs. We wanted additional features in the software,” says Mike O’Rourke. “The folks at Prime Software listened to our requests and those suggestions actually showed up in the software. We need the flexibility and capabilities that Prime Bid offers us.”

Branco Enterprises - Brian Lechner

“We use Prime Bid to get the best number for our company on bid day. Our company enjoys the flexibility found in Prime Bid since no two jobs are the same for us. We have found a new level of competitiveness since we implemented Prime Bid.”