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Practical knowledge for specialty contractors
Compliance, change management, project controls, and the data discipline that compounds across bids. Written for California specialty subs — owners, PMs, estimators, and the field.
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Price your first estimate — cost types, assemblies, and the bid
Build an estimate line by line — cost types, assemblies priced per square foot, labor from your agreement's loaded rate — and read the raw cost, overhead, margin, and bid price it rolls up to.
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Productivity rate capture — today's timecard becomes tomorrow's bid
The estimator's productivity assumption is the single biggest source of bid variance. The fix is a feedback loop, and the loop only works if timecard data lives in the same system as the assemblies.
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