Manufacturer Spotlights

Estimation’s ToolBox Wins 1st Place
at the ISH Show Awards

Estimation, Inc., a leading provider of computerized solutions for contractors, is proud to announce receiving the 1st Place Prize for the “New Product Showcase” at the 2006 ISH North America Show in Chicago.  This highly sought after Honor was decided upon by a select group of industry experts, in which Estimation walked away with 1st Place in an intense competition with eight other Software and Business Efficiency Products.

ToolBox provides contractors with a comprehensive set of tools designed to help them manage, analyze, and store their Bids, Jobs, Submittals, RFIs, Change Orders, etc.   It is a contractor's 'software toolbox' containing all the necessary software solution tools to assist you with your document management/storage and analysis process.   Did you ever wonder why you won or lost a Bid or what made the job over or under budget?  ToolBox stores all the entered data for your Pre-Bids, Current Bids, Lost Bids, Won Bids, and Jobs allowing you to generate Reports for tracking the history and analyzing the Estimate, Bid, and Job Data.  Also included is a Document Management/Storage program for Submittals, RFIs, Change Orders, Correspondences, and Contacts.

ToolBox allows you to:

• Track the Due Dates of Bids so that you don't miss out on the opportunity.
• Track the Expiration Date of Blueprints so that you can return them without paying a fee.
• Track the size, number of floors, footage, etc. on your Jobs so you can have the important analysis and data history for your project management needs.
• Track Data to provide Analysis Reports to determine the factors involved in the bids you won versus the bids you lost (i.e. size of projects, the competition, type of jobs - commercial vs. government, etc.). 
• Track your Job Status for projects in progress, on hold, important deadline dates, contract extensions, etc.
• Check Change Orders to determine when a request was made, approved, resubmitted, or denied.
• Track if the completion date extends the original due date of the contract.
• Track if it is a time & materials job verses a project based.

The old saying “Time is Money” stands true to date.  Think of all the wasted time, hence money, you have spent searching for your various files or trying to analyze what happened.  This software solution tracks the data and provides priceless analysis on why a bid was won or lost, or why a job was under or over budget so that contractors can analyze areas where they could yield a profit, or more importantly, a loss - enabling them to make the best decisions for their organization.

ToolBox was written using the latest Microsoft tools and is designed specifically for Windows XP.  The program integrates with our latest Logistics Version 6 to give the user full functionality.  Logistics is the total business management solution for specialty contractors in the Plumbing/Mechanical, HVAC, and Electrical trades.