Whether you’re a small contractor or a large, multi-crew shop, IntelliBid Lite provides all the software tools you need to generate accurate, consistent estimates quickly and easily. IntelliBid Lite offers more features than other software estimating programs at a fraction of the cost!

All the estimating tools you need are found on one, easy-to-navigate takeoff screen in IntelliBid. Assembly takeoff streamlines the estimating process with over 50,000 electrical, low voltage and structured cabling assemblies to choose from. Use the program’s keyword search function to quickly locate material items! Search the database by item description, manufacturer, manufacturer’s catalog number, stock number or IntelliBid’s item number. Use the same dynamic search function to locate items that are already in your takeoff or to search comments that you’ve added to the estimate’s file. With a detailed takeoff screen, you will see your material and labor extensions calculated instantly in real time!

Alerts for Missing Prices and Labor
How many times have you run the risk of missing prices or labor in an estimate? It can be pretty risky business unless you have the right tools to help you guard against potentially damaging oversights. IntelliBid delivers those safeguards with alerts that warn the estimator when prices or labor on an item or assembly are missing. A detailed, easy-to-read list of materials and labor in your estimate is clearly displayed on the screen where you can edit missing prices and labor before you go to bid!

A web-enabled link connects IntelliBid to NetPricer™ Service, an Internet-based material pricing host, where participating supply houses post their material prices. With the click of a button you can connect to your favorite supplier’s pricing and update your IntelliBid material database and the bid you are working on with your actual material prices from your favorite suppliers*. Bidding with real-time material pricing allows you to estimate with greater speed, accuracy and confidence!

*Available through NetPricer-participating suppliers

Another exclusive IntelliBid feature is Automatic Labor Factoring. With the ALF feature enabled, IntelliBid calculates the labor requirement for multiple installation conditions and applies the correct labor for each material item according to its specific difficulty. For example, when installing fixtures in a room with 8’ ceiling height, the installation of 6 units may take 3.0 hours; but when installing the same 6 fixtures in a room with 18’ ceilings, the installer’s time will increase to 3.3 hours due to the additional 10’ of mounting height. Additionally, if there were 50 fixtures being installed, the labor would be lowered by 15% to 2.8 hrs. Yet the switches to control the fixtures would not be adjusted. ALF eliminates the need to manually factor the labor requirements of each installation for accurate and labor-efficient bids.

For more examples of how the Automatic Labor Factoring feature adjusts an installation’s labor, refer to the charts on page 24. No other system automatically adjusts labor…..why settle for work-arounds?

Entering specifications for your job allows for faster takeoff. You can also save your specifications as the default for all future jobs.

Job Settings - Set material and labor factors, installation sizes, and scaler settings by phase or for the entire job. For example, you set a higher labor factor on phases that represent upper floors and save the setting to apply to all future jobs.

Assembly Groups - Preselecting assembly group options reduces takeoff time. For example, you can preselect the specified conduit fittings (compression, set-screw, etc.), and IntelliBid will include those fittings automatically when you take off your runs, without prompting you to select them each time.

Takeoff Prompts - Entering takeoff values before you start the estimate cuts down on redundant data entry. For example, if all the fixtures are to be installed at the same mounting height, you can set that value in advance so you don’t have to type it in for every fixture you take off.

The Quotation Analysis and Best Buy features in IntelliBid automatically analyze each of your vendor quotes and prices to select the best quote to carry in your bid for aggressive pricing! View quote breakdowns by material, quotes, equipment and subcontractors.

User-definable Job Cost Codes can be exported to major accounting programs, letting you easily set up job budgets without re-entering all your bid data. Transfer cost code budget information or changes in an estimate to ConEst JobTrac or to job cost modules in your accounting program using bid data from IntelliBid for integrated estimating, accounting and job costing.