Quick Bid
About Quick Bid
Quick Bid is a construction estimating solution that helps organizations deal with bid jobs quicker and with more accuracy. Quick Bid helps contractors reduce discrepancies, identify risk factors, gain material quotes, and generate multiple reports. The software supports a variety of trades including, electrical, concrete, firestopping, interiors, flooring, landscape, roofing, masonry, steel framing, and woodworking.
Seamless integration with On-Screen Takeoff allows users to perform quantity surveys and transit data directly to Quick Bid. The platform streamlines the estimating process by automating and consolidating various functions, and minimizing miscommunications and duplications. Organizations can see immediate improvements in efficiency, as well as reduce manual data-entry errors. With ‘bid areas’, users can divide quantities by building, floor, room, wing, or elevation, and create stocking lists by those areas.
The Quick Bid platform allows bids to be adjusted easily, allowing for last-minute addendum changes to be recalculated. Users can manage bids with the solution's 'Bid Navigator' that creates tabs for each bid and allows users to view conditions, equipment, labor, markups, and materials. The master database tables enable users to build price bids, modify and manage contacts, manufacturers, assemblies, and account codes.
Quick Bid helps eradicate inconsistent bidding by automating the estimating process which includes quantification of material waste, current cost identification, and quote comparisons from suppliers. Users with a maintenance subscription have access to eQuotes, which allows them to send and receive quotes from suppliers electronically. Quick Bid offers custom or template assemblies in order to generate more accurate and detailed bids.
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- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
I don't usually gush over a program, but when I do it's Quick Bid....
Reviewed on 2018/12/03
Wonderful. I don't priase software companies very often, or to such an extent, but OCS deserves...
Wonderful. I don't priase software companies very often, or to such an extent, but OCS deserves accolades on this. Let's see if they can keep it up now that they are part of a MUCH larger company (Roper Technologies). I'm a lifer and deep into this program. I've set up 3 different companies that I've worked for. A fully portable database helps a lot...
Pros
Just about everything. Fully functional (maybe TOO functional!) and fully customizable, to a fully trained estimator this program is a pleasure! It allows me to get as granular as I need to, yet it's as easy as pulling a takeoff in OST to get a price if you have your pricing already inputted. Also service! Their service is the BEST! Great techs, great account reps, everyone is always willing and eager to help! Never had an issue they couldn't solve. Also, they are very receptive to new ideas and features and uaully try to incorporate them quickly into the software
Cons
It's getting bloated, and it's beginning to hang up on starts. Too many 'general exception faults' on startup now. I hope they get this fixed, it's time consuming and would think it embarrassing to OCS
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great Software for Take-off and Estimating
Reviewed on 2023/08/11
Good, We have been using it for 15 years now and have not considered another product because it...
Good, We have been using it for 15 years now and have not considered another product because it does what it is supposed to do.
Pros
Once setup, it works good and comes with great support.
Cons
There are some bugs like database sizing, needing to compact and repair a lot, exporting projects, not showing total hours on the labor tab of QB.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Another let down customer
Reviewed on 2016/08/19
Used the program for a few years It is a good program for doing take offs .mpaid just under $4k for...
Used the program for a few years It is a good program for doing take offs .mpaid just under $4k for the licence so it is fairly pricey than similar systems on the market. Fairly dumb program in that to do a complete build up estimate you Either have to pay another 4K for quick bid or develop a excel spreadsheet and live link the data which is sometime temperamental . Back up service in Australia is poor referring you to a contact in Brisbane which is pretty useless when your in Perth. Diassaponted in paying just under 4 k for the program and then receiving a email a few months ago saying I need to purchase a new licence as they are no longer supporting the dongle security versions . Would have expected a longer life out of this program will be looking at other software such as costx which is cheaper and offers more functionality .
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Ease of use
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Cost versus life span disappointing
Response from ConstructConnect
We apologize for your negative experience. Numerous phone calls and emails regarding the change from dongles to activation codes have been attempted but it appears that the phone number we have on file is no longer in service. Please contact Crystal Barger, Client Services Manager, to update your contact information and to upgrade to your free On-Screen Takeoff version that utilizes activation codes.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
More powerful tools available
Reviewed on 2016/10/03
This software is a good tool to aid in estimating. There are more tools than we are really...
This software is a good tool to aid in estimating. There are more tools than we are really equipped to use.
Pros
Flexible for our needs
Cons
Getting help if something goes wrong requires putting in a help request and waiting for an appointment with a specialist.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
It has been difficult to learn, but it is getting easier the more I play with the program.
Reviewed on 2017/08/08
Our company benefits with putting bids together faster and creating a proposal with the cost and...
Our company benefits with putting bids together faster and creating a proposal with the cost and scope of work there.
Pros
It calculates the amount of labor cost, payroll cost and material cost. It also has Units of Measure that comes in handy when working on a bid. I also like that I can create a proposal and send a breakdown of cost for the material for each project or field.
Cons
The codes and sections are the most difficult. I have had to create different codes for the same type of material with different styles because the cost will not adjust to the style. Although there are Units of Measure there is not one for tons. And our company works with tonnage but substitute it with EACH.
Quick Bid FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Quick Bid.Q. What type of pricing plans does Quick Bid offer?
Quick Bid offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$0.01
- Free Trial: Not Available
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Q. Who are the typical users of Quick Bid?
Quick Bid has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Quick Bid support?
Quick Bid supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Quick Bid support mobile devices?
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Q. What other apps does Quick Bid integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Quick Bid has
Q. What level of support does Quick Bid offer?
Quick Bid offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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