Estimating Software for Construction & Shipbuilding

Budget Estimation - Bidding

Build estimates and coordinate the bidding process

Budget Estimation - Bidding Module is a bidding-specific CRM, a sales tool, operated by commercial managers, quantity surveyors, estimators, and tendering professionals, facilitating the budgeting of each project on the BoQs and accelerating the submission of well-estimated and planned proposals whilst increasing dramatically the possibilities of bid-wins.

Accurate budgeting not only enhances competitiveness but also ensures project viability, minimises financial risk, and builds trust with stakeholders from the very first engagement.

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Budget Estimation – Bidding · ProjectVIEW ERP

Estimating and bidding software for capital projects

Estimating and bidding software for capital projects turns a tender BoQ into a priced, risk-checked bid. It builds each rate from resources, prices and productivity, not from copied old prices. In ProjectVIEW ERP, the same BoQ then becomes the project budget. As a result, the price you bid is the cost you control.

Key Features

Import/Export BoQ from/to Excel Template
Create New BoQ subitems as nested lines
Associate Cost Recipes – Direct and Indirect Resources
Update Materials/Subcontractors database via Procurement
Forecast Inflation-based Materials Cost
Allocate Indirect Budget Costs
Any BIM Connector/Viewer
Apply Overhead/Risk/Profit
What-if/What-Will Bidding Scenarios
Multiple Budget Versions (BoQ Versions)

Budget Estimation – Bidding · ProjectVIEW ERP

See Budget Estimation – Bidding in action

Budget Estimation – Bidding

Build the budget from the tender BoQ. Each BoQ line gets its resources, prices and productivity through cost recipes. Set overhead, risk and profit, submit the bid and export it back to the client’s Excel template.

BoQ budget built from resources and cost recipes
Overhead, risk and profit margins per bid
The approved budget becomes the cost control baseline

Budget Estimation & Bidding

What is estimating and bidding software for capital projects?

Priced bill of quantities with drawing take-off and bid total

What ProjectVIEW Budget Estimation & Bidding contains

BoQ import from Excel: tender BoQ lines are extracted, cleaned and assigned to the right estimators.
Quantity take-off (QTO): quantities from drawings, PDFs and BIM models link to BoQ codes.
Cost recipes: productivity templates add labor, materials, plant and subcontract resources to each BoQ item.
Resource libraries and historical costs: past rates per region and project support every price.
e-RFQ: consolidated requests bring current supplier and subcontractor prices into each BoQ line.
Overhead, risk, discount and profit: each margin is added separately and stays visible.
What-if bid scenarios: change prices at any BoQ level and see the new total at once.
Export to the tender file: priced lines go back into the client's original Excel.

Why it matters in project-based ERP

Fewer pricing errors: import and export to the tender file remove manual re-typing.
Risk is sized, not guessed: the system compares tender and measured quantities and prices the difference.
One BoQ from bid to budget: the awarded bid becomes the baseline for cost control.
More time for strategy: estimators decide on price and risk instead of keying in data.

Add-ons and AI

BIM add-on: import any .ifc file and extract materials and quantities per BoQ code.
2D QTO add-on: measure lengths, areas and counts on drawings, PDFs and images.
Bidding & Estimation AI Agent: imports and cleans BoQs from any Excel format and builds an early budget from cost recipes.

FAQ

FAQ: estimating and bidding

What is estimating and bidding software?

It is software that prices a tender BoQ from resources, rates and productivity, and then adds overhead, risk and profit. In ProjectVIEW ERP, the priced BoQ also becomes the project budget after award. It serves construction, shipbuilding and repair, marine and offshore, mining and quarrying, and project-based manufacturing companies.

Can ProjectVIEW ERP import the client's BoQ from Excel?

Yes. It extracts the BoQ lines from the tender Excel file and helps clean the data. After pricing, it exports the rates back to the same file for submission.

How does ProjectVIEW ERP handle bid risk?

Overhead, risk, discount and profit are kept as separate margins. In addition, the system compares tender quantities with measured quantities and sizes the cost of the difference. What-if scenarios then show how price changes affect the total.

What happens to the estimate after award?

The priced BoQ becomes the cost budget. Each BoQ item links to WBS activities and cost codes, so the project team controls cost on the same structure the estimators priced.

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