Job Cost Quoting
Quadra Job Cost Quoting is a powerful and feature-rich estimating and project management tool that seamlessly integrates with your job cost and financial systems to eliminate complex spreadsheets, duplicate entry and reduces user and data errors that cut into your margins. Complex estimates are easily created by using preconfigured assemblies, importing take-offs or CSV files, or by simply copying from previous jobs.
Job Cost Estimating for Utilities
Quickly and accurately create complex estimates
Quadra allows you to create complex estimates from:
Assemblies
Construction Units
Templates
Import from CSV
Import Supplier Files
AutoCAD
Supports assembly libraries
Quadra supports assembly libraries like USF, as well as compatibility units, allowing you to:
Group multiple material, labor, and non-stock items
Automatically link associated parts for size, voltage, or other adjustments
Associate financial codes
Auto-adjust item quantities based on changes to units of measure
Quickly duplicate and modify assemblies
Multi-year capital planning and tracking
Quadra allows you to create budgets and form multi-year capital plans.
Easily move jobs between budget years based upon a variety of factors
Quickly go from Budget to Estimate and then track actuals
Report on all your annual budget items down to the cost code for reporting and tracking purposes
Monitor in real-time the performance of your annual budgets
Visibility and accountability into every project
Track every stage of your bid-to-invoice life cycle.
Quadra has a robust and user-friendly Project Management module designed for tracking construction projects. Configurable alerts keep everyone on task and customizable dashboards help you manage multiple projects at the same time.
Support your distribution plan with Quadra
Quadra allows you to track the elements of your projects so that you can report on all the required metrics to support your distribution system plan.
Centralize your project documentation in one spot
Comments, pictures, permits, applications, online forms, drawings, emails all form a key element of your projects. Having them stored in Quadra against your projects makes it convenient, secure and easy to track. This eliminates have multiple copies floating around on people’s computers or on network folders.
Job Cost Quoting for Construction Projects
Bill of materials
Quadra provides the ability to customize the bill of materials report allowing users to group and sort the data.
Real-time material and labor pricing
Without access to real-time pricing you are guessing and not estimating. Quadra integrates with your inventory module to pull prices and stock levels in real-time. You can also import material items and prices directly from your suppliers ensuring you have 100% accurate estimates. If you copy estimates or have a bid with expired pricing, you can refresh prices with the click of your mouse. Quadra also supports divisional pricing for enterprise organizations.
Customizable proposal templates
Create comprehensive, professional maintenance contract proposals using customizable pre-configured templates. You can even have multiple proposal templates available for different services or business units.
Version control and change order management
Quadra’s version control allows for multiple quotes to be provided to the customer with different options and phases. This allows users and customers to track change orders and compare or revert to previous versions.
Visibility into the sales process
Whether it is a manager approving pricing on a bid or a customer signing off on a quote, Quadra logs and tracks every action taken on a job. With multiple approval thresholds, you can customize your approvals to match your business practices. With Quadra’s bid generator, you can have any number of customized bid documents ranging from a simple one-pager to complex contracts.
Key Features:
Create real-time estimates
Leverage assemblies for creating estimates
Create custom reports using SSRS
Easily create quotes
Report on quote status such as wins and losses
Validate material pricing and adjust or import pricing changes
Adjust estimates based on factors such as weather, ground conditions, traffic etc.
Build Job Library for Multi-Year Capital Planning
Build multiple versions of jobs for analysis purposes
