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Public Sector Facilities Stewardship and Data-driven Decision Making

Job Order Contracting

Lumps sum bids from contractors or subcontracts, historical costs, or benchmark cost data are reliable forms of cost estimation. Large, traditional software/services providers provide the best solutions. … Poor Assumptions Drive Disaster.

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Sage Estimating to Vista Exporting Tool

Cassell Construction Estimating

Intorducing The New Sage Estimating To Vista Exporting Tool Quickly convert your sage estimates into a viewpoint vista project management budget Works with the sage estimating versions 9.8

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The pros and cons of becoming a subcontractor

Fieldwire

If you decide to start your own subcontracting business, you’ll be able to reap many of the most significant benefits of working as a general contractor — like greater flexibility in job hours and scheduling. You may need to pay quarterly estimated taxes, depending on how much you make from your subcontracting work.

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Maxwell launches an exclusive construction management software

Construction Cost Estimating

the renowned leader in providing various types of construction management softwares and superior practices, recently introduced Maxwell Systems ProContractorMX version 3.1. This newly launched software has the core competence to augment inter-company transactions, change management, lien management, reporting, and lots more.

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The Five Basics of Fundamentally Sound Construction Operations

Cassell Construction Estimating

Obtain signed Subcontract quotes for the ENTIRE scope of sub tasks 2. Take off material in reasonable detail; don’t get bogged down in minutiae d. Focus on managing your biggest risk- LABOR i. Estimate labor & equipment hours required for each major task e. Conversion to Accounting (Successful Projects only) a.

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New Proposed Cybersecurity Rules Mean Big Changes for Federal Contractors

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

These new requirements for federal contractors include, but are not limited to: Developing and maintaining a Software Bill of Materials for any software used in contract performance. Allowing access and cooperating with the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency for purposes of threat hunting and incident response.

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Sage Intacct Construction Brings Financial Management to the Cloud

Construction Junkie

Your company’s construction financials no longer need to reside on servers, making it easier to use outside of the office and creating a much better environment for integrations with other software. We discussed the evolution of construction financial software and the role cloud-based financials can play in a construction project.

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