Estimating with RSMeans Data

The RSMeans integration inside HeavyBid will allow you to use industry rates for the work you are performing or want to perform all from inside of HeavyBid.

By adding RSMeans access to HeavyBid, you get:

Up-to-date cost breakdowns on thousands of unit cost items and assemblies.
Expand your bidding potential with building component data on more than 23,000 unit cost items.

Guides for specialty items.
Estimate what it costs to self-perform specialty items you’ve never estimated before or would normally subcontract.

Location-specific cost factors.
RSMeans boasts city cost indexes for almost a thousand cities in the United States and Canada.

A few ways RSMeans data can help HeavyBid customers:
Easily build change order estimates for owners who require RSMeans cost data to control change order pricing. (HeavyBid allows for the quick assembly of these estimates, and RSMeans provides the cost and crew data.)

Quickly build an estimate for types of work that are outside your area of expertise.

Build better estimates for work outside your geographic area when the estimator needs a cost estimate with local labor rates.

RSMeans allows a new HeavyBid customer to create a standardized database that can easily be customized quickly. HeavyBid can come powered with setup data, so you can start estimating today!

Engineering companies and owners who don’t have their own labor, equipment, and material cost history can produce quick and accurate cost or budget estimates.