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Trimble Accubid

Score7.5 out of 10

16 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Trimble Accubid?

Trimble Accubid Classic is an electrical estimating solution for construction, that facilitates the construction workflow from estimating to purchasing, project management, and billing. The more recently released Trimble Accubid Anywhere provides estimating, change management, and pricing in a cloud service subscription.

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Trimble Accubid -- Money saver

Incentivized
Gavin Scott-MillerView profile
Project Manager in Product Management at Gaylor Electric (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Depth of customization
  • Intergrations
  • Industry specific

Cons

  • High barrier to entry
  • Low ease of use / Time-consuming

Return on Investment

  • After completing a lot of training, this software can easily allow a lower-skilled employee to set everything up for review.
  • Reduced time for bid reviews as key indicators are easy to review
  • Ability to review old bids to ensure project delivery

Other Software Used

OneNote, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams, Todoist, Prophix, Bluebeam Revu, Zoom, Skype for Business (formerly Lync)

Accubid Electrical Estimating Software Wins Again

Incentivized
Jay HandlesonView profile
Project Manager at Morrow Meadows Corporation (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Provides accurate NECA labor units for materials.
  • Keeps accurate costs of materials through regular updates.

Cons

  • Needs to update a data base for new emerging markets in energy.
  • Separation of some supporting materials into more relevant categories would eliminate number of required click through actions.

Return on Investment

  • Accubid allows for accurate pricing of electrical estimates.
  • Accubid's accurate pricing allows for more competitive bid estimates.

Alternatives Considered

McCormick Estimating Software and ViewPoint ProContractor

Other Software Used

Viewpoint Spectrum, ViewPoint ProContractor, Microsoft Teams

From an electrical estimator's perspective

Incentivized
Garrett GillView profile
Estimator at Glynn Electric (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Allows for fine control of inputs and variables.
  • Gives a multitude of ways to analyze data.

Cons

  • While the tools provided are great, there could be more to allow more imaginative users to build their own.
  • The user interface is old and clunky.

Return on Investment

  • Helps produce more accurate estimates.
  • Allows us to break scopes out without having to re-perform an estimate.

Other Software Used

Bluebeam Revu

Accubid, the tried and true no frills solution

Incentivized
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Corporate (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The product is used to estimate in a systematic manner new construction and larger remodel projects for our organization. It also allows us to manage the job, post construction by having detailed budgets for our projects that are broken out in bite size pieces for us to handle. The main use case is for new construction however.

Pros

  • Material estimating
  • Labor estimating
  • Aggregating vendor quotes
  • Budgeting estimated Gross Margin for a job

Cons

  • The user interface for adding assemblies to a job
  • Material database management
  • Doesn't integrate well with any other platforms other than their own.

Return on Investment

  • reduced estimating cost vs pen and paper
  • because it's a widely used platform it's easy to recruit estimators to the platform
  • works well in a multi estimator environment

Other Software Used

PlanGrid, Procore, eSUB Construction Software