For crews who set the mast arms, pull the wire and turn on the signal.
Signal modifications, roadway and street lighting, ramp metering and interconnect, bid line by line to cities, counties and Caltrans. WorksPro is shaped around that work: unit-price schedules, monthly quantity estimates and prevailing wage on every hour.
The problems
Where the margin goes on this work.
- 01
A county signal job can carry well over 100 bid items, and a handful of them decide who is low.
Bid-tab intelligence shows the winners' range on each item you price, so the items that lose you the job stand out before the bid goes in.
Bid engine - 02
Foundations and wire pull run over and nobody knows until the job closes.
PF by cost code from the foreman's daily quantities. A slide shows up in the week it starts.
Job cost and WIP - 03
The monthly quantity estimate gets rebuilt from field notes every month.
Pay estimates start from approved field quantities through the cutoff, with retention by agency.
Pay estimates
Your bid items
The schedule you already bid, line by line.
Each item maps to cost codes, so the quantities your foreman reports drive earned hours, the pay estimate and the history for your next bid.
- Signal standards, mast arms and foundations
- Vehicle and pedestrian heads, accessible push buttons
- Controller cabinets and service pedestals
- Conduit by location, pull boxes, conductors
- LED luminaires and lighting standards
- Loop and video detection
- Traffic control and mobilization (LS)
Typical owners: Caltrans districts, county public works departments, city street lighting and transportation departments, transit agencies.
#14Signal standard foundations (8 EA)
Winners $34k–$41k · You $148k
#222" PVC conduit, 1,850 LF
Winners $52k–$63k · You $55k
#27Wire pull, conductors (LS)
Winners $41k–$52k · You $49k
#31No. 5 pull boxes (22 EA)
Winners $24k–$31k · You $27k
What-if markup · last 10 comparable bids
At 8% markup you would have been low on 6 of the last 10 comparable bids.
Sample data
Bring one bid and one live job. We will show you both in WorksPro.
30 minutes, on your own bid and one live job. No slides.