For the trench, the bore, the foundation and the fiber in it.
Underground conduit, fiber interconnect, pull boxes and pole foundations are bid by the foot and the each, and paid the same way. WorksPro ties every installed foot back to the bid item, the cost code and the pay estimate.
The problems
Where the margin goes on this work.
- 01
Hours per foot on trench and bore vary job to job, and the bid unit never moves.
Your actual hours per unit from every closed job sit next to the bid unit when you price the next one.
Bid engine - 02
Quantities come in on paper and get keyed in twice.
The foreman logs feet installed per bid item on his phone. Approval updates job cost and the pay estimate at once.
Field app - 03
Your surety wants a WIP schedule and you build it by hand.
A WIP schedule with over/under billing and fade for every job, exported to PDF or CSV.
Job cost and WIP
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.
- Saw-cut, trench and backfill (LF)
- Directional bores
- Conduit by size and location
- Pull boxes and vaults
- Fiber optic interconnect cable
- Pole and cabinet foundations
- Potholing and utility locates
Typical owners: Caltrans districts, counties, cities, utilities and prime contractors on public work.
#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.