There needs to be a way to have “Base Bid” items in an estimate when using alternates. When including or excluding alternates, the “Base Bid” value should not change. All of the Totals/Markups that change because an alternate is included or excluded need to be allocated to that Alternate, ie: the “Base Bid” should not change. The percentage based addons seem to work like this, but the addons that utilize a table rate change the base bid when an alternate is included or excluded.
by: Daniel D. | over a year ago | Other
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I feel like the program can do this already with the statues and allocating add-ons appropriately. -Kyle Bonde, Hensel Phelps
If add-ons on the totals sheet are all percentage based or calculations, I think the alternates feature works great. But when you introduce lump sum add-ons it starts to get a little weird, especially on the alternate summary page.
For example if I have a lump some general conditions add-on on the totals sheet and it is allocated to only the "base bid" alternate, when I turn other alternates on/off, the "base bid" changes. I'm sure this has to do with the add-on formulas calculating on the lump sum but if you think in simple terms, the "base bid" should not change whether an alternate is included or excluded.
Thanks, -Daniel Dercher, Nabholz