To work with Bid
Areas, go to the Bid menu
and select Show Areas or
Select 
on the Cover Sheet. The Bid
Areas dialog appears.
Bid Areas are defined locations within a single bid like buildings, floors, levels, wings, phases, zones or rooms that are common to separate locations. Area names generally refer to the contract drawings. The estimator has full control over what areas are called.
Quick Bid uses Bid Areas to allocate accumulated costs charged to these specific locations. Reports can then be generated to display information and quantities for each specific building area that has been used. Follow the steps below to create a bid area.
To work with Bid
Areas, go to the Bid menu
and select Show Areas or
Select on the Cover Sheet. The Bid
Areas dialog appears.
To add a New
area, select 
or 
and enter the name of your area.
To add multiple subsets to
an area, such as multiple floors to the Building 1 below, select
and select a name from the Area Quick Add dialog
drop down list, or type in the name for the area you want to create. Notice
that the Indent under Building 1 is checked. If you remove the check,
the new Floors would be added at the same 'level' as the Buildings. This
is an example of having an area within an area. You can use the Quick
Add anytime you have a series of areas such as Buildings, Floors, Rooms.
Type a range in the From and To
fields such as 1 to 5 (see below) and click 
.
To indent or outdent an area
to assign it to a parent area, highlight the desired area and select either
or 
directly beneath the parent area you want to assign it to.
To move areas up or down in
the list, select 
or as desired.
To delete an area, highlight
the desired area and click 
.
To print an area, click 
,
and a print preview will appear for your review. Click
the Print icon 
to print or the Export
Report icon 
to export the file to .pdf.
Bid Areas can be grouped in a logical manner with parent child relationships. You can make an area a subordinate of a larger area by Indenting and Outdenting when necessary.
An example of this would be if you are bidding a 10 story building and 8 apartments on each floor. You would first use Quick Add to create your 10 floors but then create 8 apartments within each floor. This would allow more specific data to be derived from your reports. Costs and estimates could be generated per Apartment using this method.
A plus sign (+) next to any Area Name indicates that there are subordinate areas within that defined area.
To allocation specific costs to areas, you need to specify how much
of each Condition is allocated to each area. On the Condition Detail,
click on the Area lookup button 
Choose the area to which you want to allocate this Condition. If you need to assign the Condition to more than one area, click the Multi-Area check box next to the lookup button. The Multi-Area dialog box will open:
You can now enter the amount of Quantity 1, 2 and 3 that is allocated to each area.
When using the Multi-Area feature, you will not be able to enter values directly into Quantity 1, 2 or 3 under Condition Information - you must use the Multi-Area dialog box.