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06 Creating and Managing Bids, Alternates, and Change Orders

1	QB - 06.00 What Are Projects, Bids, Estimates? A Bid (or Project, Estimate, Job, or Tender) is the estimated total cost of…
2	QB - 06.01 Creating a Quick Bid Project Note When you create a project (bid, estimate, whatever you want to call it)…
3	QB - 06.01.01 Creating a Bid: Filling Out the Cover Sheet Every Bid, Change Order, and Alternate uses a Cover Sheet. When creating a…
4	QB - 06.01.02 Creating a Bid: Setting Bid Preferences on the Cover Sheet When you create a Bid, many settings are taken from the defaults specified…
5	QB - 06.02 Creating a Bid by Importing a Bid Package You can use a Bid Package to recreate a project in your current database. See…
6	QB - 06.03 Creating Interactive Bids All Bids, Alternates, Change Orders, Conditions, Bid Areas, and Typical Areas…
7	QB - 06.03.01 Interactivity with On-Screen Takeoff - Overview and Rules (DOs and DON'Ts) Takeoff (Quantity Surveying) and Estimating (Bidding) go hand in hand and so…
8	QB - 06.03.02 Synchronizing Information Between On-Screen Takeoff and Quick Bid Warning Be sure to review the previous articles carefully before you start…
9	QB - 06.03.03 Connecting and Disconnecting Interactive Bids There may be times when you: Need to disconnect (or end) the interactive link…
10	QB - 06.04 Creating a Project Using a Takeoff File (.ost) You can use a takeoff file (.ost), exported from On-Screen Takeoff or ConstructConnect…
11	QB - 06.04.01 Updating an Existing Project Using a Takeoff File (.ost) You can use a takeoff file (.ost), exported from On-Screen Takeoff or ConstructConnect…
12	QB - 06.05 What are Alternates and Change Orders (sub or child bids)? Alternates and Change Orders are "child" or "sub" bids (not Subcontractor,…
13	QB - 06.06.01 Copying and Pasting Bids from One Database to Another Bids can be copied from one database to another (for example, if a company…
14	QB - 06.06.02 Duplicating Bids in the Same Database Sometimes, an existing Bid is close enough to a new project that it can be…
15	QB - 06.06.03 Deleting and Restoring Bids Deleting a Bid When you delete a Bid in Quick Bid it is not immediately removed…

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