800-683-3196 | www.hcss.com | 13151 W. Airport Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 How many bids can one estimator submit in just two days? If that estimator uses HCSS HeavyBid, the answer is probably more than you think. Just ask Ed Bell Construction of Dallas. Vice President Doug Teter put the pedal to the metal a few years back, submitting 23 Texas Department of Transportation jobs in just 48 hours using only two laptops. “We have a rather extensive codebook and library estimate set up that allows us to assemble a pretty fair amount of estimates in a fairly quick manner,” Teter said. “It’s a lot of copy-and-paste, a lot of creating an activity once and copying it. Then we make tweaks to productions for each project.” Ed Bell Construction, which does primarily highway work, won three of

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