What Our Strategic Partnership with RSMeans Means for You
Whoever coined the phrase ‘bidding war’ understood the battle ground that bidders, project managers, and owners navigate. But price alone is only half the story. Pricing, low or high, can be supported with the use of line item descriptions and costs from a valid reference cost database that helps tell the whole story.
The best strategy is to gain control with the combination of an accurate cost database and comprehensive line item descriptions that work with your experience. Our e4Clicks Project Estimator program is the proven software technology that delivers. How do we do it?
It begins with the cost database. We are a strategic partner with RSMeans, the industry leader in accurate cost data. This partnership means we offer the full power of their data and then we extend it with detailed line item descriptions that total approximately 400,000 line items strong - so you so you can be a cost estimator, not a cost engineer. As a result, no one else in the industry can provide the content and ease of use you’ll find with e4Clicks.
It’s so easy to use you’ll never need to thumb through a cost book because all the information is just a few clicks away. Locate and use full line item descriptions, images, and references quickly. Modifiers are ready to use so you don’t waste time making calculations. And new line items are highlighted for your reference.
Need to localize your cost data? Or, reuse cost estimates for multiple locations? This is easily done with e4Clicks’ integration of the RSMeans City Cost Index (CCI) applied to cost information. Within e4Clicks you can apply local cost factors directly to materials, labor, and equipment or to totals.
Are you looking to incorporate more sustainability and green practices to your projects? Our RSMeans cost database includes over 8,000 environmentally responsible line items.
As a strategic partner with RSMeans, you also have access to their reference cost database, which means that associated standards such as Uniformat II and MasterFormat04 assure that you can compare and create ‘apples-to-apples’ construction cost data.
When you use our e4Clicks Project Estimator software technology you gain full access to the powerful advantages our strategic partnership with RSMeans provides. That’s the 4Clicks difference.
