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CASE STUDY JAMES D. MORRISSEY Family owned and operated since 1918, James D. Morrissey, Inc. has retained foundational values while adopting a state-of-the-art software platform to complete projects throughout eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. Estimator and project manager John Ehling led the move to add unifi ed B2W Software elements for estimating, fi eld tracking, and equipment maintenance. Challenges "When I joined the company in 2011, we were estimating with Hard Dollar on a DOS platform," Ehling recalls. "The DOS platform was no longer supported, so our fear as we got near the deadline on every bid was that it would crash, and we would lose weeks of estimating work and any chance of being successful. We were also at a competitive disadvantage without modern, time-saving features like a standard database for cost items or the ability to easily pull archival information from previous bids." Real-time fi eld tracking was also a top priority. The Pennsylvania DOT provides the majority of the company's work volume and pays based on quantities completed, as measured by the state's engineers. "Without an effective tool, our fi eld supervision – like most – would be caught at the end of the day addressing other site issues and would not always have time to adequately meet up with state inspectors to confi rm quantities," Ehling explains. "We had no way of confi rming or disputing the state's calculations until we received payment." B2W Solutions "We investigated HCSS and B2W for estimating," explains Ehling. "B2W had the edge when it came to features, but what really sold us was how easy to work with and open to our specifi c needs the B2W team was." • Headquarters: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Work Types: Highway Construction, Paving, Site Work, Underground Utilities, Concrete, Aggregates, Paving Materials • Elements: Estimate, Track, Maintain • Client Since: 2012 Formerly...

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