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CASE STUDY POMERLEAU With close to 1,000 employees, Pomerleau manages mid- to large-scale infrastructure, civil engineering, commercial and industrial construction projects across Canada as a general contractor, project manager and construction manager. For its Heavy Civil division, a key contributor to staying on schedule and on budget is what chief estimator Francis Beaujault calls a top-of-the-line estimating and bidding solution from B2W. Challenges Beaujault joined Pomerleau in 2002. He says that at the time, the company was looking for an estimating and bidding software option that would meet its requirements. The search for a more robust solution with advanced features led to the selection of B2W Software in 2005, as Beaujault began leading the estimating team. B2W Solutions "We won the very first bid that we tendered with B2W Estimate," recalls Beaujault. "That was a good start, and Estimate continues to do exactly what we need." The centralized resources of the B2W Estimate solution have allowed Pomerleau to work more efficiently, utilizing reusable task and item templates for repetitive work and standardizing the estimating and bidding process across the enterprise. Ease of use is also a vital feature. "Even though it's a complex software, Estimate was easy to implement and intuitive to learn, so our estimating team was able to get up and running right away," Beaujault explains. "We still find it very easy to work with, and it makes it easy for us to present and explain to our board what is in each bid with clear figures." • Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Work Types: Road, Bridge & Tunnel Construction, Concrete, Earthwork, Demolition, Energy, Marine Projects, Commercial & Industrial Construction • Elements: Estimate • Client Since: 2005 • B2W User Conferences: 2 Formerly...

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