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CASE STUDY ROMERO GENERAL CONSTRUCTION Standardizing estimating while staying on time and on budget have been significantly easier for Romero General Construction since partnering with B2W Software. The company originally sought a software package that would provide a centralized database to compartmentalize their resources and keep them organized, and found the perfect solution in B2W Estimate That solution allowed Romero to standardize the estimating and bidding process, keeping all of their estimators on the same page and eliminating the risk of errors, says senior project manager Devin Heid. "When we have updates to our labor and burdens, we are able to make those quickly and efficiently, and the changes are effective immediately on all of our bids going out," he continues. "With the built-in error checking, we're able to quickly determine if we've omitted any costs or aspects of the bid that we easily could have missed before." The company also saves time and money by updating a specific part of the bid globally. "We do that a lot when materials change or a when a specific labor or equipment rate changes. We can go into a very large bid proposal and update the new material price, and have that take effect throughout the entire project," explains Heid. "With that, we're able to play out different scenarios and see what will happen throughout the course of a project with price escalations and things of that nature." Romero's success with B2W Estimate led to the decision to streamline another area of operations with the B2W Track element for field tracking and analysis. Previously, reports were filled out by foremen in the field and faxed into the office, requiring someone to transcribe the report and enter it into the accounting system. "Now with B2W Track, we're able to skip a few of those steps, eliminate a lot of data entry, and utilize those personnel in other areas that are more productive," says Heid. Integration with the Viewpoint (formerly Maxwell StreetSmarts) accounting system has also been a big time saver, allowing the company • Headquarters: Escondido, California • Work Types: Grading, Paving, Excavation, Concrete • Elements: Estimate, Track • Client Since: 2001 • B2W User Conferences: 2 Formerly...