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Hard Dollar’s award-winning Project Cost Management solution creates cost confidence and profits with increased visibility, standardization, automation, and control over project costs through estimate creation, timesheet entry, productivity management and project analysis in real-time, along with real-time resource and cost loaded scheduling integration with industry leading project management software packages.

Hard Dollar infrastructure software enables:

Gain an A+B Bidding Edge

A+B bidding continues to gain popularity for public works projects, and is forcing contractors to re-think estimating and bidding methodologies. In A+B bids, the contractor submits both a price (the “A” portion) and a duration (the “B” portion) as part of the bid package. The state or other government agency financing the project establishes a daily cost associated with the job, and multiplies that daily cost by the duration bid by each contractor. The contractor with the best combination of cost and duration - A+B - is awarded the work.

Eliminate Penalties and Liquidated Damages, Gaining Early Complete Bonus Advantage

Because A+B bids typically include significant penalties for completing the project late, as well as bonuses for early completion, contractors must be able to effectively analyze the correlation between a project's cost and its schedule. Even more important, contractors that can easily perform “what if?” analysis across both the estimate and the schedule have a unique advantage when it comes to A+B bids. A+B bids are driving contractors to re-evaluate the importance of scheduling during the estimating process. Hard Dollar's dynamic integration with Microsoft® Project and Primavera® gives customers a highly compelling advantage when it comes to optimizing a project's cost and schedule using different resource and productivity scenarios, crew sizes, shift arrangements, and more. Adding the schedule element gives sophisticated contractors an additional criteria on which to compete for business, so it's not just the low bid gets the job.

Project Interoperability

Hard Dollar Infrastructure software enables standard integration to over 35 ERP systems providing interoperability, and elimination of duplicate data entry while maintaining integrity between operations and financial management.

5D-BIM Server Power

Extensive Building Information Model (BIM) integration streamlines data management and handling from owner designs to ERP systems providing unprecedented labor savings, faster estimating turnarounds and easy to use flexible reporting.

Infrastructure Project Results

Results provide an invaluable intellectual property database of detailed historical quantities, costs, crew, and machine productivity data unique to your company, providing a competitive advantage, accuracy confidence, and a foundation for expansion and growth.

 

What Our Clients Say

"The best part was watching folks react to the info Greg shared. We had great feedback, big smiles all around, and folks excited about newfound streamlined ways to make their work easier. We know Greg's schedule is in demand, and appreciate the time he shared with us."

S.D. (Industrial Construction)

"Michael and Matthew have exceeded my needs and expectations. I get help same day 95% of the time, which is very important in my business at times. They are professional and courteous 100% of the time. Zero complaints."

Mitchell Brothers

"He did a great job online and an equally great job in person. We’re enjoying working with our new Spectrum Viewpoint accounting software."

Chambliss & Rabil Contractors, Inc.

"Beth is absolutely wonderful to work with! I appreciate her patience and professionalism. It’s a relief to know I can count on her to respond and be a life line for us as we continue to learn the system. She is truly top notch."

Eastbound Mechanical

"It’s a pleasure working with Robert. He's very patient, knowledgeable and goes far beyond to help with any issues we have as a company or as an individual."

HL Contractors

"Greg is terrific, and I’m so excited to have a better resource! I have him working on several projects now with many more to come."

Progressive Plumbing

"Thank you for your assistance/responsiveness to assist us in getting P6 back online so quickly today. We appreciate all the support you provide."

M.J. (Manufacturing Firm)

"We appreciate Tim and all of his excellent support."

M.J. (Manufacturing Firm)

"The level of service CDP provides is exceptional and always far exceeded my expectations. You can quote me on that!"

The Wesson Group LLC

"Kristen is a very valuable resource for us!"

LCI-Lineberger Construction Inc.

"I want to let you know how grateful we are for Robert Pacheco’s assistance. He was able to meet with me and discuss the issue promptly and complete the fix within a short amount of time. He is surely an asset, and we are thankful to have such a great resource."

Marques General Engineering, Inc.

"I wanted to let you know Dan did a great job. He has a vast amount of knowledge, and I feel very fortunate to be working with him."

H.F. (Mechanical Contractor)