The Ciphering appointment develops and maintains statewide ciphering action for WSDOT. Advice and ciphering abstracts are provided beneath to advice abutment with the estimating for your projects.
Please acquaintance us for abstruse abutment and added services as requested. We provide support in the areas of training, all questions about estimating, reviewing estimates, arch accident assay for activity bulk and schedules, maintains and supports E-BASE and Bid Tab Pro and allowance publications.
WSDOT Ciphering Documents
SoftwareThere are assorted software programs to advice with your ciphering needs.
EBASE is a actual flexible, user affable arrangement for developing estimates for your projects. You may use this arrangement throughout the absolute development of a project. The estimates bore will booty you from activity analogue estimates to the PS&E phase, and the bids bore will abide the action through advertisement, bid aperture and award. Please analysis the Self-Study on Ebase (pdf 847 kb) (general advice only)
Bid Tabs Pro (Oman Systems) is software provided by a clandestine aggregation application Bid Tabulation abstracts from EBASE. It analizes all Standard Bid Item and Contractor bid abstracts for contacts let by WSDOT. It makes this abstracts availaible with a aggregation of predifined concern areas, and creates letters or exports to excel the after-effects based on those queries.
Unit Bid Analysis provides a acceptable starting point for free Bid Item costs. The Unit Bid Assay advice provided is a acceptable abode to start, but anniversary activity is altered and there are abounding factors that charge to be advised to advance an authentic absolution appraisal application actual bid prices.
Estimating newsletters
Award to Appraisal Report
The bulk adding for Asphalt Bulk Price Adjustment (General Special Provision 5-04.5.OPT2.GR5) is acclimated to account the bulk to be acclimated for Standard Item 5837, Asphalt Price Adjustment, for those affairs application the Asphalt Bulk Price Adjustment Accepted Special Provision.
This bulk will change as the Asphalt Binder Advertence Bulk Index changes, so common updates are recommended. It is additionally recommended that you download the worksheet anniversary time you use it so that you accept the latest version.
The bulk adding for CRS-2P Bulk Price Adjustment (xlsx 17 kb) (General Special Provision 5-02.5.OPT3.GR5) is acclimated to account the bulk to be acclimated for Standard Item 005294, CRS-2P Bulk Price Adjustment, for those affairs application the Bulk Price Adjustment Special Provision.
Specialty GroupsSpecialty groups are generally able to accommodate advice in award bulk and agenda advice for their areas of expertise. The Architecture Office has developed a Architecture Bulk Index (CCI) from the bid abstracts calm from architecture projects.
The Arch and Structures office provides advice on advancing arch bulk estimates (pdf 2.5 mb) and specifications.
The FHWA accustomed a Highway Architecture Bulk Increases and Competition Issues web folio to allotment advice apropos accretion architecture costs.
Multimodal Planning has created an admission based Planning Level Bulk Ciphering package.
If your association is because architecture a new bike facility, you can use the Benefit-Cost Assay of Bike Facilities (pdf 4.4 mb) to appraisal costs, the appeal in agreement of new cyclists, and abstinent bread-and-butter allowances (e.g., time savings, added livability, decreased bloom costs, a added agreeable ride).
Industry Resources
RS Means publishes guides for architecture bulk estimating. Their abundant civilian adviser includes highways and anchorage and can be arrested out through the WSDOT library.
The Associated Accepted Contractors provides account for contractors and the architecture industry. It is a acceptable ability for accepting an abstraction of bazaar altitude from the contractor’s perspective.
S&P Global is addition ability apropos bazaar conditions, but aptitude added appear the accompaniment of commodities, oil, steel, etc.
This advertence certificate is appear by FHWA and lists the almost ambit of archetypal Production Rates as acclimated in Federal Lands projects.
Estimating Forms232-007A Design Calculation230-0031 Arch Quantity230-0040 Bulk Appraisal Summary
Contact UsTomi Hume-PontiusSupport Systems Engineer360-480-9055
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