HeavyBid comes in 4 levels each designed for a different size contractor. The following lists are not intended to be exhaustive, but only show major features to give an idea of what the software does. HCSS is constantly adding features to meet the needs of our customers.

Features standard to all systems (starting at $1,900):

HeavyBid uses biditems for unit priced bids, with unlimited activities per biditem, and unlimited resources per activity.
Unlimited notes about the job, any biditem or activity within a biditem.
Create an unlimited number of estimates any size you need, whether from scratch, other current estimates, or backups.
Backup, Restore, and Delete Estimates
Unlimited number of labor and equipment rate tables.
Items can range from pennies to $10 billion.
Secure estimates with password protection.
Copy entire estimates, individual or multiple biditems and/or activities from previous estimates
Easily change resource cost and have it apply throughout the estimate.
Labor and equipment can be combined to create crews to use as short-cuts for building estimates. These crews can be entered into the estimate with any of 9 productivities ($/unit, mh/unit, unit/mh, shifts, units/shift, shifts/unit, crewhrs, crewhrs/unit, unit/crewhr.)
Very flexible labor overtime techniques.
Multiple Bond Tables.
Enter Job Overheads, Addons and Bonds as Indirect costs and apply them to the rest of your items using one of several prorations.
Apply Optional Sales Tax or Escalation on all Resources.
Compute Addon costs that are a percent of virtually any type of estimate cost.
Calculate markup by cost type and prorate to all Biditems in several ways.
Any item, such as Mobilization, can be set to a % of the job value.
Check your estimate and let the system take you to each questionable location allowing you to make any corrections necessary.
Import from and Export to Microsoft Excel.
Export Bid information to any Microsoft Excel bid proposal template, or Customize a bid proposal.
Import estimates from HeavyBid/Express.
Export budgets to Quickbooks Pro Accounting, PeachTree Complete Accounting, or HeavyJob Field Management Software.
Create custom Checklists.
Indicate both biditem and takeoff quantities and see the impact any differences have on the bid.
On the Pricing screen, change any bid price and see the effect on the bid.
A built-in routine can quickly round bid prices.
Equipment can be identified as owned or rented and rates can be split into ownership and operating costs.
Work up and review alternate costs of biditems which can be toggled as not included in the estimate totals.
Unit cost entry screen for items where detailed costs are not required.
Convert back and forth between Metric and Imperial.
User-defined calculation routines.
Proposal Preparation System to quote prime contractors part or all of your job as a subcontractor via fax or secured e-mail.

Features added with HeavyBid/Basic

A Codebook with construction activities that can be set up with typical crew, production rate, materials, and notes that can come into the estimate automatically.
Quote Management System including electronic quote import from HeavyBid/Express or Microsoft Excel.
Embedded Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets.
Get biditem average prices from www.bidhistory.com.
DOT imports and exports of any state electronic bidding information.
Exports to over 30 Job Cost Accounting Systems other than Quickbooks and Peachtree Complete.
User-defined Assemblies.
Libraries of state DOT codes.
Libraries of past estimates linked to DOT codes for automatic inclusion into the current estimate.
DOT codes for over 35 states.
Prints DOT bid proposals in applicable states & some cities.
Copy/paste partial estimates to other computers.
Renumber biditems.
Cut and Add sheets.
Manual overrides to the automatic prorations for each biditem.
Bid pricing to 2 or 3 decimal places.
Many spreadsheet-type screens have customizable columns and print whatever is on the customized screen.
Labor rate tables can have up to 10 components of tax and 10 components of fringes.
Equipment can have an operator linked to it so the operator is pulled into the estimate automatically whenever the equipment is used.
Replace resources with other resources throughout the estimate.
Renumber (recode) resources throughout the estimate.
Backup and Delete Multiple Estimates at once.
Send biditems to a system of Microsoft Excel Templates as an easy way to have many different proposal formats.
An option to use Microsoft SQL as the backend database.

Features added with HeavyBid/Advanced

More biditem subtotaling techniques to handle virtually any bid proposal.
More advanced equipment tables having fuel consumption, mechanic hours per operating hour, etc.
Elaborate Quote Management System for contractors who take dozens or hundreds of quotes per estimate.
Cost History and Bid History Systems.
Vendor/Contacts System (also used by the Quote System).
Scheduling.
Simple Cash Flow.
Non-additive activities for alternates within a biditem.
Markup different groups of biditems differently.
Holding Accounts to use as work (or holding) areas where costs are accumulated in order to be spread back to specific places within direct cost items. Examples are a batch plant producing concrete, or a trenching backfill operation that is identical in many Biditems.
Manhour adjustments to crews for non-productive hours such as travel time.
Customizable report headings.
Subdivide biditems 9 levels deep.
Export to Microsoft Project, SureTrack, and Primavera.

Features added with HeavyBid/Comprehensive