All of your bid items have been costed out to the penny, you have spread your prorates, calculated your overhead, applied your markups...

Nearly 50 years ago, Warren E Gomes got his start in the construction business when he bought a backhoe and trailer from his father and...

One of the ways SharpeSoft Estimator helps you to define your costs with pinpoint accuracy is by allowing you to customize your fuel and...

If your company is like most heavy civil construction firms, you typically subcontract out some or even most of a project’s bid items....

If you live in California’s central valley you are likely to have run across crews from Emmett Valley Construction, Inc.; one of the...

When bidding on public works projects, contractors need to comply with federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) requirements, as...

Jim Crawford attributes the nearly four decades of continuous success and growth of his family’s namesake company to the simple down to...

Counts and Dobyns, Inc. (a SharpeSoft client since 2010) has been a familiar fixture in Virginia since they first began offering...

In 1999, Rudy Ruiz started La Strada Contracting, offering grading, paving and concrete services throughout southern California. In the...

Although we discourage using spreadsheets for actual cost estimating (see our blog, Cast off Your Old Tired Spreadsheets), they are still...

The Audit Trail is a cool little security feature in Estimator that allows you to monitor the changes made to a job in real time, from...

Before starting his own company, Dave Ramsey spent years honing his skills as a general superintendent for one of the top civil...

It's true, there is seldom only one way to approach a task and cost estimating for heavy civil construction is no exception. In fact, the...

Here’s a shout out to Anderson Dragline, a SharpeSoft client since 2008 and a recognized leader in heavy civil construction throughout...

One thing that sets SharpeSoft off from other construction management and cost-estimating software developers is that basic training on...

Creating a job estimate can be a tedious and time-consuming task that can take hours, if not days or even weeks. If you have ever...

If you are an Arizona company, or your firm routinely bids jobs in the Grand Canyon state, then you are subject to their unique way of...

If your company does a lot of trench work, you know that planning a trench can be a complicated and time-consuming process. Accounting...

Thirty years ago, spreadsheets were revolutionary cutting-edge software that changed the way businesses manage their finances. They...

WE'RE PROUD OF OUR CLIENTS! SharpeSoft has been in the cost estimating business for more than three decades, and we have built a client...