Members of the SharpeSoft team attended the 17th annual Yuba/Sutter Veterans Day Parade on Monday in downtown Marsyville, joining...

The new update of Sharpesoft’s Integrated Project Management (IPM) system is now available. Among the highlights in this update are tools...

We talk to contractors all of the time who, when asked about purchasing cost estimating software, tell us that they simply cannot afford...

Saving time saves you money and SharpeSoft Estimator is loaded with time-saving features – like Bid Item Masters and Subcontractor...

Your database is an organized collection of company, job and resource data that is the foundation of your Estimator system. It is the...

Nordic Industries is a familiar name in building and trucking throughout California, but as a top provider of heavy civil construction...

No time is better than now to do a little basic housekeeping on your SharpeSoft Estimator system. Keeping your resource tables, system...

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...