Our Contractor Services:

• Custom Home Designs
• Easy-Access Home Designs
• Project Manual and Specifications development
• Access to e-Bid and our electronic file sharing capabilities
  

Benefits:

• Market Expansion
• Product Differentiation
• Improved Public Relations and Perceptions
• Time and Money Savings Through Electronic File Transfers
  o Cut Distribution and Reproduction Costs
  o Review and Markup Plans at Your Convenience
  o Speed Turn-Around Time
  o Facilitate Communication
• Project Manual
  o Helps Prevent Disputes
  o Establishes Contractual Relationships Between Parties
  o Completes the Set of Construction Documents by Including:

1. Bid Form
2. Construction Agreements
3. Specifications

E-BID And Electronic File Transfers

As a customer, you will have proprietary access to the e-Bid area of our site. At your request, we will upload a package to the site containing your project drawings, specifications, and a viewer for your subcontractors and / or customers use in viewing the drawings. These packages will be password protected and only the people you want to view the material will have access.

The e-Bid area may be used in many ways, but we developed this service to assist you during the bidding process. Our Project Manual has an Invitation to Bid included with the front-end documents. You may send the Invitation to Bid, with instructions on how to find and download your package, to your subcontractors for their use in bidding on the project. Its easy, fast, and saves you time and money in reproducing and delivering your plans and specs for bid.

Another way of using our electronic file transfer capability is during the design process. Through the use of a free viewer, preliminary drawings may be viewed, printed, electronically marked-up, shared with your client, etc. and sent back to our designers for revision. Questions and plan development can be handled without physical meetings, coordinating schedules, and, again, saving your most precious resource: Time.

Your Competitive Advantage

The 2001 Census Bureau report on Americans with Disabilities showed that 19.7% of the US population has some level of disability and 12.3% of the population has a severe disability, with the likelihood of disability increasing with age. Of those 15 years or older, 2.2 million use a wheelchair and another 6.4 million use some other type of ambulatory aid. These statistics alone suggest how the addition of our Easy-Access Designs may help you differentiate your product and give your company the competitive advantage.

But it is not just persons with disabilities who benefit from Easy-Access Design. Children and busy adults alike benefit from the added safety and convenience that Easy-Access Design provides. Click here to find out more about Easy-Access Design.

As you know, the Project Manual is a very important component of your Contract Documents. As a customer, you have access to our templates for your project specific use, or you may provide us with your own electronic manual and specs to upload to our e-Bid site. See our Project Manual page for more details.