Sirius Estimating is designed for quick and accurate assembly of all aspects of a project into a complete bid. When you receive the contract, the estimate can be automatically transferred to Sirius Job Cost and Item (AIA) Billing applications. Sirius Estimating is designed around the estimating database, which you can build manually, load from your Sirius Inventory, or load from one of several supported pricing services. Using the database, you can build and update item assemblies (bill of materials) to speed the creation of an estimate.

The takeoff (estimate input/update) is on-line and enables you to enter items, call in assemblies, or select items from the database with ease. Costs are controlled by labor, material, and four other user defined cost types within each phase of the project. Labor rates, labor fringes, taxes, overhead and profit are automatically calculated for each item. Estimate templates can also be set up to be called in and modified as needed.

Multiple estimators are handled within Sirius Estimating and each estimators' projects are kept separate while all have access to the common database and assemblies.

BENEFITS

	Build Phases by Units or Detail items (take-off)
	Easy build of Estimate with line item or assembly database take-off
	Transfer to Sirius GT Job Cost for budgets and audit trail costing
	Transfer to Sirius Item (AIA) Billing
	Import many databases with item cost and labor factor

SPECIFICATIONS

	Job Number - 5 alpha/numeric
	Phase Number - 6 alpha/numeric
	Cost Category - Labor plus 5 user-defined
	Number of Jobs (Estimates) - limited only by disk space
	Number of Phases per Job (Estimate) - limited only by disk space
	Number of Detail Entries per Phase - limited only by disk space
	Assembly - 5 alpha/numeric
	Number of Assemblies - limited only by disk space
	Database Item - 10 alpha/numeric
	Number of Database Items - limited only by disk space

INPUT & MAINTENANCE

	Select estimate to work on by estimator
	On-line takeoff of estimate: Input new items Change and delete items Call in assemblies with quantity and labor adjustment control Modify assemblies after call
	Multiple line-item takeoff from database
	On-screen calculator function
	Go to specific line items and change data (quantity, item, price, etc.)
	Summary input by phase
	Search function

ASSEMBLIES

	Select assembly from list or create new assembly
	On-line add, change, delete with full-screen cursor movement
	Database lookup function
	Print one or all assemblies
	Update assembly costs from database
	Copy a previous assembly

REPORTS

	Estimate summary inquiry by: Drawing/reference number Phase number Item number
	Estimate summary report by: Drawing/reference number Phase number Item number
	Estimate detail report by: Drawing/reference number Phase number Item number
	To-order worksheet for quotes, buy-outs, and inventory issues

UTILITIES

	Database maintenance
	Transfer estimate to JOB COST
	Transfer estimate to ITEM BILLING
	Transfer estimate to another company
	Copy a previous estimate or estimate template
	Transfer inventory to/from database
	Import database from pricing services