MARK SYSTEMS IHMS Homebuilder Software gives
your subcontractors a simple, consistent way to
communicate price and contract changes directly to
the purchasing department. Just as importantly, it
completely eliminates data entry of contract
amounts and unit prices!

Create estimated budgets in seconds
Budgets for both base house products and individual options, including custom options, can be developed in MARK SYSTEMS IHMS Home Builder
Mark Systems IHMS Homebuilder Software generates bid worksheets in Excel Purchasing Software almost instantly by leveraging previous historical experience. Any previous budget, for any product in any company or community, can be used as a template for estimated budgets. For Custom Options, any previous custom option or standard option can be used as a template. Once initialized, budget detail can be updated either manually (for those items that will not generate a Purchase Order or Work Order, like permits), from Contracts or from Supplier Prices in combination with Take Offs (Material Lists).

Leveraging the power of it's single data base, MARK SYSTEM IHMS Homebuilder Software lets estimators, contract administrators and purchasing agents create trade or vendor specific Bid Worksheets instantly, based on the estimated budgets for all of the products within a community or across an entire company. Generated as xml, the Bid Worksheets are automatically sent to Excel, where they can be emailed direclty to the recipients or posted to MARK SYSTEMS IHMS Subcontractor Internet Portal for later access.

Bid Worksheets perform three major functions;

• They standardize bids across each trade, so that every subcontractor or supplier delivers pricing information in the same format
• They simplify bid development by subcontractors, because they specify every price required for all selected products
• They eliminate redundant data entry - simply copy and paste accepted bids directly into the IHMS Contract file.

Bid management is by far one of the most time consuming areas of home builder purchasing. For most builders, this means creating dozens of spreadsheets by trade, subcontractor and product, time consuming interpretation of the bids, and redundant data entry of the bid prices. MARK SYSTEMS IHMS Homebuilder Purchasing Software eliminates these steps, replacing them with an automated bid process that ensure accurate, timely pricing. Once a Bid Worksheet has been reviewed and accepted, the bid prices can be posted to the Contract System by importing the accepted spreadsheet, or simply copying and pasting the accepted prices. MARK SYSTEM IHMS Homebuilder Purchasing Software maintains unlimited contract history for each bid item for each trade partner, giving you a historic view of price trends and ensuring that the proper prices are used when Work Orders are generated.

Whether you're a high-volume production builder, a high-end custom builder or anywhere in between, MARK SYSTEMS IHMS Home Builder Software gives you the tools you need to control costs, streamline purchasing and reduce employee effort. Using the same data base as all MARK SYSTEMS modules, MARK SYSTEMS IHMS Purchasing Software lets you build more houses, more accurately, with less personnel than any other software tool.

The Bottom Line: MARK SYSTEMS Bid Management software improves bid accuracy and eliminates contract data entry!

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