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Electrical Estimating Software

Fast, Accurate Bids
Without the Hassle

Quickly create more profitable bids with a user-friendly solution featuring an electrical item database, material pricing data, electronic on-screen plan takeoff, and job costing tools.

What is electrical estimating software?

Bid Large Jobs with Confidence

Take on large commercial jobs effortlessly with custom & prebuilt assemblies that help you ensure nothing gets missed.

Use our bid analysis & advanced substitution features to quickly adjust labor or material costs so every bid is competitive, yet profitable so you never have to rely on third party estimators again.

Confident Electrical Contractor bidding larger jobs with Electrical Bid Manager software.

One Easy Solution That Scales As You Grow

ELECTRICAL ESTIMATING

Cut your Estimating Time in Half!

Electrical Bid Manager™ is affordable, easy-to-learn electrical estimating software for jobs of all sizes.

  • Use prebuilt & custom assemblies to improve consistency
  • Calculate material & labor costs with up-to-date pricing data.
  • Create competitive bids with only the details you want to present
  • Choose cloud or on-premise software
MATERIAL PRICING

Always Accurate Pricing

Easily keep your bid prices updated using data form EPIC material pricing

  • Get up-to-date pricing on more than 2 million electrical items
  • Automatically update pricing in your estimates
  • Ensure pricing from your suppliers is fair
  • Use actual pricing from your suppliers
  • Access over 600,000 electrical items linked to manufacturer catalog pages for fast submittal creation.
ELECTRICAL TAKEOFF

Improve Accuracy & Consistency with Electronic Takeoff

We offer seamless integration to On-Screen Takeoff® and PlanSwift® so you can ditch expensive, outdated paper plans & takeoff faster.

  • Fast & accurate from takeoff to estimate
  • Organize takeoffs with color coded markers & easy to use editing tools.
  • Effortlessly track changes

Work Smarter, Not Harder

Streamline your estimating without sacrificing consistency or accuracy with automatic calculations, the ability to set up different labor rates, and more.

Vision even syncs with QuickBooks and JOBPOWER to eliminate double entry and improve your job costing.

Easily adjust markup, add nonproductive labor

User Friendly

With an intuitive interface, various training options, and a friendly, local support team, you’ll be up and running in no time.

Detailed Reporting

Bid proposals, job extensions, material lists, price comparison, bill of quantities, and so many more reports are included in Electrical Bid Manager.

Robust Security

Robust security measures to protect sensitive project data. Managed access for every estimator. Software license platform lets you use your software from anywhere.

Better Cost Tracking

Save time & improve job cost tracking with our integrations to QuickBooks and JOBPOWER. Use bid data to implement Job Cost tracking in your business.

# 1 Estimator Experience

Designed by electrical estimators like you, Electrical Bid Manager™ is fast and accurate. It’s also incredibly easy to use and learn - that’s why estimators love it. We offer smart, time-saving features and various training options to help make setup and implementation a breeze.

Electrical Contractors of All Sizes Trust Vision Infosoft

Accurately bid everything from a small service upgrade to a multi-million dollar commercial job with Electrical Bid Manager™.

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WSI Southwest Inc
Customer Spotlight

"Our business is growing nicely. I honestly feel like part of that is Vision InfoSoft. It’s helping me win some of these projects from hospitals to the storage warehouse projects."

Dave Gomez | Division Manager
Peachtree Electrical Services

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"Anybody with any electrical estimating experience can estimate an entire skyscraper with the full EBM Pro package. It’s good enough to do whatever you want.”

Tom Gerrety
Gerrety Systems Inc.

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H&R Electric officeCustomer Spotlight

“With EBM my time savings is at least 80 percent. Now, instead of having to take a whole week to bid a job worth $40K we can do it in a very short time.”

Jake Hepfler
H&R Electric

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Electrical estimating software should be fully customized to meet an estimator's needs to bid on electrical work. Some"estimating software that does electrical" can bid for many trades.  However, electrical work requires hundreds and thousands of different materials and labor on a bid.

The key is to find electrical estimating software specializing in bidding on electrical work. This ensures you have:

  1. custom-built assemblies to save time
  2. weekly electrical material price updates
  3. takeoff filtering (e.g. choose 2" conduit and only see 2" connectors/etc.)
  4. count and measure PDF electrical plans
  5. training offered by an experienced electrical estimator
  6. a support team that can answer electrical estimating specific questions 

Vision InfoSoft's Electrical Bid Manager was made from the ground up to bid electrical work. Try a demo today or have a Vision InfoSoft representative give you a live demo.

Yes!

Electrical Bid Manager™ can be used on Windows virtual machines in the cloud. These services are offered by Microsoft, V2Cloud, and other providers.

Our support team is happy to help guide you on using your software on your local computer or in the cloud!

Yes!  Our electrical estimating software has built-in integration with the two leading digital plan takeoff tools. Call us to discuss how PlanSwift will empower your takeoff process. (800) 258-7752

Yes! Electrical Bid Manager (EBM) includes over 10,000 items with updated material pricing and labor.  EBM also includes tools to help calculate and add labor overhead.

We offer multiple methods to update your item pricing in Electrical Bid Manager 

  1. EPIC Pricing System
    We offer this pricing data update service at subscription frequencies that fit your needs.  Once set up, a couple simple clicks and your pricing is updated.
  2. Your Supplier's Pricing
    We help you get Custom Price Files (CPF) from your supplier. The CPF can be imported into EPIC to provide a secondary source of pricing data.
  3. Self Management
    You can always manage the price updates manually. While this isn't as time effective.  Our estimating software gives you to tools to manage it.
  4. NetPricer
    We also integrate with NetPricer if you are currently using their service.  NetPricer combined with EPIC offers one of the most thorough pricing options yet.

By the way, EPIC also updates our Time & Material Billing Manager.

Get started for less than $1,000/year. Give us a call or email sales@visioninfosoft.com.  Let's discuss the best bidding, billing, and pricing options.  We also have interest-free payment plans that fit your cash flow requirements. 

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