Contract Costs and Pricing Proposals
ESTI-MATE© organizes costs by a work breakdown structure (WBS), that can be cross-related to construction work types such as hull, equipment, piping, electrical, paint and more. It will also complement an optional product work breakdown structure, or PWBS, which identifies construction units and modules that are the building blocks of the ship.

Esti-Mate Key Features:

• Develop both new construction and repair/modernization project estimates
  
• Features that support modular construction and out-sourced subcontracting pricing options
  
• Organizes costs by work breakdown structures
  
• Cross-related to construction zones and product modules
  
• Libraries available to use as standardized work packages
• Parametric functions that reflect actual manufacturing and construction rates
  
• The system accommodates multiple project contracts
  
• Time-phase pricing and rates across planned construction schedules

The system will allow any number of different contract proposals to be developed in its database, and different estimates can be based on different methods used. Likewise, estimates of alternative proposal configurations and options can be generated, adding to the overall flexibility and adaptability of the system.

Unlike other cost estimating systems targeting the civil construction industry, ESTI-MATE is organized and geared strictly for the shipbuilding and repair business.

ESTI-MATE streamlines and expedites the estimating process. The multi-user system supports a wide range of data libraries including shipyard standard work packages, costs from a parts catalog, as well as manual cost entries, and portions of estimates copied from earlier proposals. The system offers automatic features for material cost escalation and adjustable rate tables and can generate estimates in domestic currencies.

ESTI-MATE is fully integrated with other PERCEPTION® modules including WORK-PAC© (labour and manpower management module) and MAT-PAC© (material purchasing and stock supply) to automatically create production budgets and management reserves, work orders and material requisitions. The integrated project management suite is referred to as PERCEPTION.

After contract award, PERCEPTION automatically will compare actual production cost performance against both budgets and the originating estimate. Feedback of actual cost performance by PERCEPTION will provide valuable updates to the estimating cost libraries for better future bidding data.

ESTI-MATE offers links to popular design and engineering systems to electronically download ship systems material requirements that then can be processed and priced for a comprehensive proposal.

ESTI-MATE offers a unique, easy to use, cost risk evaluation that helps to provide more confidence in the price proposal.

For new construction, there are available options of pre-programmed cost models for a variety of ship types (high speed catamarans, trimarans and monohulls, as well as other ship types). These models offer many design options and generate comprehensive cost estimates that detail non-recurring design and detailed engineering and detailed production costs. These models can be updated by the shipyard to better reflect the shipyard’s own cost performance characteristics and build strategies.

PERCEPTION®, ESTI-MATE®, WORK-PAC© AND MAT-PAC© are all trademarks of SPAR Associates, Inc.