New Feature: Bid Question Released
Late again!
Late for dinner. Late for a date. Late for the soccer game. Late picking up the kids. Why does it seem we are always playing catch-up no matter how many “time savings” books we read?
The answer:
Communication!
Within the construction industry, individuals face a daily barrage of communication devices and methods: e-mail, office phone, cell phone, office fax, e-fax, text, instant messaging, voicemail, and so on and so forth.
A study, conducted by SIS International Research, involved 513 respondents in Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S. The respondents were “knowledge workers” employed by companies of up to 400 employees in the fields of communications, finance, health care, insurance, manufacturing, “professional,” real estate and wholesale or retail trade. The survey asked respondents how much time they wasted in overcoming various obstacles to communication. Their answer was an astounding average of 17.5 hours per week, or more than 40 percent of their time.
The wasted time took several forms. Inefficient coordination among team members was experienced by 68 percent of respondents and resulted in spending an average of 3.7 hours per week to address this issue. Another big problem was waiting for information from others, which wasted 3.5 hours per week. Other top time-wasters included: dealing with unwanted communications (2 to 3 hours per week); coping with customer complaints about employees’ being unreachable (3.3 hours); and the inaccessibility of, or inability to collaborate with, other employees (3.3 hours).
As Part of our WLB (Work-Life-Balance) methodology, we continue to find areas where we can save you and your team time.
Our newest feature is a simple, but often overlooked, process that occurs on every project sent out for bid. The answering of bid questions submitted by contractors.
No matter how detailed you are in your bid documents, invariably a question will arise during the bid process. This will require you to respond to the question and as well, communicate the question and response to all of the contractors bidding on the project.
Report Hawk’s latest feature continues our focus on increasing time savings, reducing communication errors and redundancy, and ensuring apples-to-apples bid comparisons.
Our new Bid Questions Feature allows bidding contractors, during the ITB stage, to submit bid questions to the owner’s project team. All questions submitted are kept anonymous, thus keeping private the number and names of the contractors bidding on a project.
When a bid question is submitted, the question is e-mailed to the owner’s project team and all bidding contractors. Once a response is provided, it is e-mailed to all bidding contractors. This simplifies the communication process while keeping all bidding contractors in the loop.
To access the bid question feature, login to Report Hawk, select your project and click on the Bid Question Icon to open the feature. To learn more or to schedule and on-line demo of our product please visit us at www.reporthawk.com/contact/ and complete the contact us form.
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