HeavyBid® Software Places First for Estimating Software
in the Heavy & Highway Category of CFMA's 2004 IT Survey

HeavyBid® Estimating Software Earns 34% Share in Heavy & Highway Category
For the fifth time in a row HCSS has topped the Construction Financial Management Association's (CFMA) Information Technology Survey for the Construction Industry as the estimating software of choice of heavy/highway contractors. The CFMA Survey, the only objective IT survey for the construction industry, found that HCSS' HeavyBid Estimating and Bidding software is used by 34% of all the heavy/highway contractors that responded, making it the first choice in the industry. Over 50% of heavy/highway contractors with revenue over $100 million use HeavyBid.

The CFMA is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing resources to meet the challenges of construction financial management professionals. They have been conducting this study every 2 years since 1996.

"We've been working for 18 years to provide outstanding software and support to help our customers solve their real business problems" states Mike Rydin, HCSS president. "We now have an outstanding group of employees and this survey demonstrates that they are doing an excellent job."

"There is a reason more heavy/highway contractors rely on HeavyBid," says Vice President of Sales John Davis. "When a customer has a question about our products they can call up our technical support department any time, day or night, 365 days a year and they speak directly to a knowledgeable support technician. Try calling Microsoft on bid day to get a problem resolved with your Excel spreadsheets and you'll see why thousands of contractors large and small choose HeavyBid."

Founded in 1986, HCSS sets the standard for estimating, field management and dispatching software for the infrastructure construction industry, with true 24-hour technical support, on-site training by veteran contractors, and annual user's group meetings attended by hundreds of contractors each year. Thousands of estimators, bidding in excess of $100 billion per year, rely on HCSS products for their ease of use, speed, and precision in performing estimating, field management and dispatching activities.

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* Statistics excerpted from CFMA's 2004 Information Technology Survey for the Construction Industry, fifth editiion with the permission of the Construction Financial Management Association, Princeton, NJ, 609-452-8000. CFMA neither evaluated nor ranked software in terms of performance. The survey should not be construed as advice or opinion of CFMA.