{"id":1192,"date":"2025-01-31T00:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T00:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aparbooks-dzhvcxcdg2cabrcy.northcentralus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:26:26","slug":"accurate-bidding-franchise-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/accurate-bidding-franchise-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Bid Franchise Projects Accurately With APARBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"apar-blog-content\">\n<p class=\"apar-lead\">I'm Jeffery, a construction estimator with more than 10 years in the trade. Most of our customers are franchise businesses, so their projects tend to share materials, equipment, and finishes. That similarity is what makes APARBooks useful for bidding.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-bidding-approach\">The bidding approach<\/h2>\n<p>On a project where five general contractors are competing, I've found a way to keep the bid accurate and competitive while protecting the margin. It comes down to the project schedule page.<\/p>\n<p>I pull the numbers from previous similar projects, work out the actual cost of specific items, and adjust for what's different this time, whether that's a change in material or labor prices. Then I add overhead and profit. It's simple math, but it produces more accurate numbers than the prices in the BNI Cost Books.<\/p>\n<div class=\"apar-faq\">\n<h3 id=\"frequently-asked-questions\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<div class=\"apar-faq-item\">\n<p class=\"apar-faq-question\">How do you bid franchise construction projects accurately?<\/p>\n<p class=\"apar-faq-answer\">Start from the actual item costs on previous similar projects, adjust for changes in material or labor prices, then add overhead and profit. Because franchise projects share materials and finishes, the historical numbers translate well.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"apar-faq-item\">\n<p class=\"apar-faq-question\">Why use past project data instead of a cost book?<\/p>\n<p class=\"apar-faq-answer\">For this estimator, working from the actual costs of previous similar projects produced more accurate bid numbers than the prices in the BNI Cost Books, while still keeping the bid competitive against four other contractors.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I'm Jeffery, a construction estimator with more than 10 years in the trade. Most of our customers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,18,24],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-customer-story","tag-estimate","tag-job-costs","tag-professionalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aparbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}