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One of the difficulties facing companies that want to do business with the federal government is understanding all the jargon and formats used to describe and categorize project costs and budgets.

Companies that want to be competitive need to sharply refine their project estimating techniques and often have to add extra reporting and tracking to accommodate government contracting methods.

This course provides a comprehensive review of government terminology and clearly illustrates how all the parts of the government cost review are intended to fit together. By understanding how the government views your costs you can bid smarter and win more jobs at higher margins.

Learn advanced government project estimating techniques, tools, templates, and methods that you can use to quickly improve your estimating skills so you can win more government contracts at higher margins.

Register today for this seminar and get the foundation you need to be successful. Click here to register.

1. How to break the code of how Government views costs in contracting
2. Demystify Management Reserves and Fees in Government projects
3. Learn to critically read and analyze the RFP for scoping
4. Expertly perform a quantity take-off and compare to RFP quantities
5. Get a simple format and tools to develop your cost estimates
6. Unscramble the complex components of labor estimating and productivity
7. Learn to develop labor cost elements in a composite wage rate
8. Simple ways to build up material composite rates including wastes & shipping
9. Why to use subcontractors and how to represent subcontract costs
10. How to unwind the elements of both rented and owned equipment costs
11. The different types of overheads and burdens and how to estimate them
12. How and where to show and use burdens and overheads
13. How to summarize your estimates and check them like the pros
14. Unlocking parametric estimating factors and learning to use them
15. The different types of government contracts and how they affect your contracting estimating considerations

Agenda - Session 1:
Overall US Government Budget
Fed Biz Ops - The Feds RFP Process and the Competitive Range
US Government Estimating and Contracting Jargon & Concepts
Work Breakdowns Structures & Takeoffs - the Schedule Connection
Basic Scoping - the RFP, SPECS, Standards, Drawings, and Requirements
Quantity Take-Offs, Counting Methods, Scaling, Volumes and Areas
Questions and Clarifications - preparing RFC or RFIs
Agenda - Session 2:
Material Cost Elements: Estimating Material Prices, Shipping, Delivery & Commitments
Labor Cost Elements: Estimating Unit Man-Hours, Installation Rates, Productivity Factors
Labor Billing Rates, Crew Makeup, and Staffing Crew Up Labor Billing Rates
Production Estimating
Owned Equipment, Rental Equipment, and Subcontracts
Agenda - Session 3:
Definitions of Overheads, Indirect Costs, Profits, & Mark Ups
The difference between Field & Job Overheads, G&A, and COM
Management Reserve, Risks, Escalation and Contingencies
Parametric Estimating, Calculating Metrics, Summarizing & Checking
How to develop your Estimating Knowledge Repository

If you are serious about winning Government contracts you need to understand government jargon and learn how to build and display a comprehensive estimate. This seminar will benefit will benefit a wide variety of organizations in the electric power, utility, financial and energy industries, including executives, sales professionals, large and small business owners, procurement managers, technology managers, engineers, and cost accountants, as well as business area experts and business managers looking to sell complex technical systems.

This fundamental level, group live seminar has no prerequisites. No advance preparation is required before the seminar.

PGS seminars are known for their clear explanations and in-depth content. Register for a PGS class today, and join the over 10,000 energy professionals who have already attended one of PGS's proven programs. View Past Seminar Attendees

Mr. Custer has served as CIO and systems strategy planner and has operated his professional consulting, estimating, and management services company for over 20 years and has estimated, scheduled, and managed numerous technical projects and program offices including on-shore and off-shore staffing for companies such as Keane, IMRglobal, and Computer Aid Inc. Additionally, Mr. Custer has directly provided professional estimating Bechtel, SWEC, Comanco, Oracle, and Marriott as well as for numerous utilities customers such as FPL, NUSCO, MPL, Centerior, TECO, PECO, PPL, PSEG, SMUD, and GSU service.

$395 for the first attendee and $295 for the second attendee, and $195 for each attendee thereafter.

Special discounts are available for groups of 10 or more. Please call Janice Ohmura for details at (412) 521-4737.

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