Bidfident for asbestos abatement contractors
Estimating software for asbestos abatement
Asbestos abatement is priced in containments, linear feet of pipe insulation and square feet of floor tile, with air monitoring running every week the containment is up. Bidfident lets you price each removal line with abatement worker hours, poly and supplies with waste, and negative air machines at their own hours. ACM waste disposal goes in as a sub, and weekly air monitoring and supervision follow the schedule.
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Sound familiar?
Air monitoring left at the old number of weeks
The schedule slips from 5 weeks to 6, and the air monitoring and supervisor lines still show 5. In Bidfident weekly items linked to the job duration follow it, so the extra week is priced.
Equipment hours that don't match the work
Negative air machines run around the clock while the containment is up, far longer than the abatement crew works, but a spreadsheet row has room for only one set of hours. In Bidfident each line's equipment can have its own hours per unit, apart from the crew's.
Hours typed wrong on one line
One pipe insulation line goes in at 0.018 hours a foot instead of 0.18, and nobody spots it before the bid goes out. For a line picked from your library, lines to check flags hours or a material price more than 25% off the library's, a line that comes to zero or a missing quantity, so you look before you send.
How Bidfident fits your work
Air monitoring by the week
Put the industrial hygienist's air monitoring and the abatement supervisor in by the week, linked to the job duration. Add a week to the schedule and both follow.
Negative air machines at their own hours
Give the containment line's negative air machine its own hours per square foot. It runs around the clock while the containment is up, so it's charged for its own hours, not the crew's.
Pipe by the linear foot, tile by the square foot
Units are free text, so glove-bag pipe insulation goes in by the LF, floor tile and mastic by the SF and decon units by the EA. Each line adds up hours and material as you go.
ACM waste disposal as a sub
Enter each hauler's bid for transport and disposal. The lowest is flagged and carried, or pick another. No bid yet? Carry a plug number.
Checks before the abatement bid goes out
Lines with no cost code, no quantity, a total of zero, hours with a zero rate, or hours or a material price more than 25% off the library's are flagged, so a mistyped pipe insulation or floor tile rate gets a second look. Mark a line as right and it stays quiet.
Contingency for hidden asbestos
Carry a contingency for asbestos found behind walls and above ceilings, then fee, bonding and insurance on the subtotal after fee. Every amount is exact to the cent.
Worked example: asbestos abatement of pipe insulation and floor tile at a school
A made-up job, priced in Bidfident: 27 lines of your own work, 4 subs and 6 general conditions items over a 6-week job. The 5 lines this page talks about are listed one by one, and the rest are added up in one row. It's the same job you can open as an example project in Bidfident, so every figure below matches it.
To open this job in Bidfident: sign in and set up your company in the US, then on the Projects screen, under Example project, pick "Demolition and abatement" and "Asbestos abatement" and press Add example project.
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
Containment, poly walls and negative air, 15,000 SF
| $19,350.00 |
Decon unit, set up and removed, 3 ea
| $4,500.00 |
Remove pipe insulation, glove bag, 2,230 LF
| $26,760.00 |
Remove floor tile and mastic, 13,450 SF
| $14,795.00 |
Final cleaning and encapsulation, 19,900 SF
| $6,567.00 |
22 more lines of your own work
| $93,017.14 |
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
ACM waste transport and disposal
| $11,400.00 |
Mechanical isolation and draining of heating
| $3,080.00 |
Electrical isolation and temporary lighting
| $3,424.00 |
Destructive survey of stairwell ceiling voids, allowance
| $2,000.00 |
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
Abatement supervisor
| $10,200.00 |
Air monitoring, third-party industrial hygienist
| $11,700.00 |
Standby generator for negative air
| $1,824.00 |
Respirator fit tests and medical exams
| $1,056.00 |
State notification and permits
| $400.00 |
Mobilization and demobilization
| $2,560.00 |
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
Own work
| $164,989.14 |
| Excluded lines, not counted | $5,190.30 |
| Subcontractors | $19,904.00 |
General conditions
| $27,740.00 |
Direct cost
| $212,633.14 |
Contingency
| $17,010.65 |
Fee
| $27,557.25 |
| Subtotal before the bond | $257,201.04 |
Bond
| $3,858.02 |
Insurance
| $2,572.01 |
Bid total
| $263,631.07 |
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Questions
Can air monitoring follow the job duration?
Yes. Put it in as a weekly general conditions item linked to the job duration. Change the weeks and it updates, part weeks included.
Can I price pipe insulation by the LF and floor tile by the SF?
Yes. Units are free text, so each line can use its own unit. Bidfident doesn't convert between units.
Can I add poly and supplies with a waste factor?
Yes. Each line has a material price and a waste percentage, and the material total includes the waste.
Can I price a decon unit as a single item?
Yes. Use EA with hours and material per unit, or save it as an assembly in your rate library so it fills a whole line at once.
Can I carry ACM waste disposal before the haulers bid?
Yes. Carry a plug number for the disposal sub, then enter each hauler's bid as it comes in. The lowest is flagged and carried unless you pick another.
Can negative air machines run longer than the crew works?
Yes. Give the containment line's equipment its own hours per unit, more than the crew's when the machines run around the clock. Leave it blank and they run for the crew's hours.
Does Bidfident work with Claude or ChatGPT?
Not yet, but it's coming. You'll be able to connect Bidfident to your own Claude or ChatGPT account and ask about your estimates in plain English. The answers will come from Bidfident's own figures, so they match the estimate. It will use the account you already have: Claude first, ChatGPT to follow.
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