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CES AssessmentCES Assessment
• Review the use of CES from the estimator’s perspective– A day and half on site at Florida, Minnesota,
and Ohio– A half a day at Colorado
• Included hands-on walkthrough of common processes by the Estimators– Included IT representatives– Included Development and Implementation
representatives
EnvironmentEnvironment
• Oracle database (CO Sybase)
• Client– OH – P2, 192 MB, XP– MN – P3, 256 MB, 2000– FL – Citrix MetaFrame servers
• Better Speed– OH network and DB Access– MN client– FL overall
Users and usageUsers and usage
• Where– Combination of central and/or district
• Currently under 12 users per agency– More in the future as CES gets new use in
the districts
• Item level, no parametric
• Mixture of reference prices, bid-based, and cost based pricing
Cost SheetsCost Sheets
Current English/ metric spec year OH MN
Standard Cost Sheets 278 2,053Items 12,049 15,434Items with Cost Sheets 980 1,170Cost Sheets attached to items 3,199 26,308
Bid HistoriesBid Histories
• By time range– 1.5-year, 2-year, and 3-year
• By work type– Asphalt, Bridge, General
• Collapse items– With adhoc
• Minimum occurrences– With using IRANK
WorkflowWorkflow
• Primary process used1) Check out data from PES
– Project, and/or Proposal
2) Bring in tasks from defaults or snapshots
3) Update prices
4) Check-in to PES
• Other– Pavement determination
ResultsResults
• Open in change mode by default
• Button for check-in/check-out
• Include choice to automatically bring in default tasks
• Set so default is to filter/select on Proposal/Project id
• ~14 steps to 2 steps
OverallOverall
• Collected 60+ issues
• Classified and grouped into TMR’s– Created 16 new TMR’s from ~35 issues and
scheduled for release by June 2004– Identified 10 potential TMR’s for CES
enhancements– Identified 10 potential TMR’s for BAMS/DSS
enhancements
• Posted Update in July including top 4 issues from assessment