Tracking quotes or estimates

[cdillard]

Trying to use project to manage home construction. Need suggestions for
handling estimates from multiple vendors. For example, I get three
estimates on sheetrock. Each will have a different price and time
estimate. I want them in the project as estimates before I determine
which one becomes the actual choice. I've tried using different Cost1
Cost2 fields but cannot see how to get them to sum properly.
Suggestions appreciated.

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

You might be best off with Excel, but the Cost fields should work. When you
customize them (i.e. right click on the column header, and select Customize
Field), there are options for how it rolls up to the Summary Bar. That
should work.

Make sure you expose the Project Summary task to get the overall rollup
(Tools > Options > General (I think) > View Project Summary Task)

If you want to track time, you could try the PERT functionality. That
allows you to enter three different time estimates for each task, then gives
you the overall schedule for each option. Check the help screen for that.

Might be a bit of overkill though. Up to you how much work you want to
invest in this.

-A