Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room A
Start Date
30-4-1997 1:00 PM
Description
The 34th Aerospace spin-off estimating tool is a video—How Did the Successful Low Bidder Get Low to Make Money? or Construction Estimating, Cost Engineering, and Bidding Strategy. Some of the other spin-offs, as presented at the 33rd Space Congress in April 1996, are new exciting tools for estimating fiber optic cable, fine tuning the number of bidder concepts, the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) cost index, six volumes of Joe Brown’s seminar workbooks, five volumes of Aerospace Price Books, four Aerospace Cost Estimating Seminars on “How to Use These Tools and Spin-Offs,” three tools for estimating the cost of remote controls pneumatic panels, and KSC Real Property Inventory [40] of aerospace facilities with over 60 pages of facilities that now shows the current cost of the VAB at over $182 million. This video shows the global competition and costing of five international/global projects with budget and total cost comparisons. This paper and the video document the five new aerospace case studies/stories of how the low bidder got low with over fifteen ways the low bidder got low. The five case studies are: (1) orbiter landing facility, (2) shuttle mods to launch Pad LC 39 - Pad A, (3) LC 39 - Pad B, (4) the Orbiter Processing Facility, and (5) LC-36 - Ready Room Mods.
Paper Session II-A - Spin-Offs in Construction Cost Estimation
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room A
The 34th Aerospace spin-off estimating tool is a video—How Did the Successful Low Bidder Get Low to Make Money? or Construction Estimating, Cost Engineering, and Bidding Strategy. Some of the other spin-offs, as presented at the 33rd Space Congress in April 1996, are new exciting tools for estimating fiber optic cable, fine tuning the number of bidder concepts, the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) cost index, six volumes of Joe Brown’s seminar workbooks, five volumes of Aerospace Price Books, four Aerospace Cost Estimating Seminars on “How to Use These Tools and Spin-Offs,” three tools for estimating the cost of remote controls pneumatic panels, and KSC Real Property Inventory [40] of aerospace facilities with over 60 pages of facilities that now shows the current cost of the VAB at over $182 million. This video shows the global competition and costing of five international/global projects with budget and total cost comparisons. This paper and the video document the five new aerospace case studies/stories of how the low bidder got low with over fifteen ways the low bidder got low. The five case studies are: (1) orbiter landing facility, (2) shuttle mods to launch Pad LC 39 - Pad A, (3) LC 39 - Pad B, (4) the Orbiter Processing Facility, and (5) LC-36 - Ready Room Mods.
