RFQ's for lighting

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jmsbrush

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What do you guys do when you have 25 to 75 different types of lighting fixtures when you are preparing for the bid? Each light has a long serial number or description number and the same for the bulb?

I have just been typing the information down, then writing down the appropriate number of fixture's, then faxing to my supply house.
This process is a little slow for me!
Any suggestions?:grin:
 
jmsbrush said:
What do you guys do when you have 25 to 75 different types of lighting fixtures when you are preparing for the bid? Each light has a long serial number or description number and the same for the bulb?

I have just been typing the information down, then writing down the appropriate number of fixture's, then faxing to my supply house.
This process is a little slow for me!
Any suggestions?:grin:
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Photocopy the fixture schedule and fax them to a few supply houses.
 
Fax the lighting schedule around. It's astonishing how quickly you'll get a number back from the supply houses if someone else is bidding those same plans too! :grin: It's a strange feeling to call for pricing on something extra special, and the guy at the supply house knows all about it already.
 
Old school- Xerox engineering.
New way- PDF the plan page with the schedule on it to the supply house.

More often than not the lighting rep already had a number for the package long before you ever saw the plans, providing counts and a schedule is just a formality.
 
we open a job folder in excel. have one spreadsheet with the fixture type in one column and the quanity in the next. if you have the plans electronically e-mail them as an attachment with your excel spreadsheet. if you dont have the plans electronically either cut the fixture schedule out and copy or go to kinkos and for like a few dollars you can get them to make a disc of pdfs. if you are bidding a good size job the supply house will usually already have the fixture schedule from another contractor. so just check your counts and if you see one quanity is off on bid day then just call and get a unit price for that particular fixture. with the gear you can just forward the panel schedules and or riser along with the fixtures. if there are alot of different types of disconnects then take those off on another spreadsheet, which we do sometimes on bigger projects with more than say 20 or so. but any less than that, we have the price of the disconnects figured into our unit price for that particular equipment.
 
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