Select Options: New Database Update Options

You use these options to control the format of items and the audit report.

Items in this window

Note: The items that appear in this window depend on the options that you select.

Cost Method for Repricing the Database

Crew

Note: This feature is available only if you have a license to use Crews.

Select this option to set up complete crew and productivity information for the item. Each item has:

  • A productivity rate (also known as labor or equipment conversion). This is calculated from the Means Daily Output for the item.
  • A complete crew set up in the crew field. (Any necessary labor and equipment resources are added to your labor/equipment resources grid. Rates for resources are set up in a rate table named after the currently selected Means Integrator Cost Data file.)
  • An order unit of Hour.
  • An hourly rate in the Labor and Equipment price field (calculated from the Means daily crew costs).

Hourly

Select this option to set up only productivity, order unit, and labor/equipment price for the item. Each item has:

  • A productivity rate (also known as labor or equipment conversion). This is calculated from the Means Daily Output for the item.
  • An order unit of Hour.
  • An hourly rate in the Labor and Equipment price field (calculated from the Means daily crew costs).

Unit

Select this option to update only the cost per unit (for example, $/sqft). These unit costs are equivalent to the item costs shown in the Means Cost Data books.

Select the Categories You Want to Reprice

In this section, select the checkbox beside each category that you want to reprice in the existing database.

Apply Overhead and Profits to Prices

This option controls whether to include the cost of overhead and profits when updating item prices.

Note: The option is not available if you selected Crews as the cost method.

Including the cost of overhead and profits when updating item prices
Setting Result

o

Does not include the cost of overhead and profits in the item prices. Item prices are equal to the "Total" column in the Means Cost Data book.

☑

Includes the cost of overhead and profits in the item prices by spreading it over each of the item's cost categories. (Means Integrator automatically selects all the cost categories, Labor, Material, Equipment and Other, for repricing.) Item prices are equal to the "Total Incl O & P" column in the Means Cost Data book.

Note: Means Integrator does not apply overhead and profits to items that use crew pricing.

Update Labor and Equipment Crews and Rates

Select the checkbox if you want to update labor and equipment crews and rates.

Apply RSMeans phase codes to Job Cost phase of item records.

This option controls whether to transfer the Means phase codes into the Job Cost phase fields found in item records.

Transfer Means phase codes into existing Job Cost phase fields
Setting Result

☐

Does not apply Means phase codes to item records.

☑

Applies Means phase codes to item records.

Complete audit

Select this option to report the status of every record updated. The Complete audit report could be fairly large, depending on how many items you update. If you transfer 1,000 items, your report could print up to 40 pages or create a very large file.

Exceptions only

Select this option to report only the status of records that were not updated during integration.