Deducts

Planned

Is there any way to count takeoff items as deducts? Occasionally, we have to price bid alternates for various design options which may remove certain items and add back other items. Thanks.

Todd Kaberline zzTakeoff2d 11h

Hi Luke!

Thanks for the question and sorry for the late reply. Currently the only way to apply negative counts is to turn your takeoff assembly into an Item and place a negative in fromnt of your formula. I do know the team is working on assemblies 2.0 and that this will be a welcome addition for alternates.

Luke Cross 2d 9h

Got it. Thanks Todd!

Boone Beagley 2d 6h

My idea for this is that a base bid item or assembly could be designated (in segments or completely) as an alternate deduct, which would then automatically create a negative duplicate to be included in the alternate pricing.

Luke Cross 2d 6h

Yes, that's my idea as well. I'm envisioning a checkbox within the takeoff properties titled "Deducts?" or "Negative Qty?" Which would then convert the takeoff quantity to a negative number.

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Boone Beagley 2d 6h

It would be nice if you could select the points or segments of your takeoff that you want to include in the deduct. So if you had 800 LF of footing in the base bid, but only 50 LF of it would be affected by the alternate, you could select those takeoff points and designate them as part of the deductive alternate.

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