Trimble Adds New API Capabilities to Accubid Anywhere Estimating Application

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Trimble (TRMB) has announced new API capabilities for its Accubid Anywhere cloud-hosted electrical estimating software. The update introduces five APIs: Project API, Estimate API, Final Price API, Extension API, and Bid Breakdown API, designed to enhance data analysis and collaboration for electrical contractors.

The new APIs enable automated connectivity between estimating and related systems, including ERP, project management, and CRM, eliminating manual data transfer. Key features include the ability to extract project details, capture estimate information, compare initial estimates with final prices, send bills of materials to other software, and analyze detailed bid breakdowns.

Hunt Electric, a national electrical firm, reports using these APIs to better understand bid creation and compare estimates against actual job execution. The APIs are now available in North America for Accubid Anywhere subscribers.

Positive

• Introduction of 5 new APIs enhancing product functionality and market competitiveness
• Expansion of software capabilities reducing manual work and improving operational efficiency
• Real-world implementation success demonstrated through Hunt Electric case study

Negative

• availability to North America region only
• Requires existing Accubid Anywhere subscription for access

Automated connectivity enhances data analysis and collaboration for electrical contractors

WESTMINSTER, Colo., April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble^® (Nasdaq: TRMB) today announced the availability of new application programming interfaces (APIs) for Trimble Accubid^® Anywhere, a cloud-hosted estimating software for electrical projects. These connection capabilities help electrical contractors better collect, analyze and share data to improve estimating insight and collaboration across the construction lifecycle.

Five Accubid Anywhere APIs provide a comprehensive suite that helps estimators pull bid data into dashboards and reporting for analysis and improvement of estimating efforts:

• A Project API provides a list of projects with the project details that can be extracted to other software.
• An Estimate API captures all of the estimate information for users to extract into their ERP, including a list of estimates with their details and bid summaries.
• A Final Price API allows users to compare initial estimates and final prices for different projects.
• An Extension API allows users to send bill of materials (BOM) to other software.
• A Bid Breakdown API enables users to more easily retrieve and analyze data points such as field, shop and incidental labor from closeout screens at a line-item level of detail.

Automated API connectivity from estimating to related systems — including ERP, project management and CRM — also eliminates manual data transfer, allowing contractors to collaborate and work more efficiently across workflows.

With robust estimating functionality, integrated graphical takeoff, change order management, pricing, submittal management, and more, Accubid Anywhere helps electrical estimators bid with speed and accuracy.

The expanding suite of Accubid Anywhere APIs reflects Trimble's commitment to bringing benefits of data connectivity to contractors using systems from Trimble and from other suppliers within construction technology ecosystems.

"Estimates generate a high volume of valuable data that should be analyzed and used in other workflows, but this data often gets trapped in the estimating system," said Lawrence Smith, vice president, construction management systems at Trimble. "Using APIs to extract and connect data automatically to other systems means contractors don't have to import, export or manually re-type the information. This improves efficiency and decision making on both the project and operational level."

"Accubid Anywhere APIs allow us to see who created projects and estimates, along with where and when they were created for a better understanding of our bids," said Beau Brenno, director of business Intelligence / artificial Intelligence at Hunt Electric, a national electrical design, build, and maintenance firm based in Minnesota. "We are in the process of connecting those estimates to the jobs they become to compare how we estimated versus how the job was executed. This gives us much greater insight into where the estimate went right, where it went wrong and how we can improve estimates in the future."

Availability
Trimble Accubid Anywhere APIs are available in North America to customers with an Accubid Anywhere subscription.

More technical information is available on the Developer Documentation website at: https://developer.trimble.com/docs/accubid-anywhere.

For more information on Trimble Accubid Anywhere electrical estimating software, visit:  https://mep.trimble.com/en/electrical-solutions/estimating-and-takeoff/trimble-accubid-anywhere.

About Trimble
Trimble is transforming the ways people move, build and live. Core technologies in positioning, modeling and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve our customers' productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. For more information about Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.

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FAQ

What are the 5 new APIs introduced in Trimble's Accubid Anywhere software?

The new APIs are: Project API for project details, Estimate API for bid summaries, Final Price API for estimate comparisons, Extension API for BOM transfers, and Bid Breakdown API for detailed labor analysis.

How do the new TRMB Accubid Anywhere APIs benefit electrical contractors?

The APIs enable automated data transfer between systems, improve estimating insight, enhance collaboration, and allow contractors to analyze bid data more effectively without manual data entry.

When and where are Trimble's new Accubid Anywhere APIs available?

The APIs are available as of April 2025 in North America for customers with an Accubid Anywhere subscription.

What specific data can contractors analyze using TRMB's new Accubid APIs?

Contractors can analyze project details, bid summaries, initial vs. final prices, bills of materials, and detailed breakdowns of field, shop, and incidental labor costs.