In accordance with the agreement, Accubid will provide its estimating software clients with a limited TRA-SER® Pro data set from Trade Service. Contractors can utilize each product seamlessly, and receive updates with their subscriptions.

“By leveraging Accubid’s industry leading estimating software with Trade Service’s core strengths in content management, contractors can streamline business processes with up-to-date pricing information needed to develop timely and accurate estimates,” said Giovanni Marcelli, President & CEO of Accubid. “We are confident that our partnership with Trade Service will help drive efficiencies and increase profit margins for our clients."

“Because of the depth and breadth of our respective content and software offerings, Trade Service and Accubid are synergistically positioned to enhance value for our contractor clients,” said Tony Dubreville, President and CEO of Trade Service. “Accubid’s extensive experience serving the estimating, change order management, and time & material billing needs of electrical contractors, combined with Trade Service’s rich, standardized content, will positively impact our clients’ bottom-line results.”

About Accubid Systems Ltd.
Accubid Systems is the leading provider of estimating, billing, and change order software for electrical, mechanical, and structured cabling/VDV contractors. Based on the results of the independently conducted 2002 CFMA Information Technology for the Construction Industry survey, Accubid estimating programs were chosen by more than twice as many contractors as the next leading estimating program. Accubid also offers a wide range of professional development courses and product training labs.

About Trade Service
Trade Service Corporation is the leading provider of standardized product and price information to the electrical, plumbing/PVF, HVACR, industrial MRO, and office products industries. Since 1931, the company has been the leader in content acquisition, aggregation, management, publishing, and distribution, offering a variety of products, services, and systems to meet the content needs of over 20,000 distributors, contractors, government agencies and “buy side” Fortune 1000 subscribers. The range of solutions provided includes printed directories, electronic catalogs, pricing data for business system updating, and robust attributed content to fuel full-functioning Internet storefronts. For more information, visit www.tradeservice.com.