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1. A communication system, comprising:
an estimating system that includes:
an estimator interface, the estimator interface providing a communication device with information related to a basket of goods and further receiving, from the communication device, attributes associated with the basket of goods for a work item; andan estimate attribute builder that receives the attributes associated with the basket of goods for the work item and creates estimate attributes for the basket of goods; and a matching system that includes:
a contractor interface, the contractor interface providing a communication device with information related to items in the basket of goods and further receiving, from the communication device, a contractor's pricing for the basket of goods on an averaged basis;an attribute translation engine that translates the estimate attributes for the basket of goods to an averaged price;a matching engine that compares the translated estimate attributes with the contractor's pricing for the basket of goods to determine if the contractor that provided the contractor's pricing for the basket of goods is qualified to perform the work item; anda messaging engine that notifies at least one of the contractor, an estimator that provided the attributes associated with the basket of goods for the work item, and a customer associated with the work item about the determination made by the matching engine. |
