About Costing Manager

Provider costing provides a powerful tool for correctly costing almost any type of provider contract.

It does this flexibly, allowing for ease of setup no matter how many providers you have, and ease of maintenance when contract cost provisions change.

Provider contracts may be negotiated to be based on many different things. For example:
  • costs per run
  • costs per trip
  • costs per stop
  • costs for additional services, such as provision of a stair climber
  • dwell time
  • guarantee time
  • costs that vary by time of day or type of trip

PASS-CT can cost almost any type of provider contract using validities for provider costing. A validity is a time period within a contract term for which distinct pricing rules apply. For example, if there are annual price increases within a five-year contract.

When setting up provider costing, ancillary data must be defined in the following order:
Cost breakdowns
Defines labels for types of costs (for example, travel charge, break charge, dwell time charge) used in reporting.
Provider contracts
Defines the contract periods and lists the validities attached to them.
Provider contract validity details
Defines the following for each provider cost validity:

  • Time periods

  • Rate profiles

  • Run costs

  • Tour costs

  • Activity costs

  • Trip costs

  • Trip quotas

  • Segment costs

To enable Schedule Server to perform provider costing calculations, in SchedSrv, click View > Switches. On the Switches tab, navigate to PASS > SchedSrv > Provider Costing > Enable and set the switch to On. After all provider costing changes have been made, the Schedule Server must be restarted, or you can use the Recalculate costs button in the Provider contract dialog box. If you change the rate profiles retroactively, Schedule Server will recalculate them if you reload the schedule.