Priscilla- we can get online about this if you would like. First, remember that the Bid Items live in the Takeoff, Proposals and some Billing, but NOT in Budgets, Costs, POs, Subcontracts, etc.  Bid Item 0 can be associated to one of your phases, or it could have many phases. Think of it like a grid. it sounds like you want Phase 1 to be also Bid item 1, Phase 2 to be Bid item 2 etc? You "could" do that but you don't have to. Remember your Phases can live all the way through the job (costs- items listed above). Let me know if you want to discuss -Pam