Two new definitions have been added to the Collision Industry Conference (CIC) Wiki Glossary.

CIC members voted last week to add definitions for “estimate” and “repair plan.”

The Wiki Glossary is broken down into categories including general automotive, parts, draft, frame/unibody/structural terms, automotive scan diagnostics, calibration, and programming, insurance, computer, and time. Suggestions for new definitions or edits can be submitted on the glossary website.

Estimate and repair plan/blueprint were submitted by the CIC Estimating and Repair Planning Committee.

Estimate is now defined, by 92% of the membership, as “an initial assessment of vehicle damage which approximates the cost of repairing or replacing the damaged parts, including labor and materials.”

By 78% of the vote, repair plan, also known as “blueprint,” is defined as “a comprehensive vehicle damage assessment of necessary steps and procedures for repair created by the repair facility to determine cost of parts, labor, and materials.”

“One of the defining factors of repair plan or blueprint we felt was that the shop is the purveyor,” said CIC Admin Jordan Hendler. “They are the creator, they are the initiator; they are the only ones that would do that. We felt like that component was really important as a differentiator between estimate and repair plan because then [otherwise] what is the differentiator?”

Definitions Committee Co-Chair Chris Evans said before final definitions to present to the membership were decided on they went through several iterations.

“These definitions were reviewed by both committees and the admin teams,” he said. “They were sent out to the body in advance of this meeting like the last grouping we had and we did get some comments.”

The CIC Wiki definition is not [on] peripheral functions. It serves for outside aspects used to define standards or endorsements. For example, the repair plan would not include OEM procedures though those two things stand alone. They both exist but they’re independent of one another. Our definitions are standalone.”

Hendler added that, as a collective body, CIC doesn’t provide endorsements.

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Featured image: Collision Industry Conference (CIC) Definitions Committee Co-Chair Barry Dorn and CIC Admin Jordan Hendler at CIC’s April 17, 2024 meeting in Seattle, Washington. (Lurah Lowery/Repairer Driven News)