Our Services
Bid-ready construction cost estimates, not just a takeoff.
A quantity takeoff tells you how much material a project needs. A comprehensive estimate tells you what the project will cost to build and bid. That's the gap our construction estimating services for contractors are built to close.
As a construction estimating company, we work as an extension of your preconstruction team. Whether you're a general contractor pricing a public bid, a trade contractor quoting a scope package, or a construction manager comparing subcontractor proposals, our contractor estimating services deliver a complete cost picture: quantities, material pricing, labor pricing, equipment, subcontractor costs, and a bid summary you can hand straight to ownership or use to compile your final bid.
Our construction cost estimating services are built around your actual drawings and specifications, not generic unit-cost tables applied blindly to a floor plan. Every estimate is scoped, quantified, and priced against the documents you provide, then checked for gaps before it's delivered.
100%
Quality Commitment
98%
Client Satisfaction
Per project
Turnaround quoted
Formatted by CSI division, by trade, or matched to your own bid form - whatever your estimating workflow needs.
Construction bid estimating for hard-bid and negotiated work - estimates built to support a competitive hard bid, a GMP proposal, or a negotiated contract.
Capacity when your estimating team is stretched - take on more bid opportunities without pulling your own estimators off active projects.
Margin protection through detail - assumptions, exclusions, and scope gaps are documented, not buried, so nothing quietly erodes your margin after award.
Every comprehensive estimate is assembled from the same core components, scaled to your project and trade coverage.
Measured, counted, and calculated quantities for every applicable trade, taken directly from your drawings and specs.
Current material costs applied to quantities, with waste factors built into the take-off where a trade typically requires them.
Labor costs developed from productivity rates appropriate to the trade, crew type, and project conditions.
Rental, mobilization, and operating costs for cranes, lifts, and other equipment the scope requires.
Trade scopes priced from subcontractor and supplier quotations when available, or from researched market pricing when they're not yet in hand.
Added on request, shown as a clearly identified line so raw cost and markup are never blended together.
A clean, division-by-division or trade-by-trade summary sheet ready to support your bid submission.
Every assumption made and every item excluded is written down, so scope is never left to memory.
How we handle scope, addenda, and pricing inputs.
Estimate accuracy starts before a single quantity is measured - with a clear read of the documents and an honest account of what they don't tell us.
Comprehensive estimates can include as many or as few trades as your bid requires, from full building scope to a single division.
See plumbing estimating, mechanical estimating, and electrical estimating.
Our construction estimating services for contractors are built to support every role that touches a bid or a budget.
Estimates are delivered as an editable package, so you can adjust pricing, formatting, or scope before it goes into your bid.
DL–01 Detailed quantity takeoffs
Measured quantities by trade, tied back to the drawings they came from.
DL–02 Material and labor cost breakdowns
Costs shown separately so you can see exactly where each dollar sits.
DL–03 Equipment and subcontractor costs
Rental and sub-trade pricing broken out from your self-perform scope.
DL–04 Marked-up drawings
Takeoff markups showing exactly what was measured and where.
DL–05 Trade-wise estimates
Costs organized by trade for easy comparison against sub proposals.
DL–06 CSI division breakdowns
Costs organized by CSI MasterFormat division for standard bid formatting.
DL–07 Bid summary
A single summary sheet totaling the estimate for submission or review.
DL–08 Alternates and allowances
Priced separately from the base bid so they're easy to include or drop.
DL–09 Assumptions, exclusions and clarification notes
A written record of every assumption, exclusion, and open question.
DL–10 Editable Excel report
The full estimate in an editable spreadsheet you can adjust and reuse.
Tools we use to measure and price your estimate. Takeoffs and pricing are built using industry-standard software, current pricing data, and your own project-specific quotes. Bluebeam is used for digital takeoff and markup, PlanSwift and On-Screen Takeoff for quantity takeoff, Trimble for takeoff and estimating, Accubid for electrical and mechanical estimating, Xactimate for restoration and repair, RSMeans for cost data and benchmarking, and Excel for the editable final report. Wherever possible, we build pricing from your own supplier and subcontractor quotations first, using published cost data to fill gaps rather than replace project-specific numbers.
Every project is different, so fees and turnaround are quoted per project rather than fixed to a flat rate.
Upload your drawings and specs, and we'll scope, quantify, and price the project so you can focus on building a competitive bid.
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