From drawings to a priced tender, in three steps

Tendering shouldn't need you to become an estimator on top of running your actual jobs. Most contractors don't have a quantity surveyor sitting idle between live contracts, so pricing gets squeezed into evenings, weekends, whatever's left after the day job. That's how shortcuts creep in, not because anyone's careless, but because there simply isn't time to measure everything the way it deserves.

Here's what the process looks like when it's not falling on you alone.

Step one: you send the drawings

You send over whatever you've got, drawings, spec, any schedules that exist. You don't need to package it up or interpret it first. If it's what you'd hand a quantity surveyor, it's what we need.

Step two: we measure and price it

We measure every element off the drawings to NRM2, groundworks through to finishes and external works, and price it against current UK rates. Nothing's estimated from a rough multiplier and nothing's folded into a guess because it was awkward to measure. What comes back is a breakdown you can check against the drawings yourself, line by line.

Step three: you bid on your deadline

You get the priced breakdown back in good time for your submission date, whether that's next Friday or further out, and you tender from a number you can defend rather than one you're hoping holds. No interpreting a rough total. No wondering what's been left out. Just a number built to be checked.

Why this beats doing it all yourself under deadline

Three steps, and the measuring's off your plate entirely. You're still the one who knows the client, the site, the trades you'll bring in. What you're not doing is spending your evening scaling drawings and guessing at rates while a deadline closes in.

Send your drawings and we'll take it from there, measured to NRM2 and priced against current UK rates. Send your drawings for a fixed fee quote, agreed before we start. See a sample estimate to see exactly what comes back at the end of the process.

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