A tender price you can actually stand behind

You've been here before. The number's due by Friday. You've priced the big-ticket items off memory, guessed the smaller ones, and rounded up a bit "to be safe." You submit it, you win it, and then for the next six months you're hoping the guess was close enough.

That's not a reliable number. It's a hopeful one.

What "reliable" actually means

A reliable estimate isn't one that feels right. It's one you can trace back to the drawings, line by line, and defend if a client or a quantity surveyor pushes back on it. Every quantity comes from somewhere real, not a rough multiplier you carry in your head from the last job. Every rate reflects what labour and materials cost now, this month, not what they cost when you last priced something similar. If you can't show where a number came from, you can't really trust it, and neither can anyone checking your figures.

Measured, not estimated in the loose sense

We measure every element off your drawings to NRM2, so the quantities in front of you are actual quantities, not an educated guess dressed up as one. Groundworks, substructure, superstructure, finishes, external works, each priced against current UK rates. Nothing gets folded into a lump sum because it was too fiddly to measure properly. When the breakdown's in front of you, you can check it against the drawings yourself, and so can anyone else who needs to.

What that gets you at tender stage

It means you're not the contractor who wins on a low guess and loses on the job. It means you're not the one who prices too high out of nerves and loses the bid to someone with a sharper pencil. You're pricing from a number that's actually yours to defend, built on real quantities and rates that hold up under scrutiny. That's the whole difference between a tender price and a stab in the dark.

Send your drawings and we'll measure the job properly, element by element, and price it on rates that reflect today's market rather than last year's job. Send your drawings for a fixed fee quote, agreed before we start. See a sample estimate to see exactly what kind of breakdown you'd be bidding from.

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