Pricing the job yourself at midnight, or sending us the drawings

You've priced tenders at your kitchen table before. Two jobs running, a third one on the wall, and a bid due Thursday. You open the drawings after ten at night because that's the only slot left in the week, and you start pricing off memory and a rough feel for what things cost.

That's not a criticism. It's just the maths of running a site and pricing work at the same time. There aren't extra hours in the day, so the tender gets the leftover ones, when you're at your least sharp.

What pricing it yourself at that hour actually costs you

Tired pricing misses things. A run of drainage, a section of external works, a quantity that got rounded down because you were reading the drawing for the third time and just wanted it done. Every missed line either sits in your price as a gap you'll cover yourself once you're on site, or it never gets there at all and the bid comes in wrong.

None of that is about whether you can price a job. Most contractors we speak to price work well when they've got the time to do it properly. The problem is never having that time on the nights that matter.

Send the drawings across instead

This is what we take off you. You send the drawings, plans or specification you've been given, and we measure the job properly to NRM2 and price it on current UK rates. You get the full priced estimate back, ready to go into your bid, before your deadline.

You're not handing over the tender. You're handing over the measuring and pricing that eats your evenings, so you can spend that time running the jobs already on site, or actually seeing your family before the bid's due.

What you keep control of

You still decide the margin, the programme, and how you present the bid. What you're not doing any more is sitting up measuring drainage runs at midnight with a coffee going cold.

Send your drawings before the next one lands on a Thursday with a Friday deadline. See a sample estimate to see what a properly measured price looks like without losing your evening to it.

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