The Value of your Estimating team
Your in house estimating team is a strategic and essential part of your construction business.
Getting bids right isn’t just about estimating quantities accurately. It's about understanding the ins and outs of your business and how different jobs can have different costs.
They are essential in maintaining your bidding margins and ensuring the firm remains profitable.
Why you also need to Outsource construction estimating
- Grow your bidding capacity quickly
- Avoid taking on a big increase in fixed cost.
- Handle excess peak time bidding workloads.
- Reduce costs by supplementing a high quality in house team with a more cost effective outsourced solution.
- Increase retention by reducing pressure on your team.
- Improve turnaround times to avoid missing bids.
How to ensure quality while outsourcing?
Ask for sample jobs or even a free trial and ask your estimating team to evaluate the quality of the estimating.
Make sure to check the first few jobs thoroughly and provide feedback to get the outsourced team on the same page as the in house team.
Conclusion
A core in house team is essential for the health of your construction business. However, by supplementing it with an outsourcing unit, you can turbocharge the growth of your construction business while reducing overall cost and overhead.