I have worked in the construction area for a long time; we get clients all the time wanting “quotes”.
I understand the wanting a quote and all but for us that meant work, the customer only has to call and ask for a quote then send you the blueprints, you’re the one that has to take the blueprints they provide and from there calculate all the materials you would need to do the job.
Now days “bids” are much closer than ever, you’ve got the guy that has a ton of business so he just takes the blueprints and comes up with a number in his head, he doesn’t care if it’s high or not because he’s already busy.
You have the “low bidder” someone that does a bit more looking at the material it would take and an estimate of labor hours it would take to do this job, usually based off of past experiences, there’s a huge possibility that he might cut his own throat and actually go bankrupt in the right circumstances, if there are “difficulties” or his bid was so low that now the material in the last 30 days has gone up 3%, not much, just enough to make him lose any profit that was going to come in, so basically he’s just kept his guys fed while he struggles.
There is a better way.
With PlanSwift takeoff software you can scan the blueprints into the computer, have them emailed to you download an online PDF, or with cloud technologies several other ways, but if your now going to take that blueprint and pull out a ruler and piece of paper to do your takeoffs your missing the boat.
I know most people don’t like “technology” but it doesn’t matter if you like it or not, because now the company down the road has PlanSwift takeoff software and are able to give 3 times as many quotes to customers than you can by hand.
With PlanSwift you take the data you have, blueprints, etc import them into the PlanSwift program and start drawing box’s … that’s it, you draw lines. PlanSwift tells you that you need 58 sheets of 5 x 8 sheetrock to do this room; it calculates everything in the project, and at 3 times the speed of doing it manually.
Not only are you going faster so you can put out more bids, your accuracy of exactly how many “widgets” you need to do the job is more accurate, you can give a quote that will have more profit in it for you because you’re not wasting money by over buying, or under buying then having to send a runner “paid” to get more of what you need, with PlanSwift you’ll already have it there.
As we said earlier you’re the middle guy, the more accurate your bids are the more money you keep, the less waste you have, over time you’ll save possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars, it’s worth it to use PlanSwift Takeoff Software.
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