Shortening Construction Estimate Turnaround

Preparing a full estimate normally took CMPros about four weeks, according to CMPros. Manual estimating tied up the estimator while new opportunities and backlog items waited. The constraint was therefore larger than the time needed to complete one worksheet: the team also needed to move a project into bidding without stopping work on the next job.

Struvia handled the estimate workflow and then helped get the project out for bids. Lilo at CMPros could continue working on new jobs and backlog items while that work progressed. In his separate public testimonial, he describes spending more time with customers and projects instead of behind a computer doing takeoffs and tracking down estimates, and points to the team’s support when questions came up.

The reported milestones are two days to an estimate ready to go and one week to have the project fully bid out. Those are the milestones reported for this customer’s experience, not a universal turnaround promise. They describe estimate preparation and bidding progress; they do not establish a construction completion date, a bid award or a measured final job profit.