Bidding Professionals provides quantity takeoffs and cost estimates to General & Sub contractors under following CSI trades:
Construction Takeoff Services
Construction takeoff services for the preoccupied contractors and developers to let them win the construction project through accurate quantity takeoffs by Bidding Professionals.
We Work With
Trades We Cover
Construction Material And Quantity Takeoff Services
While providing Construction takeoff Services, we start with reading the building drawings/plans and calculate the type and the amount of materials required to build the specific building. The calculation of materials in terms of type and amount is called the quantity takeoff. These calculations are put in an excel spreadsheet in an organized format and delivered to the client. The preparation and delivery of this spreadsheet is called construction takeoff.
Our Process Of Quantity Takeoff
The process of quantity takeoff is simple. The client sends us the project plans and we provide free consultation as well as a quote to do the project according to the given scope. Once we have an agreement, we initially charge 50% of the fee and start the project.
The first step in the process of quantity takeoff is to go through the project plans thoroughly and check if the concerned estimate is a budget estimate or a design estimate. In the second step, the quantity estimator marks the plans on Bluebeam Revu which is a software used to calculate the quantity take-offs. The third step is the material cost estimation in which we estimate the cost of each corresponding line item using RSMeans. RSMeans is an online platform by which we can get the changing market prices of construction materials.
Our construction takeoff gets the labour and materials prices and the labour productivity from RSMeans. The detailed construction take-offs are performed with everything broken down to show each minor detail to the client.
How We Can Help?
Exterior Quantity Takeoff:
Exterior Takeoffs include Metal panel siding, Cement board siding and stucco finish
Our Clients
General Contractors
For general contractors, we offer quantity takeoffs and cost estimating services encompassing all trades.
Sub Contractors
We assist subcontractors in preparing accurate estimates based on specific trades such as roofing, painting, concrete, sitework, steel, masonry, drywall, etc.
Material Suppliers
We help material suppliers prepare a precise order list for materials. We thoroughly analyze the project drawings to come up with an accurate material take off.
Owners and Builders
We have a solid track record for delivering rough and detailed budget estimates for building owners and developers for their projects.
Estimators & Managers
Our professionals provide cost estimating services to estimators and project managers for all types of residential, commercial, and industrial projects.
What We Do For Contractors
Benefits Of Working With Us
- Our material takeoff services are comprised of well experienced estimators in all types of commercial, residential and industrial building take off in construction and cost estimation.
- We provide a complete package to our clients covering all the divisions in takeoff services for construction.
- We are premium members of RSMeans, PlanHub and ConstructConnect.
- We are flexible working both offscreen and onscreen construction takeoff and estimating services using Bluebeam Revu.
- We offer free consultation as well as a free quote to our valuable customers.
- We meet short deadlines to allow customers to submit more bids on time.
- Our bid format is user friendly and allows the customer to alter any line items easily.
- We offer discounts to our regular clients and do one revision for free(T&C apply).
- Working with us on project basis helps the customer to save office and salary expenses of in-house estimators.
- Our construction estimating prices are competitive and our regular discounts make us more cost efficient.
Software We Use
Who is Bidding Professionals?
Bidding Professionals is a NewYork-based Construction Estimating Company that provides Construction Estimating Services in the business of helping contractors prepare and win more bids.
Local pricing and accuracy of on-field labor productivity are imperative to win more projects so we help our clients prepare entire bids based on the zip codes and crew sizes.
Most contractors are so occupied with their on-field tasks that they don’t have enough time to do the estimating. Most of the Contractors find time to do the estimation on nights and weekends since they are preoccupied with other tasks like attending important meetings, dealing with vendors and suppliers, internal team management, and day-to-day other business activities.
It shouldn’t go like that!
How Bidding Professionals Helps Our Clients Win More Projects
“I need accurate estimates”
-Every Contractor in the USA
We Have A Proficient Team Of Civil Engineers Capable Of Delivering 50 Projects Every Week. We Can Deliver Quantity Takeoffs Within 2 Working Days By Engaging More Estimators On High-Priority Projects. Our Experts Guarantee 100% Factual Construction Estimating and Takeoffs. Moreover, We Use RSMeans For Location-Based Pricing To Get The Best Rates According To Zip Codes.
We optimize the pricing according to zip codes by incorporating RSMeans pricing with real-time labor productivity to maximize the contractor’s profit. We use RSMeans for local prices but improvise the prices with a calculated factor of labor productivity. We carry out cost estimates according to the price of materials and resources in your local area.
“It’s difficult to find time to do projects’ estimations”
-Nightmare of Every Contractor
Every contractor is fed up working late nights and on weekends due to the lack of time. They don’t find time for their multiple projects’ estimations. This is why Bidding Professionals is here to help. We’ve worked with over 500 contractors nationwide helping them find bid opportunities and submitting bids on time.
100% Accuracy Guaranteed
Our Proven Strategies that makes us apart from the market
We have largest client retention rate due to our remarkable bid win ratios in major trades:
- Steel = 55%
- Sitework = 72%
- Drywall = 87%
- Concrete = 45%
- Other Trades = 30%
Most of the time, subcontractors have to meet short deadlines submitting bids to the General Contractors. We, as an estimating team, try to make sure that our clients do not miss a single bid opportunity and our team of experienced estimators make it possible by:
- Working overtime
- Working on the weekends
- Engaging more estimators on a single estimating job
- All this without compromising the quality of work through detailed critical evaluation of the estimate
Our proven strategies enable us to achieve these results. Visual representation of our hierarchical project reviewal.
Our Service Areas
In the United States, we serve the following areas: New York, New Jersey, California, Utah, Illinois, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Washington D.C, Texas.
Frequently Asked Questions
In construction, take offs are the calculation of materials in terms of type and amount, our construction take off services start with reading the building drawings/plans and calculate the type and the number of materials required to build the specific building. It is crucial to calculate the material takeoffs accurately to avoid losses during construction
There is plenty of quantity take off software available in the market which can be used for takeoffs and cost estimation like Bluebeam Revu, PlanSwift, RSMeans, and many more. Depending on the requirements, takeoff estimators can use any of them.
Different material take off software is used for different purposes. For instance, software like Bluebeam Revu is used to mark and flag the project plans according to the scope to get the accurate number of construction take offs while some software like PlanSwift is used to calculate all by itself.
While calculating the material take offs for new construction, an estimator has to do a thorough study on the specs of the project shared along with the project plans. Depending on the specs, our takeoffs calculate the material quantities for each trade, like concrete, masonry, finishes, furnishes, etc.
In construction, detailed takeoffs can be defined as the takeoff which is broken down to each and every minor quantity.
Our price work in two ways per the client’s preference:
(1)Per Hour
(2)Per project
We can easily support either approach but prefer to price per project because it gives the client an understanding of the total cost. If preferred, we are happy to price projects by hour.
The objective of material take off is to determine the precise amount of labor and materials to be used in the construction of the respective building. It is helpful while setting the budget of the project and it is necessary for GCs and subcontractors to bid on specific trades of the project.
Estimating a project is one of the most important things in the pre-construction phase. It predicts and evaluates the cost per trade as well as the total cost of the project. It is helpful for GCs and subcontractors to decide which project to bid on. While for material suppliers, it provides the exact quantity of materials to be delivered to the project site.
We provide highly detailed estimates and our construction material quantity takeoff services are broken down to each and every minor line items. We share sample estimates with our new clients to give an idea about the format and how detailed our estimates are.
We guarantee that our material takeoff services are more than 95% accurate because we have been working for more than 7 years now and most of our clients are the regular customers satisfied with the quality of work and accuracy of the estimate.