Our Services
Benefits of
our Services to Contractors
Benefits of
our Services to Owners
Benefits of
our Services to Cost Estimators
Our
Services -
We create
standard and customized Quantity Takeoff Reports for
construction projects. Some of the features and benefits of
our reports are:
QTO Reports for
sitework,
architectural, and structural items. This includes
lumber
take-off for wood structures such as residential and light
commercial as well.
Custom
made QTO Reports to help our clients analyze
their projects better.
Complete spreadsheet
solution in which we provide soft copies of QTO
Report filled out in MS Excel
spreadsheet, clients can provide their own MS Excel
spreadsheets as well.
Why
Use Our Services?
QTO Reports provide
vital information to the stakeholders
involved in a
construction project.
Contractors
- Profitability of a
construction firm depends on its ability to
bid on as many projects with as much accuracy
as possible. Performing quantity
takeoffs on construction projects
is a task that the bidding team has to do
regardless of their
chances of winning the project. Hundreds of
hours are spent actually counting and
quantifying every item mentioned on the
drawings and specifications. This task is often accomplished
at the expense of better communication with subcontractors and
advanced planning and analysis of the project.
Moreover, a minor error in the quantity takeoff can result in
losses that
can be in hundreds of thousands of dollars. It is also common for
contractors to argue with their subcontractors in the last minutes of bidding
about their
quantities.
Our QTO Reports
provide a solution to the above mentioned
problems to the
contractors. Our QTO Reports:
Free
up the bidding team's time so they could
concentrate more on getting
lowest bids from
subcontractors and analyzing the productivity,
project duration, and
profitability issues.
Provide
a third party view of the project and help
the contractor and
subcontractor agree upon a
final quantity in case of an argument at the
last minutes of bidding.
Help
smaller contractors who do not have the resources to employ a full-time
project
bidding team to compete with bigger
contractors.
Reduce
the cost of bidding a project.
Owners -
Why remain in the
dark and accept the quantities presented by
the
contractors when our QTO Reports can
provide the owners with a low cost
leverage in negotiations.
Cost
Estimators -
Eighty percent of the
effort that goes into cost estimating
a
project consists of performing quantity
takeoffs. If cost estimating is an art then
performing quantity takeoff is a
science. Our
QTO Reports provide a cost
effective way to
cost estimating firms in their search for
reducing their costs.
Our QTO Reports also
provide an important leverage to smaller cost
estimating
firms and help them grow without
hiring more employees and thus increasing
their
overhead cost.
