Estimating Software for UK Contractors

It prices the bid and delivers the project from the same data. Archdesk builds estimates from cost libraries and bills of quantities with full breakdowns across materials, trades, equipment and overhead, shows profit margin on every line before the price goes out, and converts the winning estimate into the project budget without re-keying. External collaborators such as subcontractors pricing packages are free of charge, so widening the bid list adds no per-seat cost.

Estimates price from cost libraries that stay current: regional price databases, custom rate libraries and supplier price integration with automatic updates. Rate build-ups assemble products from subproducts, so the estimate starts from real numbers instead of last year’s rates.

Yes. Digital takeoff reads quantities and custom attributes straight from 3D models and feeds the estimate directly, with support for building your own assemblies. Nothing is measured twice or retyped, so the numbers start accurate.

The won estimate converts directly into the project budget, and the programme is generated from the same estimate or bill of quantities. There is no retyping between winning the work and starting it, and no drift between what you priced and what you deliver.

Every delivered project feeds back into the next bid. Historical cost analysis shows how the numbers ran against reality, win and loss rates are tracked per bid in a bid and enquiries registry, and estimate accuracy reporting shows where pricing needs to sharpen.

Yes. Estimates build from detailed BoQs with a full cost breakdown structure, priced from cost libraries and rate build-ups that assemble composite rates from their components. Margin sits on every line, so the tender sum and the profit inside it are visible before the submission goes out.

The winning estimate converts directly into the project budget and the programme is generated from the same estimate or BoQ. From there, budget against actual and the CVR (cost value reconciliation) read from the numbers that were actually tendered, at project and portfolio level, with nothing re-keyed.

Yes. RFQs are managed in one place and subcontractor quotes sit side by side against the same packages, with every revision on record. External collaborators, including subcontractors pricing packages, are free of charge, so the supply chain can take part in tendering without adding licence cost.

Yes. Archdesk is a certified Xero partner and integrates with Sage, so when the won estimate becomes the live budget, the commercial records and the ledger stay in step without re-keying.