Estimating Software for Irish 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.

Composite rates assemble from their component products and subproducts, priced from custom rate libraries and regional databases. Change a component price and the build-up carries it through the estimate, so the tender reflects current costs without manual rework line by line.

The estimate converts directly into the project budget and the programme generates from the same BoQ. Budget against actual and the CVR (cost value reconciliation) then read from the tendered numbers at project and portfolio level, so the commercial position traces back to the rates that won the work.

Yes. RFQs run in one place, subcontractor quotes sit side by side per package, and every revision stays on record. External collaborators are free of charge in Archdesk, so subcontractors, clients and consultants can take part in the tender without extra licences.

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