Trade contractor · North Carolina, USA
From 42 to 175 projects a month.
Thirty-two months in, this commercial trade contractor's outsourced estimating engagement is still growing: monthly project volume up 317%, monthly square footage up from 161,882 SF to a 7,112,582 SF peak, and 97,290,711 SF quantified to date.
161,882 SF → 7,112,582 SF quantified in the peak month
The volume
51,880,465 SF
of commercial construction quantified in the trailing twelve months, in the third year of the engagement.
Thirty-two months in, volume is still climbing: the busiest month arrived in month twenty-nine.
Scope of work
A bid engine, not a stopgap.
32 months
of continuous estimating support, from overflow help in month one to the core of the contractor's bid operation today.
The economics
Estimating capacity without the overhead.
Matching the recent sustained workload of roughly 138 projects a month in-house would require an estimated four to six full-time U.S. estimators at current market salaries with employer burden.
$23.94M
in potential annual awarded revenue from the 133 additional bids per month the added estimating capacity unlocked.
Illustrative model based on a 10% win rate and a $150,000 average awarded contract. Staffing costs modeled on U.S. estimator salaries with employer burden.
Then vs. now
Built to last, built to scale.
The longest engagements are the strongest proof: capacity that keeps scaling in year three, without a single estimating hire.
Services used in this engagement
Partnerships that scale with you.
Start with one project. Grow into a bid engine.
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