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Trade contractor · Florida, USA

From 21 to 217 projects a month.

Over a two-year engagement, this commercial trade contractor grew monthly project volume 933% and peak monthly square footage 732%, scaling from 21 bids in month one to 217 in its busiest month, all on Tribuild's outsourced estimating capacity.

+933%Monthly project volume
+732%Monthly SQFT volume
Month 1 · 21 projectsPeak · 217 projects

292,361 SF → 2,431,026 SF quantified in the peak month

The volume

14,469,800 SF

of commercial construction quantified in the trailing twelve months, up from a 292,361 SF first month.

1,791Projects in the trailing 12 months
1,205,817SF quantified / month on average

Bid volume grew tenfold without adding a single in-house estimator.

Scope of work

More than estimating: full preconstruction support.

Estimating and quantity takeoffs2,990 projects
Square footage quantified27,206,375 SF
Shop drawing production212 hours

217

bids supported in the busiest single month, more than ten times the engagement's starting pace.

The economics

Estimating capacity without the overhead.

Matching the recent sustained workload of roughly 149 projects a month in-house would require an estimated four to six full-time U.S. estimators at current market salaries with employer burden.

$442K-$663KEstimated annual in-house staffing cost avoided
4-6Full-time estimating hires avoided

$35.28M

in potential annual awarded revenue from the 196 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

Scale, without building the department first.

21 projects/mo217 projects/mo
292,361 SF/mo2,431,026 SF/mo
Takeoffs onlyTakeoffs + shop drawings

Estimating, takeoffs, and shop drawings: preconstruction capacity that expanded tenfold as the workload did, with zero hires.

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