The Estimating Process

More bids, without stretching your team

Most contractors don't lose work because their pricing is wrong — they lose it because they can't get enough accurate, complete bids out the door. Every tender needs a defensible quantity takeoff, a realistic schedule, and a proposal that proves to the client you can execute — and building all of that takes time your team doesn't have when three tenders land in the same week.

End to end, tender receipt to submission

  • Quantity takeoffs
  • Client communication on scope gaps and RFIs
  • Material and subcontractor quote requests, per project, through your company email — backed by established vendor relationships across the Lower Mainland
  • Workplans
  • Project schedule, built in MS Project (or Primavera P6, if your company has P6 access)
  • Complete, submission-ready proposals

How JYCS fits into your team

JYCS works as a white-labeled member of your estimating team — supplementing your existing team during high-volume tender periods so no bid gets rushed or missed. All communication runs through your company email (e.g. estimating@yourcompany.com), with RFIs and vendor/material quote requests submitted on your company's behalf. No external estimator is visible to clients or vendors — it reads as your team, because for all practical purposes, it is.

Services

Estimating and scheduling support built for heavy civil work

Independent, engagement-based support for contractors who need accurate estimates and reliable schedules without carrying the overhead of a full-time in-house team.

Cost Estimation

Cost estimates developed from conceptual budgets through detailed, competitive tender submissions for pipeline, earthworks, and civil infrastructure work. Estimates are built for accuracy and defensibility under tender deadlines, using TamCost — a proprietary estimating tool — alongside InEight and Kubla for earthworks modeling.

  • TamCost
  • InEight
  • Kubla

CPM Scheduling

Critical path method schedules developed and maintained in Primavera P6 and MS Project, coordinated with project stakeholders to track progress against milestones — from tender-stage schedules through active construction on major infrastructure builds.

  • Primavera P6
  • MS Project

Project Controls

Ongoing cost and schedule tracking support to keep infrastructure projects aligned to budget and timeline, using CM Builder and MS Project alongside the estimating and scheduling toolset above.

  • CM Builder
  • MS Project
Sample Work

Sample modeling output

Example model output produced with the tools used on active engagements.

Kubla — Earthworks Model