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Notes on bidding and estimating

Practical writing on takeoffs, bid strategy and the business of estimating.

The bottleneck is rarely price. It is the number of bids you can turn around before the deadline. Here is how estimating capacity decides win rate.

A takeoff is more than a count. Here is what separates a number you can bid on from a guess dressed up in a spreadsheet.

The panel schedule is where electrical bids leak margin. A quick discipline for catching what the branch takeoff misses.

A full-time estimator is a fixed cost whether or not the pipeline is full. Here is how to think about the trade honestly.

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