Track Your Electrical projects after you win them

Track your electrical estimating projects.

It is one thing to estimate an electrical project and another to win it, but the real goal is for the project to be profitable. Winning a lot of non-profitable projects is worse than loosing every bid.

There are so many ways to lose money being an electrical contractor that it is a wonder any of us try. Producing poor estimates, hiring worthless employees, weather, bad general contractors, and material increases are just a few.

Our studies show that most loses were actually not any of the above.

We have found that poor office management was the #1 reasons jobs lost money.

Poor office management can mean many things, from forgetting to order material, not purchasing correctly, not tracking labor, lack of supervision, and poor Project Managers.

It could be that the company didn't provide the proper tools to track the projects. A quality electrical estimating software should give you the right tools to track your electrical projects.

Having a schedule of values, audit trail, and man-hours  for each phase of the project is information  needed to properly manage any electrical project. Your software should provide the proper tools to have this information at your fingertips.

Estimating with unit prices want give you this information.

Learn to use the proper tools for success.