Thinking of taking on a full time estimator but the Business cant quite afford one.
An experienced EMPLOYED estimator is going to cost a company at least £75,000.00 in a salary plus car allowance of £5,000.00 plus Employers of cost of £10,000.00 Plus provision of an Office
Accommodation, plus Computer hardware and Computer software Circa £10,000.00 bringing the cost to around £100K a year. If the New Estimator is sourced through an Agency it could add a further 15% or £12K to that cost.
Also Holidays will reduce the working year down to 45 weeks and possible sickness 1 week. This brings the cost of an Employed Estimator to over £115K a year. The Estimator may price 15 projects a year at a cost of circa £8K per tender ( if the tender works arrives to be priced),
Using us as a freelance company, we provide you a fixed Lump sum fee cost per project tender.
We have covered all of our over heads within the lump sum pricing.
No worries for your company accountant about of you can afford to grow, with the Basic cost and over heads on your company balance sheet,
Usually our costs are built in with the tender as a prelim item as they are one off.
Regarding holidays we have even been known to take estimates on holiday if their tender periods over lap our holidays.
We have worked with numerous start up companies that have gone on to grown from small turnovers of say £50K turn over and now turn over millions, and one or two are now turning over £20M plus all having taken on additional staff as times required.
Having secured you company a Project tender win, we are always available for any back up required during the Project build.