Pr3ciseConstruction estimating services for contractors who bid to win
A remote estimating team for contractors in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, the Gulf and across Europe. Outsourced quantity takeoffs, bills of quantities and line-item cost estimates — priced, broken out and defensible.
Outsourced takeoffs and cost estimates you can bid from, wherever you build.
Request a free quoteWhat Pr3cise does, and who it does it for
Pr3cise is a remote construction cost estimating and quantity takeoff office. It measures construction drawings and prices the work for general contractors, subcontractors, developers and architects, and returns a line-item estimate, a bill of quantities or a material list in Excel and PDF, normally within 24 to 72 hours of receiving a complete document set. Pr3cise is operated by Clear Ascend OÜ, registered in Estonia, and works entirely by file: there is no office in the United States and no site visit is involved.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Service | Construction cost estimating, quantity takeoff (QTO), bills of quantities, cost plans and tender pricing |
| Clients | General contractors, subcontractors, developers and architects |
| Deliverables | Line-item estimate or bill of quantities in Excel and PDF, plus colour-coded takeoff markups on the drawings |
| Classification | CSI MasterFormat in North America, NRM2 or SMM in the United Kingdom, capítulos y partidas in Spain, POMI or NRM2 for Gulf tenders |
| Turnaround | 24 to 72 hours from a complete drawing and specification set |
| Fee | Fixed price per project, agreed in writing before any work starts. No hourly billing |
| Markets | United States (Miami-Dade and South Florida first), United Kingdom, Spain, the Gulf, the rest of Europe |
| Languages | English and Spanish |
| Quality control | Every estimate is produced by one engineer and checked by a second |
| Who does the work | Pr3cise — Clear Ascend OÜ, Estonia. Remote office, no premises in the United States |
Bidding blind is how contractors lose money twice
Construction costs are underestimated far more often than they are overestimated. In a study of 258 transportation infrastructure projects, Flyvbjerg, Holm and Buhl (2002) found costs were underestimated in almost 9 out of 10 projects, and that actual costs came in 28% above the estimate on average. Bid too high and you never get the job. Bid too low and you win the job that eats your margin for the next eighteen months. Both failures come from the same place: a takeoff that missed something.
An estimate is not paperwork. It is the document that decides whether the project makes you money, and it deserves more than the last two nights before bid day. What an inaccurate estimate costs, phase by phase.
How Pr3cise builds your estimate, in four steps
Four steps, the same on every job, so you always know what you are getting and when. The full list of trades and services we estimate is here.
Scope review
Pr3cise reads the drawings, specs and addenda before touching a number, and we come back to you with the gaps, conflicts and exclusions we find. That conversation alone catches most of the money.
Quantity takeoff
Every line item measured and organized by CSI MasterFormat division (or your own format) — materials, labor and equipment. Color-coded markups ship with the estimate so you can audit any quantity in seconds.
Pricing & value engineering
Current regional material and labor pricing, cross-checked against supplier quotes. Where a spec is driving cost without driving value, we flag the alternate and price both.
Delivery
Excel and PDF, in your template if you have one, with overhead, profit and waste factors broken out separately so your margin is visible and defensible in a bid review.
Where Pr3cise works: one remote estimating team, four markets, two languages
Pr3cise is a remote estimating office — Clear Ascend OÜ, registered in Estonia — and every job travels as a file. You send drawings and specs, a construction estimator measures and prices them, and the estimate comes back in the format and the code of the market the project is actually built in. We work in English and Spanish.
United States
Line items by CSI MasterFormat division, priced with regional material and labor data. Miami-Dade and South Florida is our main US market: the Florida Building Code, the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone rules and Notice of Acceptance product approvals are priced into the number, not bolted on afterwards.
United Kingdom and Ireland
Bills of quantities and pre-tender cost plans built in the structure your tender documents ask for, so nobody has to rebuild the submission by hand the night before it goes in.
Spain and Spanish-speaking markets
Mediciones y presupuestos in Spanish, delivered in BC3 as well as Excel and PDF, coded against CTE, REBT and RSCIEI when the project calls for it. Ver el sitio en español →
Europe and the Gulf
Eurocodes with their national annexes across the EU, and BoQ-based tender pricing for the United Arab Emirates and the wider Gulf. Metric or imperial, in euros, pounds, dollars or dirhams.
Distance is not a problem in this trade — it is the point. Nobody needs to stand on the site to measure a drawing, so when a contractor searches for construction estimating services near me what they are really buying is a team that answers before bid day. Ours starts its day roughly seven hours before the US East Coast, which means drawings sent at the end of yours are measured overnight. See the trades and services we estimate, what a finished estimate looks like and our articles on construction cost estimating, or send us the drawings for your next bid.
Who Pr3cise works with
Different buyers, different deliverables. We adjust the output to how you actually bid — see what a finished estimate looks like.
General contractors
Multi-trade budgets and full bid packages, from conceptual through hard bid. Scope gaps flagged in writing so you know what the subs did not include.
Subcontractors
Single-trade takeoffs priced for bid day. Send the plans, get quantities and pricing back fast enough to still make the deadline.
Developers and owners
Conceptual and design-phase budgets for feasibility, lender packages and go/no-go decisions, updated as the drawings develop.
Architects
Independent cost checks at every design stage — SD, DD and CD or their local equivalents — so the design stays inside the owner's number instead of getting value-engineered after the fact.
Frequently asked questions about estimating services
Everything you need to know before outsourcing your construction cost estimation. If you would rather start with who actually produces the numbers, start there.
A construction estimating service is an outsourced preconstruction service that measures your drawings and prices the work, so you receive a line-item estimate you can bid from. Pr3cise handles both halves of it, the quantity takeoff and the cost estimate: materials, labor, equipment, overhead and profit, broken out by CSI MasterFormat division. Outside North America the same work is usually bought as quantity surveying: a bill of quantities (BoQ) or pre-tender estimate — we deliver in that format too.
A full-time estimator is a fixed cost whether or not you are bidding. Outsourcing turns that into a variable cost per bid, removes the errors that creep in when your team is overloaded, and lets you chase more bids in the same week without adding headcount.
Drawings in PDF or DWG and the project specifications are enough. If you already have an internal template, an addendum set or a scope letter, send those too — we will match your format.
Pr3cise delivers in 24 to 72 hours from receipt of a complete document set, depending on scope and trade. The delivery date and the fixed fee are confirmed in writing before work starts.
Both, plus developers and architects. General contractors typically come to us for full multi-trade budgets; subcontractors for single-trade takeoffs and bid-day or tender pricing.
Excel and PDF as standard, with a color-coded markup set so you can see exactly where every quantity came from. We can also deliver into your own bid template.
Entirely by file, and the time difference works in your favor. Our day starts about seven hours ahead of the US East Coast, so a drawing set sent at the end of your afternoon is measured overnight and the estimate is waiting when you open the office. Questions go by email or WhatsApp, and the scope is agreed in writing before we start, so nothing waits on a shared calendar slot.
Pr3cise works remotely for contractors in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and across Europe, in English and Spanish. The deliverable follows the market: CSI MasterFormat line items in the US, with Florida Building Code, HVHZ and Notice of Acceptance requirements priced in on a Miami-Dade job; a bill of quantities for a UK or Gulf tender; BC3 alongside Excel and PDF in Spain; and Eurocodes with their national annexes elsewhere in Europe. Metric or imperial, in your currency.