Interpret BOQs and tender information
Understand the work being priced and break it into meaningful estimating components.
Tender margin protection
Built for Civils.
Built for Tendering.
Catch the costly details before they become your cost.
CivilEstimate is designed to identify missing information, hidden assumptions and overlooked allowances before a tender is submitted — helping contractors build more complete, transparent and commercially defensible prices.
Protect your tender margin.
RATE BUILD-UPCE / 001
Drainage installation
Transparent by designLabourVISIBLE
PlantVISIBLE
MaterialsVISIBLE
ProductionVISIBLE
Risk & marginVISIBLE
Tender rateUNDERSTOOD
Early-stage platform • Contractor validation in Ireland
The challenge
Civil estimating shouldn't depend on guesswork.
Tendering can involve incomplete information, changing supplier costs, uncertain production rates, tight deadlines and dozens of commercial assumptions.
Generic estimating tools often provide a number.
CivilEstimate is being built to show how that number was reached.01Labour02Plant03Materials04Production rates05Subcontractors06Risk & contingency07Overheads08Margin
What we're building
A structured estimating platform for the civil-engineering industry.
CivilEstimate is designed to make pricing logic visible from the first question to the final tender rate.
Identify missing information
Ask structured questions rather than quietly making assumptions.
Build transparent rates
Show the labour, plant, materials, production and commercial allowances behind the tender price.
Apply contractor-specific information
Reflect how an individual contractor actually operates, rather than relying on generic averages.
Highlight risk
Make assumptions, uncertainties and potential commercial exposure visible before tender submission.
Create an audit trail
Let an estimator understand, question and defend how a price was produced.
Built for civil engineering
Grounded in the work civils contractors actually price.
01Groundworks↗
02Drainage↗
03Utilities & Ducting↗
04Earthworks↗
05Concrete Works↗
06Roads & Reinstatement↗
07Temporary Traffic Management↗
The system is being developed using recognised industry requirements alongside contractor-validated commercial information.
Early Contractor Pilot
Help us test CivilEstimate against real tenders.
We're looking for Irish civils contractors, estimators and quantity surveyors to take part in early validation.
This is not a sales demonstration.We want to find out where the system is right, where it is wrong and what experienced contractors believe it needs to do better.
You provide a genuine tender
A historic tender is perfectly suitable. You provide the BOQ and the information available when it was originally priced.
CivilEstimate prices it independently
Where possible, we do not see your final tender price beforehand.
We compare the estimates
We compare the overall price, individual rates and major assumptions.
We investigate the differences
We identify why the estimates differ rather than simply measuring whether two totals are close.
You give us your assessment
A short review with an experienced contractor or estimator helps determine what should be improved.
Your involvement is deliberately kept small
Send the tender information→We do the estimating work→Short comparison afterwards
Pilot participants will receive an independent tender-pricing comparison, a concise variance and missing-information report and priority early access to CivilEstimate.Why not just use general AI?
A price is only useful if it can be understood, questioned and defended.
AI can already assist with construction estimating. CivilEstimate is being developed to add the contractor-specific and commercial context that general AI does not automatically have.
✓ Your actual costs✓ Your production assumptions✓ Your plant✓ Your commercial rules✓ Verified supplier information✓ Structured estimating methodology✓ Tender-specific risk✓ A repeatable audit trail
Pilot interest
Help us test CivilEstimate.
We're inviting a limited number of Irish civils contractors and experienced estimators to participate in early validation.
DC
Dwayne CurtisFounder, CivilEstimate
Direct contact
Prefer to speak first?
Dwayne is available to discuss the pilot directly with contractors, estimators and quantity surveyors.