Estimating and Planning Software - Conquest

Analytical Estimating & Resource Analysis

  • Flexible Pricing Techniques
  • Labour/Plant/Material/Subcontractor Schedules
  • Contract Sum Analysis - Trade/Elemental Pricing - Resource Levelling

Analytical Estimating

Analytical estimating in ConQuest has become more and more simple and straight forward over the years. Even the most complex bill items can easily be priced using a whole range of pricing techniques. Flexibility is the key, each estimator is likely to approach the pricing of the same item in a different way. Some work with outputs, some with constants and some will work out a total and divide by the bill quantity. You can even type in the rate you want and ConQuest will calculate the outputs and constants for you. For some trades you may wish to price items yourself as well as sending out for subcontract prices, deciding which rate to use later on. All of these methods and more are available within ConQuest. More importantly they are all clearly laid out in English since ConQuest does not use any coding. Complete item build ups are displayed on the screen with clear sub headings for composite items. It is quite possible for one item in a bill or specification to be priced with a dozen or more activities from your library.

Detailed Resource Anaylsis

At any stage of a tender ConQuest can instantly generate a detailed resource analysis. This will show labour, material, plant and subcontractor schedules with quantities, rates and totals. Materials are further analysed to show wastage, compaction and other factors. Most systems will produce a similar analysis, but with ConQuest many other forms of analysis are possible. Unlimited contract sum analysis and detailed resource analyses are easily obtained using activity scheduling facilities. Items in a bill can be allocated to an activity, this can be done individually or over ranges of items, page by page or section by section. Once this is done ConQuest can produce bill summaries which match the activities set by the user.  This facility also allows the estimator to switch effortlessly between elemental and trade pricing.  Activity scheduling also facilitates the formatting of resource analysis to match programming. What’s more the ConQuest Link module will create an export file which can be sent to your chosen project management software.