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The High Cost of Low Bids: When Contractors Compete on Price, Everyone Loses

Levelset

Prioritizing a low bid over contractor performance is a lose-lose procurement strategy. Unfortunately, low bidding is an accepted practice for both owners and contractors alike. Owners will say that focusing on the lowest bid possible ensures they get a good price. Who’s responsible for low-bid procurement?

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The Secret Sauce to Protecting Construction Profits  

Autodesk Construction Cloud

By taking proactive steps and adopting the right tools, you can mitigate and safeguard your firm’s profits. ” Clearly, technology can enormously influence your projects’ productivity and profitability. Little to no project or business predictability Most construction projects are like a unique snowflake.

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Do You Recognize The 10 Early Warning Signs of Bad Contractor Bids?

Contractor Bookkeeping

Estimating and submitting bids are one of the most stressful and nerve-wracking sides of your construction business. With poor bookkeeping, misguided judgment, and clerical errors come bad decisions on what projects to bid and not to bid on until eventually, you'll run out of time and money.

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Bigger, Better Jobs: Tips for Getting the Jobs That Help Grow Your Business

Levelset

While most specialty contractors aim to take on jobs with higher profit margins, buying materials upfront can drain the available cash needed to make this happen. Bidding on better jobs necessitates a business model that prioritizes growth and provides the ability to scale quickly. Bid bigger. Use Materials Financing.

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Kier whittles net debt down to £230m

Construction Enquirer

Andrew Davies, chief executive, said that despite inflationary pressures Kier would report revenue and profit in line with expectations in September. He added that Kier had generated better positive operating cash flow for the year and would now report a net cash position of around £60m at the year-end, higher than the £2.9m ”

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Key Financial & Safety Metrics for Subcontractor Qualification 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Extracting key ratios from financial statements and safety metrics from OSHA filings allows builders to gauge a subcontractor’s short-term and long-term health — and empower estimators with the data they need to make more informed bidding decisions. . It can be used to determine the proportion of a company’s assets that are financed by debt.

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Unique Bookkeeper Errors Reduce Contractor Profits

Contractor Bookkeeping

The banker said his Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet did not look right to him. His banker was a blunt and told him that if he wanted to stay in the construction business he needed to have accurate Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Job Costing Reports. QuickBooks Job Profitability Reports. He had to rely on his gut feeling.