Estimating for Contractors | TruTec

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Priced by your own recipes.

Quantities flow from the takeoff into the cost recipes you build once (crews, production rates, materials, equipment and trucking), with margin on every line.

Takeoff to pricemeasured quantities land on the estimate on their own
No formulasservices are built with plain form controls, not spreadsheets
7 cost typescrews, equipment, materials, trucking, subs, overhead and misc in one price book
To the centservice prices always add up to the proposal total
Your price book

01 · Your price book

Set your costs once. Every bid copies from it.

Crews and people, materials, equipment, trucking, subs and overhead live in one company library, with the detail paving actually needs.

The TruTec price book: materials, equipment, crews, trucking, subs, overhead and misc
Hot-mix asphalt vendor prices over time from three plants

One price book

Crews, materials, equipment, trucking, subs and overhead, set once and copied into every bid.

Your real costs

Supplier prices with dates, your own fleet and your crews’ true rates.

Bids stay put

A catalog change never quietly moves a bid you’ve already sent.

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Services that price themselves

02 · Services that price themselves

Build “2-inch overlay” once. Reuse it on every bid.

Turn how you price the work into services your whole team reuses, set up with plain form controls and no formulas.

A service cost recipe: asphalt patching with a depth option, tonnage from depth, crew, equipment and trucking

Build a service once

Turn how you price a 2-inch overlay into a service every estimator reuses.

Priced from the takeoff

Point it at a measured quantity and the crew hours, materials and trucking work themselves out.

No formulas to type

Everything is set up with plain form controls, not spreadsheets.

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Takeoff to bid

03 · Takeoff to bid

Measured on the map. Priced on the sheet.

Measured services land on the estimate from the takeoff, and every quantity stays traceable back to the shapes it came from.

An estimator reviewing the Oak Hollow Plaza estimate in TruTec, with the sealcoat line opened

Measured to priced

Measured services land on the estimate straight from the takeoff.

Every number traceable

Point at a line and see the shapes on the map it came from.

Nothing left off

Anything measured but not priced is flagged before the bid goes out.

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Pricing control

04 · Pricing control

Type the number you want. The bid re-solves.

Every cost on its own line with the margin beside it, and the number you want lands without breaking the math.

The Oak Hollow Plaza estimate with the two-coat sealcoat line opened: crew, sealer, spray rig and trucks, each with cost, margin and price

Every line in view

Each service with its crew, equipment, material and trucking cost, margin and price.

Land the number

Type the price you want and the bid rebalances without breaking the math.

Bid the way you think

Cost and price per square foot, square yard or ton, and profit per day.

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And more

Plus 50+ more, built from what contractors asked for. See them on a demo.

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FAQ

Common questions.

Something else? Talk to a human or book a demo

No. Start from ready-made paving services and add your own costs, import rates from a spreadsheet, or bring your existing estimating workbook.
Yes. Bring your own workbook and TruTec prices it from the takeoff, checked against your file.
Each service is tied to what the takeoff measures, so it fills itself in. If the takeoff changes, you review the new quantities before anything updates.
Both. Flip the sheet between them and the dollars stay the same. Or type the total, price or margin you want and every line rescales.
Yes. Send a quote request from your mailbox; vendors price each item on a no-login link, and you compare them side by side before one click puts the price on the bid.
Yes. Give people a second wage rate and switch a whole estimate to it; saved bids keep their rates.