Groundworks margins are made or lost at tender stage. Plant outputs, haulage, muck-away and material wastage all move the number, and a spreadsheet can’t show you which assumption is costing you the job.
Valesco builds every rate from its labour, plant and materials, so you can price a groundworks bill quickly, see exactly where the money is, and change outputs across the whole tender in seconds.
Sound familiar?
- Excel bills that break when someone inserts a row
- Plant rates and outputs copied from the last job without checking
- Last-minute muck-away or concrete price changes that take hours to apply
- No clear view of labour and plant usage once the job is won
How Valesco helps
Import the bill in minutes
Bring in the client’s unpriced BQ from Excel and export your priced rates back into their document.
Price from gang outputs
Build excavation, drainage and concrete rates from standard gangs of labour and plant, then reuse them on every tender.
Adjust everything at once
Change a plant rate, output or wastage factor and see the effect across the whole estimate before adjudication.
Hand over a resourced programme
Export the estimate to CS Project to get a programme with labour and plant already allocated.
Want to see it with your own data? Book a free Valesco demo or read more about Valesco estimating & valuations software.
Frequently asked questions
Can Valesco price drainage and civils bills (CESMM)?
Placeholder: confirm CESMM / SMM7 / NRM2 support. Valesco imports any Excel bill and lets you build rates from first principles.
Do I need to be a large contractor to use it?
No. Many Crest clients are SME groundworks and civils contractors with one or two estimators.
