Takeoff and price any job, up to 80% faster.
Create winning bids in less than half the time
Excellent 1:1 training and support
Designed to make estimating easy for tradies
Your business installs security systems and fire alarms. So why is the most time consuming part of your job putting a bid together? RapidBid security alarm and fire sprinkler estimating software makes it quick and easy to takeoff plans for your bids and quotes, getting you out of the office and back on site where you belong.
Decades of industry experience and input from tradies all over Australia have gone into creating RapidBid’s estimating and bidding tools, and all that hard work’s delivered a tool that makes it easy for you to price up your alarm jobs.
Don’t waste another second on pencil and paper takeoffs.Request a demo of our security and fire estimating software and see just how much time you can save.
“I have a mate who is an electrical contractor and he was telling me that he spent three weeks pricing a $200,000 job by hand. I told him that with my estimating and PDF take off software, I started a $700,000 job yesterday and finished it today!”
“As much as I would hate to help any of my competitors, I have to completely endorse RapidBid in all that it offers for a business. Our quotation rate has increased from 50 to over 200 quotations per month.”
“RapidBid is a lifesaver. It’s so easy to use, I just open the drawings and within minutes I have scaled, marked and priced up all my materials and labour. It has increased the speed that we can win work four times over, at least.”
“At last, take-offs for the 21st century! After years spent marking up drawings with highlighters and producing takeoff sheets, this is a revolution in estimating. Just can’t live without it – I now takeoff five projects in the time it used to take to do just one.”
“RapidBid easily saves me 90% of my takeoff time, so it’s extremely useful for projects that need a quick turnaround. Brilliant software that is so easy to use.”
“Now, overall from top to bottom, RapidBid’s software saves me about 70% of my time, and that makes an amazing difference. Quotes that took me five days before now take me less than two days, and I’ve only been estimating since January.”
“I work as an estimator Monday-to-Friday, 9-to-5, and your software and support is first class. I can takeoff and price well over 10 drawings in less than an hour, this used to take me half a day before! I just love how simple it is.”
We used to do takeoffs with a scale ruler and a pencil which was very time consuming, and now we have a much quicker takeoff time. We only spend around 1 or 2 hours doing takeoffs with RapidBid’s software and before it used to take us about 5 or 6 hours.
“We used to have a three or four-process estimate which was over-complicated, but now we have a simple, one-process estimate. We definitely recommend!”
“Time saving is the biggest advantage for us by far. RapidBid saved us about 80% of our time and increased our productivity 50%.”
It takes time to price up your bid for an alarm installation job. Most tradies say it takes up to five hours to takeoff the quantities for even a smaller installation, and it’s easy to see why when you break down what goes into taking off plans with a pencil.
First, you need to get hold of a copy of the architectural drawings. Then you need to work out which drawings apply to the alarm or fire system and which don’t. A trip to the printers later, and you’re finally ready to start the time consuming take off process, with all its scaling and manual counting.
First up, there’s the drawings themselves. Picking through tender folders, heading to the printers, all just to get the plans and start the process.
Next, there’s the manual colouring, scaling, measuring and counting. Every step of the way you’ve got to check and double check your numbers, and God help the tradie who loses the piece of paper with his quantities on before he’s finished the bid!
It’s no wonder everything takes so long. But it doesn’t have to. With RapidBid, we’ve automated as much as possible, and made the parts we can’t automate quick and easy.
Automatic counting, instant background removal, quick reviews for plans – every part of our security and fire sprinkler estimating software tool saves you another few minutes. And those minutes soon add up. To an average of four hours saved on every bid.
Four hours you can spend on site, or four hours enjoying yourself because you know your bid’s landed on your client’s desk four hours early.
Time is money, but if you expect to spend thousands of dollars on the saving time with RapidBid, we’ve got a pleasant surprise for you. Our prices start from just a couple of dollars a day, making our estimating tool as affordable as it is useful.
Those couple of dollars don’t just get you the software. They also get you unlimited telephone support and a set of video walkthroughs so you always know just what you’re getting. Our savings calculator even shows you how much time and money you’ll save before you start your trial.
It’s time to put RapidBid to the test. Contact us about getting a trial of our security and fire sprinkler estimating software by clicking the link below and start planning what you’ll do with all that free time.
