Replacing spreadsheets with structured, scalable estimating logic

We begin by working with your team to assess how estimating is currently performed—typically through spreadsheets and siloed models—and migrate those processes into a structured estimating system. This includes digitising your BOQ's, applying rate build-ups with transparent logic, and establishing standardised templates and resource libraries tailored to your work type and delivery model.

Key Features:

• Integrated BOQ and cost structure modelling
• First-principles pricing using analytical worksheets
• Multi-currency, multi-user capability with audit trails
• Embedded quantity take-off using 2D plans and mark-up tools
• Configurable templates and pricing libraries

The transition allows your team to work faster, price more accurately, and build estimates that can be reviewed, versioned, and reused. More importantly, it connects estimating to project planning and controls—ensuring continuity from bid submission through to execution and commercial close-out.

Structuring live bids under real-time commercial pressure

TacminMadini supports your team throughout the tender phase—building out cost models, allocating resources, and evaluating pricing alternatives. Whether supporting owner-side estimating or contractor submissions, we help develop tenders that reflect realistic resource outputs, indirect cost logic, and delivery risks. This includes structured comparisons between manual spreadsheet estimates and structured system models—often revealing scope gaps, duplication, or missing risks that can be addressed before submission.

Key Features:

• Shadow bidding for benchmark comparison
• Indirect cost modelling aligned to project phasing
• Live margin and cash flow forecasting tools
• Scenario modelling for rate sensitivity and alternative strategies

By structuring tenders this way, clients gain greater internal confidence, faster approvals, and a clearer commercial story to present to clients, boards, or partners. Tenders stop being just about price—and start being about viability, delivery readiness, and risk transparency.

Building internal commercial maturity using live project data

We don’t just provide the system—we build the internal capability to use it. Our team provides on-the-job training using your own project data: live BOQs, current tenders, and real project inputs. This practical approach gives estimators, planners, and commercial managers a structured learning path, ensuring they understand how to price logically, report clearly, and transition estimates into executable cost models.

Key Features:

• Structured training sessions on active tenders or internal models
• Support in developing pricing templates, libraries, and mark-up standards
• Forecasting, valuation, and earned value workflow configuration
• Report development for internal dashboards and client-facing documentation

By investing in your team’s capability, you reduce reliance on spreadsheets and informal methods, and build long-term estimating maturity. This improves review quality, internal control, and your ability to scale commercial operations across multiple tenders or projects.

Ensuring cost models transition directly into project control

We align structured tenders with project execution needs—ensuring that the cost structure used to win the job becomes the same one used to manage it. BOQ items are linked to schedule activities, resource assignments, and valuation timelines, allowing for full integration between estimating, planning, and commercial controls. This structured foundation means less rework during handover, faster mobilisation, and greater clarity in claims, progress tracking, and subcontractor management.

Key Features:

• BOQ-to-schedule linking with resource-loaded activities
• Progress valuation and variation tracking tools
• Subcontractor adjudication with structured change control
• Cash flow forecasting and cost-to-complete models

Clients benefit from predictability in cost control, improved financial reporting, and smoother transitions from pre-award to project execution. This is the bridge between commercial intent and operational reality—closing the gap where many projects lose performance.