
EValuate building estimating software for main contractors helps to produce accurate and consistent tenders and track budgets and costs effectively against projects for both pre and post contract. With an integrated online subcontractor enquiry portal, you can issue enquiries, drawings & revisions to subcontractors, and collate and analyse responses.
See how EValuate for Main Contractors can benefit you
Fast, Easy Bill Production
As a main contractor you can quickly and easily produce Bills of Quantities manually or populate with content from previous jobs, templates, your own libraries or Laxton’s Priced Libraries.
You can also Import Bills of Quantities from Excel, price them up, then export back into the original Excel format with your rates populated.

Integrated On-screen Takeoff
The Powerful On-screen Takeoff tool allows main contractors to perform a fast, accurate On-Screen Takeoff from all file types, with enhanced CAD drawing and BIM model functionality available.
With Live Links between the Dim sheet and the Takeoff this enables amendments and revisions to automatically update the bill.

Improve your Adjudication
Powerful features that helps main contractors benchmark and analyse estimates, with detailed reports and control of margins to provide you with the confidence to set competitive margins and tender more successfully.

Integrated subcontractor enquiry portal
Issue enquiries, drawings & revisions to subcontractors, and collate and analyse responses via an online subcontractor enquiry portal.
Enquiry e-mail is sent to subcontractors from your e-mail address and documents and revisions are uploaded to a pin protected, hosted portal through which subcontractors also submit their response.

Deliver Margins
A powerful post contract module for main contractors.
Once won, a project can be handed over to the QS, who can repackage and retender to enhance margins then manage variations and valuations all the way to final account.

Adopt as a Cloud or On-premise Solution
EValuate can be adopted as an on-premise solution or as a cloud solution enabling you to access the software from any PC at any location.


Watch a Demo
Watch a short online demo to see the benefits EValuate Estimating Software can bring to main contractors.
See how W Stirland use EValuate within their business to respond to more tenders with greater efficiency
EValuate has made a big difference, through speeding up processes we can now respond to more tenders and it will allow us to determine where we are and aren’t winning work, providing us with more consistency. We couldn’t be without it now.
Kevin Moseling, Estimator, W Stirland
Which EValuate Estimating Solution is right for me?
Sub-contractor Edition | Main Contractor Edition | |
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Available On Prem | ![]() | ![]() |
On Screen Take off .pdf | (Optional Module) | (Optional Module) |
On Screen Take off CAD & BIM | (Optional Module) | (Optional Module) |
Excel Bill Integration | ![]() | ![]() |
Bill Production | ![]() | ![]() |
1st Principals Estimating | ![]() | ![]() |
Tender Adjudication | ![]() | ![]() |
Project Proposal Documents | ![]() | ![]() |
Variations Management | (Optional Module) | (Optional Module) |
Valuations | (Optional Module) | (Optional Module) |
Subcontractor Enquiries Portal | ![]() |
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Budget Estimating & Cost Plan Benchmarking | ![]() |
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