What is spec review costing you?
Enter your numbers. See what your team spends on spec review today, what misses are costing you, and what changes when every page gets read with the same precision at 4pm as at 8am.
Each estimator reviews about 6 specs per month. That is 30 hours per month per person spent reading spec documents. Not pricing. Not taking off quantities. Just reading and hoping nothing gets missed.
Your estimator reads specs differently at 8am than at 4pm. Mistakes happen when the team is rushing to make bid day. 3 hours back per bid means they finish the review with time to think, not time to panic.
At 4.5% net margin, your annual profit on $15,000,000 is $675,000. A single missed exclusion or unfunded scope item on one project can erase 2% of your entire year. Your team processes 144 bids per year.
Industry research shows that about 1 in every 100 dollars you bill goes back to fixing problems that started with something missed in the specs. On $15,000,000 in revenue, that is $150,000 a year in rework your team never sees line-itemed.
The math is simple. If we save your estimator 3 hours a week, the service pays for itself. If we catch one missed item worth $24,000 in a year, the service pays for itself. We used conservative numbers throughout. Your real savings will likely be higher.
Nearly half of contractors are turning down work right now because they do not have enough people. Your estimators are the bottleneck. Every hour they spend reading specs is an hour they are not spending on the next bid.
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Estimator wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 13-1051, May 2023. Loaded cost multiplier: CFMA Annual Financial Survey (1.37x).
Rework costs: Construction Industry Institute Research Summary 153-1 (351 projects, $4.2B installed cost). Cause breakdown: CII RT-252.
Net margins: CFMA Annual Financial Survey, specialty trades median 4.0-4.5%. Verified against public filings (MYR Group 3.2%, Primoris 3.6%, EMCOR 7.5%, Comfort Systems 11.2%).
Win rates: CFMA, FMI Nonresidential Construction Index, ENR/Dodge survey data. Range: 15-25%, calculator uses 20%.
Workforce data: AGC 2025 Workforce Survey (92% hiring difficulty), Deloitte 2026 E&C Outlook (41% retire by 2031), U.S. Chamber of Commerce (half of contractors turning down work).
All assumptions use conservative values. Calculator uses BLS median wages (not 75th percentile), floor-level miss costs ($15,000 vs. industry range of $15,000-$75,000), and 30% prevention rate (not 50%+). Your actual results will likely exceed these estimates.