Angel Estimating
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Freelance estimating service

Contractors and sub contractors are facing a challenging and changing compliance landscape

A sequence of tax-driven and legislative changes that will impact every business include:

National Insurance increases
Business rates revaluations
Increased minimum wage
New working rights legislation
pension contributions for employees

In addition, businesses must continue to absorb the ongoing costs of:

Paid bank holidays
Company vehicle expenses
Vehicle insurance
Employee benefits such as health insurance

Adapt to Protect Your Business

Every business must adapt to these increasing financial pressures while continuing to generate sufficient profit to remain viable and sustainable.

You now face important decisions about how to protect your company’s future.

With 35 years of industry experience — and having successfully navigated five recessions — I have seen first-hand that long-term gain often requires short-term adjustment. This may involve:

Streamlining overheads
Reviewing staffing structures
Adopting more efficient estimating and tendering strategies

My service

Following the voluntary closure of our family business, established in 1975, I am now available to offer my expertise to the right companies.

I work on a freelance basis, providing professional support in:

Preparing tender documentation
Estimating projects
incorporating the ohpp formula to guarantee your profit is protected and additional profit is generated.
Submitting professional tender proposals

More Than an Estimator

I do not simply offer estimating services.

I provide the added value of an Estimator / Account Surveyor with a finely tuned awareness of:

Contractual traps and pitfalls
Risk exposure in tender submissions
Commercial strategies used by clients’ cost consultants often used to control or reduce contractor contract accounts

My extensive experience and broader commercial perspective ensures your tenders are not only competitive — but protected.

The absolute key approach to stay viable, protect the employment of valuable staff starts with the tender or quotations you submit. My first hand experience of challenges that you now face resulted in the creation of a percentage formula to represent how variations are valued. This very basic and simple change to my tenders ensured profit protection and growth from predatory cost consultants.

The Key to Preparing a Profitable Tender

The absolute key to a profitable project begins at tender stage.

Success is not simply about pricing competitively — it is about positioning your contract correctly from day one.

When structured properly, your tender submission can:

Protect your core project margin
Strengthen your contractual position
Convert project changes into structured, profitable variations
Maximise overhead and profit recovery

As every contractor knows, contracts evolve. Projects grow. Changes happen.

The question is — are you positioned to benefit from those changes?

The Essential Skills That Drive Profitability

1. Identifying Weak Specifications

Many tenders are issued with poorly prepared or incomplete specifications.

Recognising these at tender stage allows you to:

Structure your submission strategically
Clarify exclusions and assumptions
Create a framework that supports strong variation accounts
Protect your commercial exposure

This is not opportunistic — it is professional contract positioning.

2. Recognising a Client’s Propensity for Change

Some clients consistently introduce changes during the course of a project.

Understanding this behaviour allows you to:

Anticipate variation opportunities
Position the contract correctly from the outset
Convert inevitable changes into structured, valuable variations

When managed correctly, change becomes opportunity — not risk.

3. Applying the OHPP System

(Overheads & Profit Protection)

My focused OHPP system is designed to:

Safeguard your core project margin
Ensure overhead recovery is properly accounted for
Strengthen contractual profit entitlement
Enhance profitability on every variation

In many cases, correct implementation of OHPP can significantly increase — even double — the financial return generated by variations.

This is achieved by ensuring your percentage OHPP statement is properly structured within the contract and consistently applied to every change instruction.

See the Difference in Practice

You can download an actual project example demonstrating how the structured use of an OHPP statement embedded within the tender summary page will set the position statement how your variations will be charged and applied to every variation — transforming overall project profitability. You decide how you want to split the OHPP formula to maximise your profit for the project.

Using the OHPP formula will turn a loss leading tender into a profit bottom line.
Using the OHPP formula gives you the choice to very competitively knowing you will recover profit.
Using the OHPP formula will give you a clear competitive advantage that a client cannot resist.

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JOIN OUR TEAM

Do you want to learn estimating skills.

We have clients that need estimators, intermediate skilled estimators and senior estimators.

Training course cost is £1500.00.

CONTACT

Terry Gannon

Angel Estimating Services

mobile 07780 700 624

email; terrygannon61@outlook.com

Angel Estimating services