Online Enquiries improves efficiency and shortens tender response time
“I save around 3-4 days per tender by using Online Enquiries. If we price 150 tenders per year, this will give approximately 500 man-days longer for our supply chain to price the enquiry.” David Barbour, Estimating Manager, akp Scotland.
ConQuest’s cloud-based Online Enquiries system streamlines the way you send enquiries. In just a few clicks, multiple trade bills and enquiry letters are created for a whole project, no matter the size.
The system, part of ConQuest Construction Estimating, allows you to easily create subcontractor/supplier document packages, store them on the cloud and send notification emails. Live tracking let’s you see which subcontractors and suppliers have viewed and downloaded the information, saving you time chasing quotes.
Read how Online Enquiries has helped other estimators improve the efficiency of their enquiry process, increase their capacity to process tenders and improved their communication with their subcontractors.
- Ditch Dropbox and get subcontractor prices back quicker
- Send subcontractor enquiries in real time while estimating
- Get more prices in, without spending hours chasing them
Do more, faster
ConQuest Estimating's Online Enquiries has a huge impact on how contractors package and send enquiries. It simplifies the whole enquiry process and makes it quicker and more straightforward for everyone involved.
“I save around 3-4 days per tender by using Online Enquiries. If we price 150 tenders per year, this will give approximately 500 man-days longer for our supply chain to price the enquiry… The number of projects we manage to tender each year has increased by about 15% since we have started using the online system,” David Barbour, Estimating Manager, akp Scotland.
Improving the efficiency of your enquiries process saves time, allowing you to increase your capacity and achieve more with the same amount of resources.
“The time savings are incredible, in 24 hours I can get 3 times as many enquiries sent out,” Will Earl, PLP Construction.
Online Enquiries is trusted by over 100,000 users. The simple and flexible system suits every size project, meaning your time can be spent getting on with your job, rather than swamped in laborious admin tasks.
"Online Enquiries is time saving and cost saving. I am getting more responses than I ever thought I would… We get lots and lots of amendments to everything nowadays and Onlinee Enquiries makes sending them much easier,’’ Gez McDaid, Principal Estimator, Willmott Dixon.
Keep track of progress
Even in today’s connected world, enquiries are sent and received in a huge variety of formats: post, CD, email, Dropbox and many more complicated and long-winded ways.
As well as taking you a long time to package and send these enquiries, the sheer volume of information is often overkill. With Online Enquiries you can quickly create a package for each trade and send a link to your subcontractors in minutes. The subcontractors and suppliers don’t have to register, they don’t need passwords, they don’t have to pay or spend hours searching for what they need.
One click, and they have the exact documents they require. No more missed documents, or contractors giving up on complicated systems.
“The subcontractors are really getting into it, it is more user friendly than Dropbox, there are no passwords, and nothing expires. They seem genuinely impressed with the quality of information they receive and the fact that we package all the information. What is really good is that sometimes a subcontractor will quote for an additional trade as well, they can all have access to all information for all packages if we want them to,” Peter Latham, The Eric Wright Group.
Using the tracking system, you can also see, in real time, who is looking at the enquiry, who is going to give you a quote and who has declined the invitation to tender.
You can quickly filter through the tracking sheet and tag groups of people, who, for example, have not sent a quote and email them using the integrated email system. The whole process can be managed easily, remotely and with an audit trail.
“I like the tracking system, if subcontractors say they didn’t get the documents we can see if they have downloaded them, you can see who has priced the enquiry you sent or if they have priced someone else’s which is important on a lot of design and build stuff,” David Barbour, Estimating Manager, akp Scotland.
An easy, intuitive system
ConQuest Estimating has been designed to be intuitive and practical. Adopting and using the software is straightforward and you can quickly start reaping the rewards of the integrated system.
“It is user friendly, quick and effective,” Gez McDaid, Principal Estimator, Willmott Dixon.
You can upload your complete database of subcontractors and suppliers into ConQuest, along with any invitation to tender and associated standard enquiry documents. No matter how big your project, you can create multiple trade bills in seconds. The same applies to creating invitation to tender letters containing project and trade specific information.
“The way ConQuest is set up and the Online Enquiries, I can’t fault it to be honest. I had been using another system for quite a few years, but ConQuest is so much better, you just can’t compare them,” Jonathan McNichol, QS/Estimator, 8Build.
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