Key elements that go into a professional construction proposal consist of the following areas you’ll need to consider. Here’s a brief guide of everything that goes into making a proposal engaging, informative, and in the right direction for winning new business.
Inside a great construction proposal
1. Project details: Identifying the parties involved, including your business along with the client project site location and project owners.
2. Scope of the project: The work needed to be done
3. Costs: Detailed for each line item of work involved
4. Terms of the proposal
A construction proposal template created for busy contractors, remodelers, and designers
This all-in-one construction proposal template has been designed by BuildBook with built-in formulas and calculations to reduce the complexity and time it takes to estimate projects and send your clients proposals ... and it's completely free!
The BuildBook Construction Proposal Template makes it easy to generate all the information required to prepare documents ready to send to prospective clients. It offers a flexible format for all general and specialty contractors to thoughtfully craft estimates through a reusable web template.
The proposal template begins with basic inputs for the project. Customize the presentation with your business name and logo, then detail the client and project location.
Use the included worksheet to add both internal and retail costs with projected profit margins so you can effectively control how much money you’re making.
Categories help define buckets of line items involved in the project. By categorizing costs, it’ll make it easy for your clients to see which line items relate to the broad task at hand.
The construction proposal template offers a calculated set of formulas that only reveals the costs that clients need to see while hiding all the internal fees and profit margins.
Let’s not forget the most important part–the signed estimate! Included are a cover sheet and the signature page as extra pages you’ll need to round out the estimate.
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