Set terms for measuring and pricing construction work, with clear boundaries around assumptions, supplier information, margins and tender submission.
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Role-specific duties
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Working hours
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Holiday entitlement
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Confidentiality
Client and company confidentiality.
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Notice periods
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When to use this contract
Produce traceable estimates and tender breakdowns, deliver current supplier and subcontract comparisons, and deliver clear assumptions, exclusions and risk allowances.
Workplace context: Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.
What makes this role different
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering commercial confidentiality. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering measurement and source accuracy. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering tender deadlines. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering bid and supplier authority. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering site rules.
Not a fit / obtain specialist advice
Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The estimator may prepare pricing and recommendations. Final margin, bid submission, supplier commitment and acceptance of unpriced risk require commercial or director approval. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
What to prepare before you issue it
the sectors, work packages and tender values within the role
the office, site-visit and hybrid-working expectations
the estimating software and pricing databases provided
the supplier-contact and quotation authority
the bid-review, margin and submission approval route
the treatment of bonuses, deadlines, confidentiality and post-tender handover
Day-to-day operating brief
What Estimator work looks like in practice
A construction estimator measures scope, obtains supplier prices and builds cost allowances for tenders or budgets. The contract should protect commercial information and distinguish preparation of an estimate from authority to submit a bid or bind the company to a price.
Responsibilities reflected in the contract
Review tender documents and identify scope, gaps and pricing risks.
Measure work and prepare traceable cost build-ups.
Obtain and compare current supplier and subcontract quotations.
Record qualifications, exclusions and assumptions transparently.
Coordinate technical and commercial input before bid review.
Protect tender rates, margins and supplier information.
A realistic working scenario
A tender drawing omits a key specification and a supplier quote expires before the proposed start. The estimator records qualifications and risk allowances and asks the bid lead to approve assumptions before submission.
Outputs to agree
traceable estimates and tender breakdowns
current supplier and subcontract comparisons
clear assumptions, exclusions and risk allowances
Records and evidence
Tender documents and query log.
Measurement and pricing workbook.
Supplier quote and comparison.
Assumption, review and submission approval.
Work records.
Handover notes.
Reporting relationship
Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.
Authority and escalation
The estimator may prepare pricing and recommendations. Final margin, bid submission, supplier commitment and acceptance of unpriced risk require commercial or director approval.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Tools and systems
Site records.
Project systems.
Risk assessment records.
Workplace context
Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.
Training and certification
Complete employer-required health and safety training.
Contract priorities
commercial confidentiality
measurement and source accuracy
tender deadlines
bid and supplier authority
Information the employer should prepare
the sectors, work packages and tender values within the role
the office, site-visit and hybrid-working expectations
the estimating software and pricing databases provided
the supplier-contact and quotation authority
the bid-review, margin and submission approval route
the treatment of bonuses, deadlines, confidentiality and post-tender handover
Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.
Maintained role evidence
The facts this Estimator contract is built around
These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for construction work.
Work setting
Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.
Primary duties
Review tender documents and identify scope, gaps and pricing risks.
Measure work and prepare traceable cost build-ups.
Obtain and compare current supplier and subcontract quotations.
Record qualifications, exclusions and assumptions transparently.
Tools and training to confirm
Site records.
Project systems.
Risk assessment records.
Complete employer-required health and safety training.
Governance focus
HSE context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering commercial confidentiality. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering measurement and source accuracy. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering tender deadlines.
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Estimator clauses and builder inputs
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Role wording
Estimator duties
Produce traceable estimates and tender breakdowns, deliver current supplier and subcontract comparisons, and deliver clear assumptions, exclusions and risk allowances.
Review tender documents and identify scope, gaps and pricing risks. Measure work and prepare traceable cost build-ups. Obtain and compare current supplier and subcontract quotations. Record qualifications, exclusions and assumptions transparently. Coordinate technical and commercial input before bid review.
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Employer and employee details Role title and reporting line Pay, hours and working pattern Holiday, probation and notice Workplace and site rules Company branding and e-sign
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What is added to the finished contract
The estimator may prepare pricing and recommendations. Final margin, bid submission, supplier commitment and acceptance of unpriced risk require commercial or director approval.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering commercial confidentiality.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering measurement and source accuracy.
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Only where delegated. The final price, qualifications and approval should be recorded by the authorised commercial decision-maker.
How should missing tender information be handled?
Raise queries and state defensible assumptions or exclusions transparently rather than hide uncertainty in the price.
Can a Construction Estimator submit a tender?
Only where delegated. Final price, margin, qualifications and contractual commitments should receive the employer's documented commercial approval.
What should an estimator record when tender documents leave a pricing gap?
Raise a query and record defensible assumptions or exclusions so reviewers understand uncertainty instead of concealing it within the price.
Can supplier quotations be shared between bids?
Use should respect confidentiality, tender purpose, validity and supplier terms; commercially sensitive quotes should remain in controlled systems.
Should site visits be included?
Yes where required, covering travel, PPE, access, inspection limitations and the evidence that should be retained with the estimate.
Who approves contingency and risk allowances?
The estimator can recommend evidenced allowances, while final risk appetite and margin remain with the authorised bid or commercial decision-maker.
What happens after the company wins the tender?
The role should provide a controlled handover of scope, quantities, quotes, assumptions, exclusions and unresolved risks to the project and commercial teams.