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CityWide confidently controls estimating across several
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CityWide Service Solutions is one of Australia’s
fastest growing physical services companies. A diverse business, CityWide provides environmental,
engineering and maintenance services to both the
commercial and government sectors, including; civil
contracting, asphalt supply & paving, waste
collection, recycling, horticulture, arboriculture,
street cleaning and parking meter maintenance.
Central to CityWide’s current success and continued
growth is their ability to produce accurate,
profitable and competitive estimates. Securing
diverse, long-term
service contracts for large Local Government
organisations and winning profitable asphalt and
road projects are key elements of CityWide’s growth
strategy.
Moving away from Spreadsheets
CityWide previously used spreadsheets for their
estimating, but spreadsheets are prone to error and
make controlling the estimating process very
difficult. CityWide’s Senior Estimator, Mark Scolyer
says, “We previously used spreadsheets for
estimating, but it is just so easy to miss a simple
link which can lead to embarrassing and costly
errors. To minimize this risk, we had to move our
estimating process to a more robust, controlled
system.”
Controlling estimating across diverse divisions
CityWide’s chosen tool to tackle estimates ranging
from large Government works contracts to smaller,
day-to-day asphalt quotes is now Benchmark
Estimating Software. Mark details the process
behind CityWide’s adoption of Benchmark. He says,
“Initially the asphalt division wanted to gain
 greater control over the estimating process, saw
that Benchmark was essentially the standard in the
Australian asphalting industry, and quickly adopted
the software. Not long after that, the Civil Care
department, which
handles the important Local
Government contracts, began to search for a better
way to estimate. After an extensive search it was
soon discovered that Benchmark would also be the
most reliable system for our civil works.”
One feature that particularly impresses Mark for
the day-to-day estimating is the Production Rate
functionality. Mark says, “If the works are
similar, I can copy a previous project, modify the
productivity to suit the new project, and the new
estimate is well underway.”
Mark concludes, “The most appealing aspects
of Benchmark are that it gives us consistency,
reliability, and the confidence that all estimates
are going to be based on the right numbers.”
Because of this, Benchmark is now the central
system used to create CityWide’s most important
estimates.
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