How many times have you missed a tender because the response process was too tightly scheduled, or because you could no longer find the price sent to a customer a few years earlier, or because you had started the estimate from scratch when one of your former colleagues had produced the same estimate, but that estimate could not be found?

It goes without saying that all of these problems can lead to the loss of certain commercial opportunities and therefore to a drop in turnover for the organisation, but also potentially a demotivation and a high turnover among all cost engineers, subject matter experts and bid managers.

This is why the area of estimating and bidding is becoming a strategic focus for large organisations, as it is partly responsible for winning business. Some mature organisations may consider implementing platforms that avoid some of the above problems and thus increase their revenue.

EPICK integrates a powerful workflow, serving as a backbone and supporting collaborative work. The knowledge capture of the estimation domain can therefore claim to be semi-automated.

Key assessment indicators, validated files, versions and reports are stored in the organisation’s central database at the right level. Everything is historically recorded in a database for a better traceability.

The various processes linked to estimates, quotations, costing or even tender responses are modelled. This digitisation of the process through the workflow allows to better control the process.

The projects and estimates stored in EPICK are used to feed dynamically updated dashboards.

Expert estimating tools are integrated into the process and activated at the right point in time, depending on the phases of the project or the type of costing to be done.

The estimation results are automatically retrieved and capitalised in a centralised database when the estimates are recorded by the cost engineers and validated by the management.

Projects are centralised in a database, accessible according to the rights allocated and have individual dashboards for better management.

Projects can be segmented according to different criteria defined by the organisation. This allows the dashboards to be filtered according to the different segments defined.

An ontological search engine is integrated, which makes it easy to find any information previously stored in EPICK. Even the assumptions stored inside the estimation files can be found by the search engine.

The segmentation of the database provides the ability to respect internal confidentiality rules and user rights are managed to facilitate user access to information.