Job 1302 · a real record, not a demo file
Six weeks, four prices, one job
This is one cladding package as it actually happened — pulled out of the live system, with the client, the builder and the project stripped off and every date and count left alone. The price went up, then down. A purchase order got knocked back. Both are still here, because that is what the record says.
- 4
- Revisions priced
- 43
- Days to award
- 15
- Follow-ups
- 29
- Costed lines
What the record shows
Every price that went out, still sitting where it was sent from
Try reconstructing this six months later from a folder of spreadsheets. That is the whole argument, and it is not hypothetical — it is this job.
Invitation in
The job goes on the board and gets a number. First follow-up recorded the same day — who sent it, and what they want back.
Rev 1 submitted
$76,165ex GSTTwo scopes priced off the takeoff, cost-coded, preliminaries and margin applied across the lot. The proposal PDF goes out of the same screen it was priced in.
Rev 2 — the scope grew
$112,079ex GSTA third scope added and the preliminaries reset. The price moves by nearly half, and the record shows exactly which scope did it — not just that the number changed.
Rev 3 — negotiated, and won
$80,000ex GSTSharpened to a round number to land the job. Rev 1 and Rev 2 are still there, whole, against the drawings they were priced on. Fifteen follow-ups over those six weeks, all on the job.
The margin and the preliminaries moved between those revisions too. Which way, and on which scope, is on the record — we have left the figures off this page because they are live commercial terms, not because they are hard to find.
The winning revision
Three scopes. One of them lost, and it is still here.
An alternative priced “in lieu” and not taken is not a mistake to tidy up — it is the answer to “what did we offer them?” the next time this builder asks. It stays with the job.
- Custom ORB245 m²
Ten costed lines across six cost codes
- Easylap125 m²
Nine lines across seven cost codes
- Exotec — in lieu of Easylap125 m²
Priced as an alternative. Not taken — and still on the record
A job like this one starts on the board, with everything else that is out with builders. The screenshot is a different job — job 1302’s own screens carry a real client on them.
The day it was won
The afternoon that used to go on re-typing
The budget seeded itself across 12 cost codes off the winning revision. Nobody opened a second spreadsheet.
The budget seeded itself
Twelve cost codes, straight off the winning revision. Nobody opened a second spreadsheet and nobody re-keyed a rate.
A purchase order went out — and came back denied
Raised against a cost code on that budget, so the committed cost was visible the day it was ordered rather than the week the invoice landed. It was declined, which is also on the record.
The supplier's invoice arrived and read itself
Dropped in as a PDF: supplier, invoice number, amount and due date come back filled in, against the same cost code and matched to its order.
And it is not the only one
The book this job came out of
Subino was built inside a working estimating business and has been running its jobs since. These are its real figures, read off the system on 26 August 2026.
- 34
- Jobs priced
- 49
- Quote revisions saved
- $3,577,402
- Work priced, ex GST
- 407
- Costed lines
No customer, head contractor or project is named anywhere on this site, and no buy rate is published. Everything above is a count or a submitted price.
The same numbers run the rest of the job — claims, variations and retention come off this estimate too.
Bring one of your own jobs
Thirty minutes, your cost codes, your rates. We price a live job of yours in front of you and you can see what it does when you win it.
No obligation, no card — thirty minutes on a job of your own.