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Construction software for civil engineering contractors
Tight control of labour, plant, materials and project resources across long-term infrastructure projects. Live cost against value on every contract, so cost-to-complete forecasts hold up and commercial risk shows up early.
The platform 3000+ construction businesses rely on
The problem today
Waiting on the invoice to find out what the job has cost
What commercial and finance teams are dealing with across a portfolio of long-term contracts.
No live view of cost
The big one is the inability to track live project cost. Teams wait for invoices to arrive from accounts before they know what has actually been spent, which makes managing budgets and making informed decisions difficult.
Long-term projects, constant financial complexity
Labour, plant hire, subcontractor costs, variations and charge backs all have the potential to move profitability through the life of a project. When cost is not captured and monitored properly, cost-to-complete forecasts lose accuracy and commercial risk is harder to spot.
Multiple frameworks and contracts
Civil engineering businesses often operate across several sectors, each with its own reporting requirements, contractual obligations and commercial processes.
How we help
Built around how civil engineering contractors actually work
Estimating, cost tracking, plant, commercial management and reporting, across every framework and contract you run.
01 Estimating and tendering
A repeatable process, whatever shape the bid arrives in
Whether you are working from a detailed bill of quantities or building an estimate from the ground up, Evaluate gives estimating teams a structured, repeatable process that lowers risk and improves accuracy.
Integrated take-off measures from electronic drawings, including PDF, CAD and BIM, and the results populate the bill of quantities directly. Once a tender is won, budgets carry over into the live contract, so there is no manual re-entry and estimated and actual cost stay consistent.
02 Project cost tracking
Cost as it happens, not once the invoice lands
Project cost and financial activity are captured as they happen, with purchasing, procurement and billing in one connected system. That gives live visibility across budgeted, committed and actual costs, so contract performance is clear as projects progress and revenue is recognised sooner.
With consolidated views, commercial teams use cost-to-complete forecasts and track cost against value, which gives an early indicator before exceeded expenditure becomes a significant loss.
03 Plant, owned and hired
Plant cost against the contract, and off-hire before it costs you
Orders for external plant accrue cost against the live contract automatically based on the terms of hire. Purchase invoices match to plant orders against a contract to catch potential overcharges, and plant is tracked by job, supplier and project manager, with built-in warnings, so you can see what needs off-hiring.
Internal plant management gives a high-level status view: items needing service, MOT or repair, and the purchase quotes, orders and invoices behind each one.
04 Commerical management
Variations recorded on site, recovered in the application
Manage the full financial journey of every project in one system. Commercial teams keep accurate records of variations on site, so cost incurred is attributed back to applications for payment. Retention tracking, release dates and outstanding balances sit in one place, so earned revenue comes back to the business.
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Alto Construct got the commercial and finance teams out of spreadsheets
"Construct got rid of every spreadsheet for our commercial and finance teams. They use it every day and it’s become a one-stop shop for us."
Paul Sanderson
Managing Director, Alto Construct
Trusted by over 3,000 construction businesses in the UK and Ireland
Built on trusted Microsoft and Sage foundations
Which product
Where civil engineering contractors start
Three products, one commercial model. Estimating serves every size, and the finance layer splits on scale.
Evaluate
Serves all sizes
Estimating and tendering with integrated take-off from PDF, CAD and BIM drawings, feeding the won budget straight into the live contract.
Construct
£100k to £25m turnover
Project cost tracking, plant, commercial management and applications alongside the accounting system you already run.
Evision
£25m turnover and above
The same cost model across multiple companies, locations and frameworks, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
FAQs
Can we see live project cost before the invoices arrive?
Yes. Purchasing, procurement and billing sit in one connected system, so committed cost is visible as orders are raised rather than when the invoice reaches accounts. Commercial teams read budgeted, committed and actual cost together, which is what makes a cost-to-complete forecast worth acting on.
Does it track plant cost against the contract?
Yes. Plant orders raised accrue cost against the live contract, and purchase invoices match back to those orders so overcharges get caught. Plant is tracked by job, supplier and project manager, so items sitting idle can be off-hired before the cost mounts up.
Can it handle work across multiple frameworks and contracts?
Yes. Each contract carries its own budget, commitments, valuations, variations and retentions, and consolidated dashboards report across contracts, companies and locations. Teams working to different reporting requirements draw from the same underlying records rather than rebuilding them per framework.
See where cost is reaching your reports late
Speak to our team and we will walk through how cost lands on your contracts today, and where the lag is sitting. If you would rather see it first, book a demo.
