Built for heavy civil and sitework contractors who are ready to move beyond spreadsheets.
Estimating Software Accessible in the Cloud
Bid more work with the same staff.
Standardize crew, labor, and equipment costs across your team.
Get from first demo to first live bid in weeks, not months.
⭐ 38+ Years Serving, Now in the Cloud
⭐ U.S.-Based Support
⭐ Billions of dollars won
⭐ Built for Crew-Based Bidding
⭐ Used by 1,000+ Estimators Nationwide
Feature
Setup Time
Learning Curve
Cost for 5 Estimators
Heavy Civil Fit
Support
Spreadsheets
Immediate but fragile
Steep, error-prone
$
Poor
None
Enterprise Platforms
Long and complex
Very steep
$$$
Mixed
Ticket-based
SharpeSoft
Fast and guided
Estimator-friendly
$$
Purpose-built
Hands-on
See How We Compare
Who SharpeSoft Estimator Is For
SharpeSoft Estimator is built specifically for contractors who self-perform heavy civil and sitework scopes and need a practical, proven estimating system — not generic commercial estimating software.
SharpeSoft is designed for real-world civil estimating — where quantities, crews, equipment, production rates, and job conditions matter.
Company Types
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Excavation and earthwork contractors
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Underground utilities (water, sewer, storm, dry utilities)
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Roadwork, paving, and grading contractors
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Sitework and mass grading firms
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Pipeline and infrastructure contractors
Company Sizes
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Small, family-owned contractors bidding work themselves
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Mid-size regional contractors with dedicated estimating teams
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Multi-branch or multi-company firms that need consistency across bids
Roles
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Senior estimators managing complex bids and teams
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Junior estimators learning structured heavy civil estimating
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Owners and project managers who still estimate work directly
How a Heavy Civil Bid Flows Through SharpeSoft
1. Start From Plans and Quantities
Estimators begin by building quantities from plans, takeoffs, or imported data. SharpeSoft organizes quantities by bid item, phase, and scope so nothing is missed and revisions are easy to manage.
2. Apply Your Crews, Labor, and Equipment
Crews, labor rates, equipment spreads, and production rates are applied directly to quantities. Costs are calculated using your database so estimates reflect how you actually build the work.
3. Refine Indirects, Markups, and Alternates
Estimators layer in indirect costs, markups, and alternates while keeping full visibility into how each decision affects the bottom line. What-if scenarios can be reviewed without rebuilding the estimate.
4. Review, Round, and Lock the Bid
Before bid submission, estimators review summaries, apply rounding logic, and verify totals. SharpeSoft makes it easy to check numbers, catch errors, and finalize pricing with confidence.
5. Hand Off to Operations and Job Cost
Once awarded, bid data can be handed off for job setup and tracking.
This reduces re-keying, preserves estimating assumptions, and improves cost control downstream.
Ease Of Use
What If Scenerios
Powerful Reporting
Integrates Into Most Software
Estimating Software Accessible in the Cloud
Quickly build an estimate out from start to finish in just 10 minutes. The SharpeSoft Estimator is the most efficient and affordably priced estimating software on the market today.
Rounding Sheet
The Rounding Sheet provides for automatic rounding or balancing of unit prices as well as manually adjusting individual bid prices. For jobs with alternates, totals are displayed for each defined bid package, which can also be locked.
Solves: Last-minute pricing adjustments, awkward bid totals, and inconsistent rounding.
Where it fits: Step 4 — Review and lock the bid.
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Applies consistent rounding rules across bid items or totals
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Quickly adjusts pricing without distorting cost logic
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Maintains professional, clean bid numbers
Ideal for: Public bids, DOT work, and competitive low-bid environments.
Summary
The Summary window provides a recap of all job costs and allows for the most comprehensive markup configurations available -- no other system compares!
Solves: Difficulty reviewing total job costs and configuring markups accurately across the entire estimate.
Where it fits: Step 4 — Review, round, and lock the bid.
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Provides a complete recap of all job costs in one place
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Allows comprehensive markup configuration across the estimate
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Makes it easier to review pricing before finalizing the bid
Ideal for: Estimators and owners who need full visibility into total costs and markups before submission.
Trench Profile
Calculate the exact dimensions of any trench you may need with the Trench Profiler. Enter exact dimensions of each fill section, materials, and pipes to be used, and let the system automatically calculate the volume and spoilage.
Solves: Complex trench volume calculations and underground utility takeoffs.
Where it fits: Steps 1 and 2 — Quantities and production modeling.
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Calculates trench volumes based on depth, width, and conditions
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Accounts for bedding, backfill, and excavation variations
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Reduces manual math and spreadsheet errors
Ideal for: Underground utilities, pipeline, and deep trench work.
Reporting
Generate one of hundreds of different reports, customized to your exact specifications. Selection and processing options allow total customization, (Reports are instantly available - no saving, no exporting), and even include your company logo in proposals!
Solves: Manual report creation, limited formatting options, and time wasted exporting or rebuilding bid information for proposals.
Where it fits: Step 4 and 5 — Review, round, and lock the bid, hand off to operations and job cost
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Generate hundreds of report variations based on your selections
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Customize reports using built-in selection and processing options
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Instantly view reports without saving or exporting
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Include your company logo in proposal reports
Ideal for: Teams that need flexible, professional reports for internal review and bid submissions.
With SharpeSoft Estimator, you will navigate quickly and easily through the most user-friendly and intuitive interface available.
In fact, it is so easy that most users can begin bidding jobs after just one training session.
Save countless hours of time dedicated to data entry by reusing completed bid items from past jobs that have been saved to your library.
In addition, you can create reusable crews and assemblies with all of their labor, equipment, materials, trucking, and other items and then load them into the estimate as a single unit, saving even more data entry time.
If you need to get the bid out quickly, you can have multiple estimators work on the same job - even the same bid item - at the same time, and all of their work is automatically applied and saved in real-time.
Maximize the accuracy of your cost detail by breaking your bid items into unlimited levels and sub-item levels, so that every cost for a work item is accounted for.
Subcontractor and Material comparisons allow you to easily create and email quote requests to your vendors and subcontractors and then compare returned quotes side by side to easily determine their best prices.
Returned quotes can be loaded into your estimate with just one click, so you are sure that you are using the latest data right up to the bid deadline.
Using the Trench Profiler you can easily create cross-section diagrams of your trenches, automatically calculate your excavation, spoils, fill, and pipe quantities, and update related material quantities in your estimate with just one click.
Estimator’s comprehensive security system allows you to set user access to prevent unauthorized changes to estimates, labor rates, equipment rates, company information, etc.
You can assign permissions to individual users and/or customizable user groups.
Week 1
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Discovery and workflow review
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Database planning
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Import of existing spreadsheets or historical data
Week 2
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Database build and customization
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Initial training sessions
Week 3
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First live bid built in SharpeSoft
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Support available during real estimating work
Fast Implementation and Onboarding
SharpeSoft focuses on getting your team bidding real work quickly — without long, expensive deployments.
What SharpeSoft Handles
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Database setup and structure
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Templates and estimating logic
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Training and onboarding support
What Contractors Provide
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Recent bids or spreadsheets
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Cost history and crew assumptions
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Feedback to tailor the system
Built on the proven platform of Microsoft SQL Server, and ranked #1 in the industry in price-to-performance benchmarks, SharpeSoft Estimator offers excellent performance and scalability for civil construction contractors of all sizes.
By far, the most user-friendly system available, without sacrificing advanced features and functionality.
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Built specifically for heavy civil and sitework estimating — not generic light commercial or office workflows
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Easy for new estimators to learn, while still powerful enough for complex bids
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Affordable for growing teams without the cost and overhead of enterprise estimating platforms
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Strong onboarding and hands-on support from people who understand estimating
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Designed for contractors, whether you’re a small family business or a growing regional firm
SharpeSoft is more than just estimating software. Contractors choose SharpeSoft because they know there is a real team behind the product — ready to support them from the first bid and well beyond.
SharpeSoft is built to support estimating teams as they grow — from the first bid in the system to years of successful project submissions.
Schedule an online demonstration or give one of our representatives a call at 800-777-0786 for information on how SharpeSoft Estimator can help you bid more jobs in less time, win more bids, and increase your bottom line.
Training designed around real estimating workflows
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Remote, live, instructor-led training sessions
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One-to-one or group training depending on team needs
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Training centered on real jobs and real estimating workflows
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Recorded resources available for ongoing reference
Responsive support when you need it
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Support available during normal business hours
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Assistance from knowledgeable staff familiar with estimating workflows
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Direct access to support without generic call center handoffs
A long-term partner, not just a software vendor
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Ongoing support to help teams continue improving their estimating process
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Software updates and enhancements rolled out over time
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A consistent support team that understands your estimating needs as your business grows
Most contractors are able to build and submit their first live bid in SharpeSoft within a few weeks.
The timeline depends on the size of your database, the complexity of your estimates, and how your team prefers to work. During onboarding, SharpeSoft works with you to set up your database, review workflows, and provide training so your first bid is built using your real quantities, crews, and cost structure — not generic templates.
Yes. SharpeSoft Estimator can support multiple companies, branches, or divisions within the same system.
Estimating teams can manage separate data sets where needed while maintaining consistency across bid structure, reporting, and workflows. This makes SharpeSoft suitable for both single-location contractors and growing organizations with multiple estimating groups.
Yes, existing Excel spreadsheets and estimating data can be imported into SharpeSoft.
This helps reduce re-keying and allows teams to start with familiar items, crews, and cost structures. During implementation, SharpeSoft works with contractors to organize and structure imported data so it aligns with how estimates are built and maintained going forward.
SharpeSoft provides support during normal business hours to help estimators work through questions as they build bids.
Support is provided by knowledgeable staff familiar with the software and estimating workflows, so questions can be addressed efficiently without generic troubleshooting handoffs. Many contractors value having access to people who understand both the system and the realities of estimating work.
SharpeSoft includes summary views, reporting tools, and review features that help estimators verify quantities, costs, markups, and totals before finalizing a bid.
These tools are designed to make it easier to catch inconsistencies, review assumptions, and confirm pricing logic prior to submission.
SharpeSoft Estimator is purpose-built for heavy civil, excavation, sitework, and infrastructure estimating.
The system is designed around the workflows, quantities, and cost structures common in civil construction — rather than generic estimating models intended for light commercial or vertical building projects.
Who SharpeSoft Estimator Is For
SharpeSoft Estimator is designed to fit into existing estimating and business workflows rather than forcing contractors to abandon the tools they already rely on. The system supports practical data exchange so estimators can move information in and out efficiently and avoid unnecessary re-keying.
Import quantities and bid data into SharpeSoft
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Estimators can bring quantities and bid information into SharpeSoft from external sources, including spreadsheet-based takeoffs and digital plan workflows.
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Imported data can be organized by bid item, phase, or scope to match how the estimate is built and reviewed.
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This allows teams to continue using familiar takeoff methods while leveraging SharpeSoft for pricing, crews, markups, and bid management.
Export estimate data for downstream use
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Bid results and estimate details can be exported in standard formats such as Excel or CSV.
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Exported data can be shared with accounting, project setup, or internal review processes without manual re-entry.
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Reports and summaries can be generated directly from SharpeSoft to support proposal submission, internal approval, or handoff to operations.
Flexible reporting and data access
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SharpeSoft’s reporting tools allow estimators to generate detailed cost breakdowns, summaries, and supporting documentation directly from the estimate.
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Reports are available instantly and can be customized to match company standards and client requirements.
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This flexibility makes it easier to share consistent information across estimating, management, and operations teams.
Designed to support real-world estimating workflows
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SharpeSoft does not require a single rigid toolchain to function.
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Contractors can continue using their preferred takeoff, spreadsheet, or document workflows while centralizing pricing, markups, and estimate logic inside SharpeSoft.
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This approach helps teams improve accuracy and efficiency without disrupting established processes.
Example use cases
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Import quantities from your existing takeoff workflow so you do not re-key measurements.
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Export bid summaries to Excel for sharing with accounting or management.
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Generate proposal-ready reports directly from the estimate using your company’s formatting.