4 Reasons for Outsourcing Your Quantity Surveying Needs
1. Reduce your overheads: Construction industry is mostly affected by Covid-19 and other economic factors and this can be seen by the major increase in raw materials like steel and cement. Outsourcing the profession of the Quantity Surveyor will help your company remain competitive without missing out on the important service provided by your inhouse Quantity Surveyor. The cost saving outsourcing your Quantity surveyor needs vs employ a full time inhouse Quantity Surveyor is huge.
2. Reduce operation cost while ensuring accuracy of takeoffs: Nowadays construction project are becoming more complex and the accuracy of the construction work takeoffs are vital to ensure that the Contractors’ Tenders are accurate and competitive. However, in order to receive this competitive advantage, Contractors’ must invest on advance takeoff software increasing their operational costs. However, Contractors outsourcing those works to a well-established firm (such us QS-ing which is using one of the most advance takeoff software known as CostX) will receive this competitive advantage without any effect on their operation costs.
3. Affordability: Many Contractors are not in a possession to afford a full time Quantity Surveyor and missing out on numerous advantages such as (accuracy of tenders, cashflow projections, identification of potential financial issue on the project, potential claims for additional money and much more). Contractors no able to afford a Quantity Surveyor can easily receive all of those benefits by simply outsourcing their Quantity Surveying needs.
4. More economical solution: Outsourcing Online your Quantity Surveying needs may be cheaper than employing a local Quantity Surveying firm. This economic difference is mostly due to countries tax frameworks and cost of living. However, this is tricky and Contractors must be extremely careful on selecting an Online-firms as any inaccuracy in the service provided may cause major financial consciences. Nevertheless, our company QS-ing is based in Cyprus (a European Union Country) where taxes and cost of living allow as be very competitive.