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Scope & Margin

Renovation bid consulting

For contractors who price residential renovations. Check your scope, work back from your target margin, or get a second set of eyes on a bid before it goes out.

Explore consulting offers Try the free scope checker
Fictional kitchen renovation

Scope excerpt

  • Site protection

    Protect existing finishes as required.

    Clarify

  • Electrical allowance

    Electrical included with a C$2,500 allowance.

    Clarify

  • Disposal and cleanup

    Responsibility is unstated.

    Open

Consulting offers

Focused Bid Review

C$349 per residential renovation bid

Send up to 15 pages for a remote review. You’ll receive a prioritized report with references to the documents you supplied.

  • Scope questions, trade exclusions, and allowance assumptions
  • Margin arithmetic checked against your estimated costs
  • Suggested wording for the items that need clarification
  • 20-minute handover and one round of clarifications

Target turnaround is three business days after the delivery slot and complete inputs are confirmed.

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Contractor Bid Toolkit

C$79 one payment for one business

An offline browser workspace you can reuse on each bid. Enter your own costs and export the documents you prepare.

  • Job cost, contingency, gross margin, and entered tax calculator
  • 54-point renovation scope register
  • Printable proposal and change order builders
  • Weekly client update builder
  • Job backup import and export, fictional sample job, and Quick Start PDF

Request a copy by email to confirm payment and delivery details.

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Prices are in Canadian dollars. The request buttons open your email app.

Margin calculator

Set your target gross margin, then calculate the selling price from your estimated costs. Add a contingency to the cost before calculating margin.

On a C$40,000 cost, a 25% markup gives a C$50,000 price and a 20% gross margin. A 25% gross margin requires C$53,333.33 before tax.

Gross profit still has to cover your business overhead.

Price before tax$53,333.33
Cost with contingency
$40,000.00
Gross profit
$13,333.33
Equivalent markup
33.33%

Free scope checker

Choose a project type and classify the scope decisions. Unanswered items stay on your clarification list.

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Before you request

Questions about either offer? Email chad@wcnc.ca.

What should I send for a bid review?

Start with the project type, bid deadline, approximate page count, and decisions you want help with. Once we agree on the scope and delivery slot, we’ll arrange how to share the quote, estimate, and relevant drawings.

How do I use the toolkit after delivery?

Save and extract the ZIP, then open the HTML workspace in your browser. Follow the Quick Start PDF or load the fictional job. Export job backups as you work and print your documents to PDF from your browser. One setup question is included.

Where do the pricing inputs come from?

You enter your own labour, materials, and trade costs. The tools use your inputs to calculate prices and organize the scope.

What does the free scope checker cover?

The checker turns your answers to project-specific prompts into questions to resolve. The Focused Bid Review is a separate review of the documents you supply.