Case Study: Maintec achieves faster, more accurate quoting with Countfire

Maintec quotes more efficiently with Countfire

Maintec, a Merseyside-based electrical firm of 22 staff specializing in security and communications, was struggling with a high volume of complex tenders and slow, error-prone manual takeoffs. Managing 10–15 large quotes every few weeks across multi-discipline drawings made meeting deadlines and maintaining accuracy difficult, so Maintec sought a faster, more reliable estimating method and adopted Countfire’s automated takeoff/counting software.

Countfire automated Maintec’s symbol counting, letting the team create system-specific sets, strip PDF backgrounds and automatically re-count revised drawings, backed by responsive support. The result was a dramatic productivity gain — Countfire cut a full drawing set from about two hours to roughly 15 minutes, reduced errors in quotes, sped up tender turnaround and helped Maintec choose and win the right work more confidently.

Maintec

Steve Cranshaw

Managing Director