Industrial electrical design · Control documentation · Plant BIM

Compare two budgets for the same package.

Use your own hours and rates to compare an internal option with an external proposal. This tool does not supply market benchmarks or an Advanced Mechanix price.

Enter the figures you want to compare.

Hours your internal option would take
Your fully loaded internal hourly cost
Hours quoted or estimated for the external option
The supplier rate you want to compare
Onboarding, additional review or handover costs

Make the scopes comparable first.

Include the same drawings, inputs and review requirements on both sides. Add the cost of preparing source information, onboarding, reviewing queries and accepting the handover where it applies.

The internal budget is hours × internal hourly cost. The external budget is hours × supplier hourly cost + other external costs. The difference is an arithmetic comparison, not a prediction of project savings.

Both options use the selected currency. No exchange-rate conversion is applied. The calculation runs in your browser; these figures are not sent to us.

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