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Cost Estimating
Estimates you can bid on
Quantity take-offs, pricing analysis, and cost estimates built to the level of detail your bid actually needs — not a rough number, a submittable one.
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Pre-Construction Estimating & Bid Pursuit
You don't pay us until you win.
MFD builds the estimate and the bid package. You submit it. If you're not awarded the contract, you owe us nothing — no retainer, no hourly rate, no exceptions.
This is MFD
Before the Contract
Estimating, pricing, and bid preparation — the work that gets you to a signature.
- Cost estimating & quantity take-offs
- Opportunity identification & pursuit strategy
- Complete bid & proposal packages
- Pricing analysis & competitive positioning
Not Us
After the Contract
Project delivery, operations, and business-wide consulting — a different job for a different firm.
- Project management & delivery
- Operational consulting
- Business structure & systems
- Standard operating procedures
MFD's scope ends exactly where the contract begins. That line is deliberate — it's what lets us take on the pursuit risk in the first place.
The Model
Most estimating help bills you either way.
Retainers, hourly rates, flat fees — paid whether or not you win the work. We built MFD around a different bet: we only get paid when you do.
Typical Estimating Partner
Fee to start a pursuitDue now
If you lose the bidYou still paid
If you win the bidYou already paid
Their risk in the pursuitNone
MFD Estimating Group
Our model
Fee to start a pursuit$0
If you lose the bidYou owe nothing
If you win the bidWe share the win
Our risk in the pursuitAll of it
What We Do
Everything it takes to get from opportunity to submission.
One scope, one team, one line we don't cross.
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Opportunity Pursuit
Finding the right work
Identifying, qualifying, and building a pursuit strategy for solicitations and prospective bids worth your time — before you commit resources to chase them.
Qualify an opportunity
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Pre-Construction Consulting
Deciding how to bid it
Consulting on how to price, structure, and position a specific project or contract pursuit — support aimed squarely at winning the submission.
Talk through a bidHow a Pursuit Works
From opportunity to award.
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Identify
We find it, or you bring it
Sourced by MFD or referred by you — either way, the opportunity moves through the same process.
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Estimate
We build the numbers and the package
Cost estimating, pricing, and a complete bid or proposal package, ready to submit.
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Submit
You submit it, on your name
You control final submission and the client relationship, start to finish.
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Award
You win, we share the win
No award, no fee. That's the whole arrangement — nothing owed until there's something to share.
Why It Works This Way
The incentive only points one direction.
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Upfront
No fee to start a pursuit, no retainer to keep us engaged. The cost only exists once there's a win to fund it.
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Scope, not two
Pre-contract only. We don't drift into project delivery or operations — that focus is what makes the estimate sharp.
WY
Registered entity
MFD Estimating Group, LLC is a properly formed and governed Wyoming limited liability company.
100%
Aligned outcome
We're only compensated when you are. There's no version of our engagement where you win and we don't, or you lose and we do.
Part of a Broader Team
Two firms, one line between them.
MFD Estimating Group is built and led by the same team behind MLD Consulting, an operational consulting firm serving construction businesses after the contract is signed.
The two are separate on purpose. MFD gets you to the win. MLD helps you run the business once you have it. Ask us if you need both — we'll tell you which one you actually need first.
Start a Pursuit
Have an opportunity you're deciding whether to chase?
Send it over. If it's not worth pursuing, we'll tell you that too — that conversation costs you nothing either.