Estimating Link - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Estimating Link software is designed specifically for heavy civil construction estimating and bidding. This easy-to-use program helps you centralize your data, increase your speed & accuracy, and increase profit margins.

Features

• Bid Sheet - Summarizes all the Primary Items/Tasks with the Bid Quantities, Unit Prices, Total Prices, and more. Add project overhead, bond costs, corporate overhead and desired profit percentages.

• Item Sheets – Add your resources, enter your production in days or hours, and and Estimating Link will calculate your item unit and total cost, manhours, and more.

• Rate Library - Simple, one-time setup of your reusable crews, equipment, material, and other project rates.

• Sub-Items & Indirect Items – create complex items/tasks or phases of a job using sub-items. Spread your indirect costs across your items.

• Alternates & Fixed Price Items – add alternate items to your bid as well as fixed price items your customer requires.

• Move Money - Take advantage of windfall profit/loss and track the money.

• Fuel Calculator - Easily change fuel rates and update your entire project at the last minute.

• Subcontractor, Material and Rate Table Comparison - update material and/or subcontractor price quotes in a project and update your bid price in a click.

• Pipe Trench Calculator - Calculate the amount of fill or bedding required to fill a trench.

• Haul Calculator - Instantly determine truck quantities, haul time, and distance-based costs.

• Check Bid - this features checks your bid for potential errors before submitting your bid to your client. It looks for zero quantities, zero cost entries, no item markup, temporary pricing, and more.

• Accounting Integration – Estimating Link integrates with most major accounting systems.

Additional features include:

• State DOT Electronic Bidding Integration

• Metric to English Conversion

• Over 70 Reporting options

• Project Classifications

• Password Protection for projects

• Spreadsheet Imports and Exports

• Catalogs for instant item building

• Template Customizations throughout

Estimating Link is accessible via a local desktop application, a desktop application connected to a local server, or via a Virtual Desktop hosted on TCLI's servers. The program is easy to use in a multi-user environment whether you house your data locally or on TCLI's cloud. Users can share data across projects and can even work in the same project at the same time. TCLI's Virtual Desktop can be accessed from any computer or tablet with an internet connection.