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Bid + crew
Travel & lodging
Other direct & indirect
Project margin
39.3%
Profit $112,057 on a $285,000 bid
Cost breakdown
Direct labor (1,344 hrs @ $45)$60,480
Travel labor$1,350
Vehicle / mileage$188
Per diem$21,000
Equipment rental$18,000
Materials$42,000
Bond + insurance$7,125
Overhead allocation$22,800
Total costs$172,943
Outcome
Bid revenue$285,000
Total costs$172,943
Net profit$112,057
The honest version
The margin you see above assumes everything goes to plan. In coating contracting, two things blow it up: weather delays on time-and-materials jobs you didn’t price for, and scope creep from change orders that took 6 weeks to get approved while the crew sat. A bid that pencils at 22% margin can finish at 4% if you lose 8 days to rain.
IndustrialCoatingsOps tracks real labor + materials + travel against the bid in real time, so you see margin erosion as it happens — not at the end of the project when there’s nothing left to do about it.
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