The CCFE Group
The CCFE Group provides professional commercial estimating and pre-construction intelligence that helps contractors understand their scope, document unresolved conditions, and make better-informed bidding decisions.
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Experience measured through the clients we support, the projects we estimate, and the construction intelligence we deliver.
463
Clients Served
543,586,331
Square Feet Estimated
36,465,344
Square Feet Reviewed
SQUARES AI & ROGUE IQ
30.78%
Client Bid-to-Award Rate
6
Countries With Project Experience
01Choose Your Service
Estimating for a specific trade, pre-construction intelligence across the whole document set, or both. Each service below states its own starting price, its deliverables, and how to request it.
Division 09 Estimators
Starting at $200 per project
Commercial flooring and tile takeoffs, quantities, revisions, and bid support, produced from the project documents by U.S.-based estimators.
What you receive
Quantity takeoffs and quantities reporting
Estimating files prepared in RFMS Measure or Measure Square
The CCFE Bid Playbook
Simple shop drawings at estimating level
Division 08 Estimators
Starting at $250 per project
Storefront elevations, glass schedules, aluminum entrance systems, glazing requirements, and hardware coordination inside the established Division 08 service boundaries.
What you receive
Storefront and glass quantity takeoffs
Estimating files and quantities reporting
The CCFE Bid Playbook
Simple shop drawings at estimating level
Compass Global
Custom project quote
Pre-construction document review that establishes what is included, what conflicts, what is missing, what requires qualification, and where risk may exist before the bid becomes a commitment.
What you receive
Reviewed document set with structured findings
Scope conditions and unresolved items identified
Deliverables defined for the engagement
Engaged per project
Pre-Bid Intelligence
Confirm pricing through project review
View detailsContract Administration Intelligence
Confirm pricing and scope through inquiry
View detailsSpecification & Product Intelligence
Confirm pricing through scope review
View details02What Makes CCFE Different
An estimate that only reports quantities leaves the contractor to discover the qualifications, gaps, and unresolved conditions on their own. The CCFE deliverable is built to close that distance.
Estimators seated in the United States with real commercial construction experience, not a software queue.
Drawings, specifications, addenda, and schedules are read together, because critical requirements often appear in only one of them.
Quantities are reported in a form a contractor can carry into the bid, with the basis of each measurement traceable to the documents.
What could not be confirmed from the documents is documented as an assumption, a qualification, or a clarification item instead of being silently assumed.
Estimating files, estimating-level shop drawings, and the CCFE Bid Playbook — the material a bid actually gets built from.
03What You Receive
An estimate should explain more than how much material is shown. It should help the contractor understand what has been measured, what has been qualified, and which conditions remain unresolved.
Standard Estimating Deliverables
Commercial estimating and quantity takeoffs
Applicable estimating files, prepared in RFMS Measure or MeasureSquare where the scope uses takeoff software
Quantities reporting
The CCFE Bid Playbook, included with Division 09 and Division 08 estimating engagements
Simple shop drawings documenting estimated material locations, layouts, scope boundaries, and related project conditions
Project-specific estimating qualifications
Relevant scope and document review
Optional or Separately Contracted
Detailed shop drawings, when separately requested and agreed
Additional intelligence reporting, such as contract administration intelligence or product and specification intelligence, when separately engaged
Large or complex project estimating, individually quoted
Deliverables are defined per engagement. Not every project receives every report, and nothing outside the agreed scope is delivered automatically. Simple shop drawings are estimating-level documentation; they are not engineered, sealed, or fabrication-ready drawings.
04Actual Deliverables
Samples are published from real CCFE work. You can also run a live sample on your own documents for the two exhibits that support it.
Included with every Division 08 and Division 09 estimating project.
A published Bid Playbook sample showing how bid-scope conditions, quantities, and qualifications are organized for a contractor’s bid review.
View sampleDelivered CCFE exhibits and reports.
Completed reports from real engagements, published so you can judge the format and the level of detail before you engage CCFE.
View sampleEstimating-level drawing sets.
Estimating-level shop drawings that document estimated material locations, layouts, and scope boundaries. These are not engineered or fabrication-ready drawings.
View sample05How It Works
Six steps from inquiry to delivered estimate, with scope and pricing agreed before work starts.
Choose the service that matches the work: Division 09 flooring and tile estimating, Division 08 glass and storefront estimating, or Compass Global pre-construction intelligence.
Contact details, company, project name and location, the service you are requesting, your bid date if you have one, and a short project description.
After the initial conversation, CCFE provides instructions for transferring plans, specifications, and schedules through the approved secure submission process.
CCFE confirms what is included, what is optional, and what the project will cost — before any work begins.
Estimating begins once the scope, deliverables, and pricing are agreed in writing.
The agreed estimating or intelligence deliverables are delivered for your bid, with the qualifications and open items documented.
Project documents are accepted only through the approved secure submission process. The inquiry form on this website does not accept confidential plans, specifications, or bid documents. Secure submission instructions are provided after the initial conversation, so confidential project material is never handled through an ordinary web form.
Submitting an inquiry starts a conversation. No project work begins until scope, deliverables, and pricing are agreed.
06Case Studies
Problem, intelligence, result — from real CCFE engagements.
Problem
More than 4,000 pages of project information contained conflicting design direction and varying product assignments distributed across the project record. CCFE and SQUARES AI™ connected the relevant information and reduced the issue to a concise three-paragraph finding.
DOCUMENTED OUTCOME
The general contractor subsequently sent CCFE 11 additional awarded projects for review.
Problem
The project documents established a general sand-and-finish intent for existing heartwood pine but left final quantities, refinishing limits, finish-system requirements, repair thresholds, and several coordination conditions unresolved.
ESTIMATING OUTCOME
CCFE separated defined work from assumptions, exclusions, field-dependent conditions, and scope requiring further direction before pricing was delivered.
Problem
CCFE provides additional commercial flooring estimating and pre-construction capacity when internal workload exceeds available estimating resources.
PRIMARY TAKEAWAY
Additional estimating capacity without lowering the standard of project review.
Problem
A multifamily flooring takeoff involving 433 pages of project documents and a requested 48-hour turnaround revealed a significant discrepancy. While an experienced estimator completed the takeoff, CCFE’s private AI platforms identified supplemental information suggesting that an entire second building might be missing from the architectural drawings.
DOCUMENTED FINDING
A potential second building involving five floors and 63 residential units required clarification of the intended project scope.
07Client Testimonials
“Ultimate professional from a knowledge and customer service perspective. His willingness to work with us to meet our needs has allowed our organization respond to our customers in a more efficient and timely manner.”
“I have worked with Jeff and Compass Commercial Estimating Services many times and find them to be thorough, accommodating, accurate, and technically innovative. Jeff himself is a man of incredible integrity and intelligence. His work ethic is off the charts and he and his team always get it done and done right! They are honest and accountable and offer world class service.
Having worked in the Commercial Flooring business for my entire career, I've seen a lot of estimating services. Several bad, a few good, and a handful great. Compass is exceptional and I strongly recommend Jeff and his team and would work with them any chance I got!”
“I have counted on Jeff and his estimating team for years. Jeff is professional in every way. His level of communication, accuracy, sense of urgency, flexibility and output is meticulous. I'm reliant on these critical attributes when calculating and submitting proposals to my clients.”
Put experienced commercial estimating and structured pre-construction intelligence behind your next project.