Project & Sales Tools for Smarter Industrial Growth

Helping industrial firms sharpen bids, streamline project delivery, and elevate performance through tailored tools and strategic process design.

What are Smarter Tools?

We develop tailored smart tools and systems for tendering, project delivery, cost estimation, and workflow optimisation. A solid foundation of tools for estimating, cost control and delivery is essential. Our mission is to simplify complexity and empower engineers with tools that save time, reduce risk, and improve outcomes.

Why It Matters for Your Organisation

  1. Create a starting point for continuous development as you grow.

  2. Provide a consistent automated means of undertaking key tasks and workflows.

  3. Joint up thinking between the sales and delivery teams to estimate and track costs to use to deliver better margins.

  4. Build internal capability, knowledge base and improve transparency.

Sales & Tendering Optimisation Services

We offer flexible support based upon your specific needs to bring clarity and structure to your operations.

Bid Management

  • Consistent Consistent RFQ (Request for Quotation) to submission workflows and documentation.

Cost Estimation

  • Automated tools to produce cost estimates ranging from full scale turnkey capital projects, O&M (Operational & Maintenance) supply only to consulting services.

  • Commercial modelling tools to show payback and what if scenarios for changing paraeters such as electricity or gas prices.

  • Automated tools to calculate approximate project costs from historical data utilising linear regression where a number of inputs such as flow and load have a correlated impact upon costs.

  • Clear defined approach to the commercial estimation of risk items.

Project Delivery Optimisation Services

Project Management Tools

  • Development of workflows and standard documentation for projects from sale to completion.

  • Development of a project management schedule to keep track of deliverable status, cost performance and internal governance.

Cost Control

  • The building of largely automated tools to control costs of live projects. This includes a summary of forecasted costs, actual costs to date, contract variations, to produce a projected turnout cost that is compared to the sale baseline value. This allows a flywheel to be initiated to further improve performance.

Quality Assurance, Procurement, Construction & Commisisoning

  • The production of specifications and necessary tools to manage the parts of a project across the whole delivery process.

Department Maturity Model

  • The creation of a maturity model for your delivery or sales department to benchmark your current capability against a number of areas and map them to where you want to be. This encourages longer term thinking to understand where the improvements are needed and develop an action plan to get there.

Business Development

  • Market research, commercial and technical evaluation of new applications of current technology.

Our Approach to Working With You

Our approach is to work collaboratively with your team to create & implement best practices within your project tendering & delivery business.

  • Stage 1 - Explore Business Needs

    The process begins by understanding the particular requirements and challenges that your business currently has or may have in the future. This is both a reflective exercise and also seeks to understand future business requirements. Maybe you are thinking of implementing a new business service, are upscaling your business and want more mature business processes in place or are experiencing repeat errors in project delivery.

  • Stage 2 - Review of Existing Tools and Procedures

    Once the business requirements and objectives have been developed, a systematic review of existing tools can be undertaken. This will often involve feedback from team members using them to understand frustrations and create a wish list of further functionality to add.

  • Stage 3 - Carry Out a Gap Analysis

    The next phase involves the creation of a summary of findings from the review of existing tools, feedback from team members and understanding future requirements. Recommendations are made for future development and are prioritised against potential value added and relative effort required.

  • Stage 4 - Create and Rollout New Tools

    Once priorities are established, a new set of tools can be produced along with necessary training and procedures.

Why Work With Us?

We combine over 20 years of experience in the municipal and industrial water industry including clients, consultants and technology providers. Covering all project phases form technical sales to delivery and beneficial use of operation. We understand the challenges faced by you and your business and that a solid foundation of tools and workflows helps share knowledge amongst teams and build for the future.

Are you scaling up, standardising processes, wanting consistent results or wanting to transfer knowledge of processes to your team?

Promethean Engineering can help.

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