Cats™

Cats™ is a powerful estimating platform used across the construction, resources and services sectors. Using Cats, our clients build competitive tenders and add whole-of-life value throughout post-estimate forecasting and facilities management.

Meeting industry needs

Cats provides a secure database environment where all spreadsheets and every aspect of the estimate are developed inside the software, ensuring trusted information is always immediately available.

Cats enables estimating teams to work with consistent rates and costs and share real time analytics, data and insights across all lifecycle phases, from tender preparation to post-estimate forecasting and facilities management.

For estimating and business leaders, Cats provides a powerful ‘Top Sheet’ view of each estimate, with access to drill into the detail, improving strategic and operational oversight, influence, and decision making.

Application

With a history going back to the 1980’s when it was first developed by a civil engineer, Cats has consistently been a mainstay for estimating teams across Australasia.

Through regular redevelopments, Cats remains a market leader and is approaching industry standard status in Australia and New Zealand.

IDD Tech’s Cats product team is continuing to enhance its features to stay ahead of industry requirements. 

Product details

  • Full multi-user capability provides a single source of truth and equips 100s of estimators to create and modify tenders simultaneously
  • Supports the full tender process from schedules of quantities, to sub-contractor pricing, makeup of direct costs, overheads, markup, and final submission documents
  • Flexible modes for use across tendering, forecasting and Facilities Management
  • Measured quantities module for digital 2D take-off/BIM integration
  • Embodied carbon calculations help measure project footprint
  • Built by and for estimators with intuitive easy layout and navigation, supporting quick onboarding and adoption
  • Real-time access to plant, labour, materials, and subcontractor rates
  • Multiple users across sectors maintain consistency of rates and costs
  • Multiple viewing options including hierarchy grid layout
  • Modelling and optioneering choices allow multiple cashflow and escalation scenarios
  • Superior cost coding, reporting functions, and analysis
  • Superior access security and auditing, auto backups and archiving
  • Powerful reporting menu, supported by database back end, allows interrogation by Power BI and similar tools
  • Centrally hosted by client with powerful multi-level security. Only the System Administrator user can export Cats data for sharing
  • Full multi-user capability, locks out one user when two users attempt to edit the same item in a module
  • 9-levels of complex resource build-up providing great flexibility
  • Intelligent dynamic linking to MS Excel
  • Customisable at server, register, tender and user levels
  • Sub-contract quote comparison
  • Resource analysis and usage histograms
  • Cells within a spreadsheet may also be linked to quantities within a tender
  • Customisable, multiple views of all screens
  • Superior markup process for unbalancing
  • Truck haul cycle simulation with productivity and fuel usage
  • Complete and up-to-date Plant Library
  • Plant rate calculation (including all ownership and operating costs)
  • Multi currencies and analysis of exchange rates

“Cats is a true multiuser estimating system that allows real time analytics of live tenders. The pragmatic and solid security settings are industry leading. They are designed for what Estimating Managers want.”

Richard Scott, Group General Manager, John Holland Group.

Key sectors using Cats

Key sectors using Cats

  • Infrastructure
  • Transport – Road and rail
  • Civil and building
  • Utilities
  • Services and facilities management
  • Mining
  • Oil and gas
Key roles using Cats

Key roles using Cats

  • Estimating
  • Project Management
  • Finance and Commercial Management
  • Business Development and Sales
  • Site Management
  • Engineering and Design Management
  • Quantity Surveying

Tailored pricing and service level options

We look forward to tailoring a product pricing strategy to suit your requirements.

  • No implementation fee or minimum spend
  • Pricing is based on users per month
  • Enterprise level pricing is available

 

Set up, security and support

IDD Tech delivers an individualised service, meeting client needs at every step from product selection or development, installation, onboarding, training and ongoing innovation.

Cats is provided ready to be immediately integrated into the client environment. Cats is installed by the client, typically within an hour, supported by remote direction and assistance from IDD Tech where required. IDD Tech can also meet client requirements for other hosting options. 

Seamless integration and information security are backed by IDD Tech’s ISO 27001 accredited product development environment. IDD Tech has no access to the client’s product installation or estimate data at any stage. Cats’ highly customisable access levels further equip clients to tightly manage data security on premises.

Our expert Cats support team provides fast, reliable enquiry and incident response. Our long-term product specialists, led by estimators with more than 20 years’ Cats experience, cut through quickly with answers and assistance, enabling clients to move forward quickly with greater product knowledge.

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We look forward to tailoring a product implementation and pricing strategy to suit your requirements.

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