Priced from what your crews produce.

A cost ledger records what a job was billed. It cannot tell you why — whether the crew was quick and the scope grew, or the crew was slow and the scope held — so a rate drawn from it inherits every distortion of the job it came from. The rate that prices your next bid is built instead from the two things the record measures independently: the crew-hours verified on the work front, and the quantity measured installed in front of them.

Rates are re-based, not copied. A rate measured on a 14-month tower is escalated for time, re-based for region, and adjusted for the crew and the program length you are actually bidding. Each one arrives with the ± its own scatter earned and with the work-fronts it was measured on listed beside it. Where the measured evidence is thin, the rate reports the thinness instead of dressing a guess as a number.