Construction takeoff services in Ontario
SharpBid measures quantities for Ontario subcontractors from Vancouver — all digital, all delivered to your bid deadline. The GTA is Canada's largest construction market, which means the most competition per bid and the least room for a quantity error to hide. From $450, next business day on single-trade sets, on time or 50% off.
Drawings link in.
Workbook comes back.
You send a drawings link — Dropbox, Drive, WeTransfer, a GC plan room login, whatever you already use. A fixed price and a guaranteed delivery date come back within 4 business hours. We measure in On-Screen Takeoff and Bluebeam Revu, and the Excel workbook plus colour-coded marked-up plans arrive by the date on the quote. Late means you pay half.
We work Pacific time and deliver to your deadline, which on an Ontario bid means the working day effectively gets longer. A set that lands here at 2 p.m. Eastern is arriving at 11 a.m. our time with a full day ahead of it, and a delivery promised for your morning is finished the evening before.
Building types
we see most in Ontario
Ontario's volume and its density both matter to a takeoff — the set types are familiar, but the margin for error on any one bid is thinner.
The Ontario Building Code
Ontario has its own building code rather than adopting the national model directly. For a takeoff, the practical consequence is the same everywhere: rated assemblies and separations get recorded against each partition or ceiling type, with the rating attached, so your qualification page can name exactly what you priced.
Six-storey wood-frame is permitted
Mid-rise wood-frame up to six storeys is permitted in Ontario, and it brings the same leverage it brings anywhere: heavy typical-floor repetition above a ground floor, an amenity level and any transfer level that all differ. Measure the typical floor properly once, extend it visibly, and measure the exceptions on their own.
Concrete residential and mixed-use towers
Concrete mid-rise and high-rise residential is a large share of GTA work. Typical-floor repetition, shaftwall at cores and service risers, and head-of-wall deflection against a slab that will move are the conditions that decide an interiors bid on these sets.
The largest construction market in Canada
The GTA being Canada's biggest market cuts both ways. There is more work to bid than any one estimator can price properly, and there are more bidders on each job — so the bid you rushed is competing against ones that weren't. Volume is exactly the problem outsourced takeoffs exist to solve, and it's worth reading the honest version of that trade-off in our guide on outsourcing versus hiring in-house.
Tenant improvements at pace
Dense partition type lists over small areas, plenty of bulkheads, open ceilings with sprayed exposed deck, and Level 5 finish in the spaces that get photographed. Fast programs with short bid windows, where the fixed four-hour quote turnaround matters as much as the takeoff itself.
Institutional and public work
Heavy rated assemblies, abuse- and impact-resistant board, backing schedules long enough to be their own takeoff, and specifications detailed enough that reading them properly is most of the job.
Cities we
work with
Toronto and the GTA are where most Ontario work originates — the largest concentration of residential, mixed-use and commercial volume in the country, and the deepest bidder pool on each job. Ottawa brings a different mix, with more institutional and public-sector work and specifications to match. Everywhere else in the province is handled identically: no offices, no travel, no regional pricing. The schedule on the takeoff pricing page is the schedule everywhere in Ontario.
Trades we take off
for Ontario subs
- Drywall & steel stud takeoffs
Shaftwall at concrete cores, head-of-wall deflection, and dense tenant improvement partition schedules.
- Acoustic ceiling (ACT) takeoffs
Tenant improvement ceilings with clouds over open plan, where the perimeter count dwarfs the field.
- Flooring takeoffs
Dense finish schedules on fast TI programs, with floor prep over existing slabs quantified rather than assumed.
- Painting takeoffs
Open-ceiling sprayed deck, dense door counts, and institutional CMU that needs block filler priced properly.
- Glazing takeoffs
Curtain wall measured elevation by elevation on towers, with spandrel reconciled against the glass schedule.
- Roofing & envelope takeoffs
Podium and amenity roofs over occupied space, with tapered layout and penetration counts taken seriously.
- Misc metals takeoffs
Repetitive stair and guard packages, hoistway steel, and embeds coordinated to the pour.
- Concrete & formwork takeoffs
Foundations, slab-on-grade and site concrete from $500; high-rise cast-in-place quoted per project.
- Framing takeoffs
Mid-rise wood-frame wall and sheathing areas by floor, with shear wall hardware at the full-breakdown tier.
Ontario takeoff FAQs
You're in Vancouver — how does the time difference work?
Do you know the Ontario Building Code?
Are quantities metric or imperial?
Do you work on CCDC contracts?
How do I send drawings from a plan room?
Can you keep up with GTA bid volume?
Is there an out-of-province surcharge?
Send the drawings.
Fixed quote in 4 hours.
Drop a link through the quote form or email info@sharpbid.ca. A fixed price and a guaranteed delivery date come back within 4 business hours.
Other provinces
…and anywhere else in Canada — everything is digital.