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Built for Security, AV, and Communications Systems

Low voltage systems require a different level of precision, flexibility, and technical understanding than traditional electrical work. Conest delivers specialized low voltage estimating and takeoff software designed to help contractors accurately bid security, access control, surveillance, AV, nurse-call, and fire alarm projects.

With IntelliBid in the cloud (CE Cloud), your team can efficiently manage complex low voltage estimates from anywhere while maintaining consistency, speed, and accuracy across every bid.

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Designed for Low Voltage Systems Estimating

Low voltage projects often involve rapidly changing technologies, specialized components, and unique installation requirements. IntelliBid is built to handle these challenges with ease.

With IntelliBid, you can:

  • Estimate security and card access, surveillance and CCTV, sound and public address, A/V, nurse-call, and communications systems
  • Price fire alarm installations, including cable and conduit assemblies
  • Use a robust database of low voltage materials and assemblies
  • Customize labor units based on installation type and difficulty
  • Account for integration with existing systems and infrastructure
  • Standardize estimating processes across multiple estimators

This ensures your estimates are accurate, scalable, and aligned with real-world installation conditions.

Bidding structured cabling, fiber, or voice/data drops? See datacom estimating software.

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IntelliBid in the Cloud (CE Cloud)

With IntelliBid on CE Cloud, your estimating team gains the flexibility to work from any location without sacrificing performance or security.

Cloud-Based Advantages

  • Access estimates from office, home, or jobsite
  • Collaborate in real time across teams and branches
  • Eliminate local server maintenance and IT overhead
  • Maintain a centralized database for consistent estimating

Enterprise-Level Security

CE Cloud protects your data with:

  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
  • Multi-layer firewalls and anti-DDoS protection
  • Secure data centers with controlled access
  • Continuous backups and system monitoring

For enterprise low voltage contractors, this ensures both accessibility and peace of mind. Learn more about cloud estimating software.

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Accurate Pricing for Low Voltage Projects

Stay competitive in a fast-moving market with optional integrated pricing tools:

  • NetPricer®
  • EPIC®
  • TRA-SER®

With up-to-date pricing information and vendor-specific customization, your low voltage estimates reflect current material costs, helping you win bids while protecting margins.

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Integrated Digital Takeoff with SureCount

Low voltage takeoff often involves large quantities of devices, cable runs, and repetitive layouts. Conest SureCount simplifies this process with powerful digital takeoff capabilities.

With SureCount, your team can:

  • Perform accurate on-screen takeoffs from digital plans
  • Use advanced symbol recognition to speed up counting
  • Apply multipliers for repeated layouts (e.g., offices, units, floors)
  • Measure cable runs and pathways with precision
  • Instantly transfer quantities into IntelliBid

This seamless integration reduces errors, eliminates duplicate work, and significantly speeds up the estimating process.

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Gain Insight with Conest Connect

Conest Connect provides powerful analytics and reporting tools that help you optimize your low voltage estimating performance.

With Connect, you can:

  • Track estimator performance and bid success rates
  • Analyze profitability across low voltage project types
  • Identify trends across security, AV, and communications work
  • Forecast labor and material needs across multiple jobs
  • Build custom dashboards tailored to your business

Because Connect is fully web-based, your leadership team can access real-time insights anytime, anywhere.

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Low Voltage Estimating Software: Common Questions

Low voltage estimating software is a tool contractors use to price security, access control, surveillance, AV, nurse-call, fire alarm, and communications projects. It combines a database of low voltage materials and assemblies with labor units that can be customized by installation type and difficulty, so estimators can produce accurate, consistent bids for complex low voltage systems.

IntelliBid estimates security and card access, surveillance and CCTV, sound and public address, A/V, nurse-call, fire alarm, and communications systems using a database of low voltage materials and assemblies. Estimates can also account for integration with existing systems and infrastructure. For structured cabling, fiber, and voice/data infrastructure, see datacom estimating software.

Low voltage projects involve rapidly changing technologies, specialized components, and unique installation requirements, so they need a different level of precision and flexibility than traditional electrical work. Labor units have to reflect the installation type and difficulty, and takeoff often involves large device quantities, long cable runs, and repetitive layouts.

Yes. SureCount performs on-screen takeoff from digital plans, uses symbol recognition to speed up counting, applies multipliers for repeated layouts such as offices, units, or floors, measures cable runs and pathways, and transfers quantities directly into IntelliBid.

Yes. With IntelliBid on CE Cloud, estimators can access estimates from the office, home, or jobsite, work across teams and branches, and eliminate local server maintenance. CE Cloud protects data with multi-factor authentication, multi-layer firewalls and anti-DDoS protection, secure data centers with controlled access, and continuous backups and system monitoring.

Yes. IntelliBid offers optional integrated pricing through NetPricer, EPIC, and TRA-SER, so low voltage estimates reflect current material costs and help protect margins.

Ready to Improve Your Low Voltage Estimating Process?

If you’re looking for low voltage estimating and takeoff software built specifically for modern contractors, Conest delivers the tools you need to succeed.

Request a demo today and see how IntelliBid in the cloud can transform your low voltage estimating workflow.

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Conest Software provides both on-premises and cloud-based software solutions. This versatility allows electrical, low voltage, datacom, and solar contractors to choose the deployment method that best suits their requirements, ensuring seamless integration with their existing infrastructure.

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Working with the electrical industry for over 30 years, Conest has established itself as the leading provider of low voltage estimating software. A commitment to innovation and staying ahead of industry trends makes Conest the most trusted choice for electrical estimating and takeoff solutions.

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