Your figures
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How this is calculated
The cost nobody quotes you
A consultant's fee is the visible number, and it is not the whole number. A consultant cannot find your meter readings, chase your site managers or explain your own operations to you — that work stays with your team either way, and on a first cycle it is substantial.
This model prices it. It also assumes a platform does not eliminate that work, only reduces it, because claiming otherwise would be dishonest: structured collection makes the work faster and repeatable, it does not make it disappear.
Assurance fees are excluded from both sides, because they are driven almost entirely by how traceable your evidence is rather than by which route produced it.
Questions about this tool
Are the default day rates realistic?
They are a reasonable mid-market Lagos range, and they are visible and editable precisely because your own quotes are better data than our defaults. If you have a proposal in hand, enter its numbers — the model is far more useful populated with real figures.
Why does the model charge for our own team's time?
Because it is a real cost that consultant proposals never quote. Nobody outside your company can find your meter readings, chase your site managers or explain your own operations. That work stays with your team on either route, and in a first cycle it is substantial.
Does software eliminate the internal effort?
No, and the model does not assume it does. Structured collection makes the work faster and repeatable — the second cycle costs a fraction of the first because the structure already exists. Claiming the work disappears would be dishonest, and you would discover it was untrue by month two.
Why are assurance fees excluded from both sides?
Because they are driven almost entirely by how traceable your evidence is, not by which route produced the report. Putting a fee on one side only would bias the comparison; guessing on both would add noise without adding information.