Your project manager shouldn’t be spending hours chasing spec sheets and assembling submittal packages. Capital Electric turns the product data already tied to your quote into a clean, organized submittal package, helping your team spend less time on paperwork and more time moving projects forward.
Stop wasting time on submittal packs
Most distributors give you a quote and leave the submittal work to your team. Capital Electric keeps going. Once the job moves forward, we use the product data already tied to your quote to create a clean submittal package, saving your project manager hours of manual work.
Key takeaways
- Stop making PMs chase paperwork your distributor already has. Capital Electric helps reduce the time spent pulling spec sheets, organizing PDFs and building submittal packages from scratch.
- Choose the distributor who saves your team time. When material pricing is close, process support can matter more than a small difference on the quote.
- Keep PMs focused on revenue-producing work. A few hours saved on submittals matter when project managers are responsible for keeping millions in annual work moving.
The quote shouldn’t be where the work ends for your distributor
A bill of materials comes in. The distributor prices it. Lead times get checked. Alternates get noted. The quote goes out.
Then the job moves forward and a new pile of work lands on the project manager’s desk.
Now someone has to pull the spec sheets. Match them to the line items. Organize the PDFs. Build the submittal package. Get it ready for the general contractor or consultant to review.
That’s the part most distributors leave behind.
At Capital Electric, we build the submittal pack for you.
Your project manager’s time is worth more than this
Building a submittal package might only take a couple hours.
But those aren’t throwaway hours.
A typical project manager in the electrical or low-voltage market may be responsible for managing and creating millions of dollars in revenue each year. So every hour spent chasing spec sheets is an hour not spent moving work forward.
Not reviewing another bid.
Not clearing up a field issue.
Not coordinating labor.
Not following up on a customer.
Not helping the next job get across the line.
That’s a real cost that adds up in potentially missed opportunities.
Saving two hours of admin time is useful. Giving those hours back to the project manager who’s responsible for revenue-producing work is where the value really shows up.
Open secret: Distributors already have the product data
That’s why the current way makes so little sense.
By the time someone creates your quote, the product data is already tied to the line items. We have the parts, quantities, notes, alternates and documentation connected to the job.
So when the project moves forward, your team shouldn’t have to rebuild that information from scratch.
Solution: Capital Electric uses the data already tied to your quote to create the submittal package for you.
That means less time hunting down dozens of spec sheets, less time organizing PDFs and less manual work for the person who probably has ten better things to do.
How it works
You send Capital Electric a bill of materials with the parts, quantities, pricing needs and lead-time questions for the project.
We process the request and create the sales quote.
When a project moves forward with Capital Electric, we provide the submittal package for your team to submit to the general contractor or consultant. That package helps confirm the materials are compliant with the project specifications before contracts are executed.
Just as important, the package is organized in Division 27 format, with products grouped the way contractors, consultants and reviewers expect to see them. That makes the submittal easier to review, easier to submit and easier to move through approval.
Simple process. Real time saved.
When pricing is close, process matters
Material costs are significant. They always will be.
But the difference between one distributor’s quote and another can be marginal at best. That is why the value conversation has to go beyond the material number.
- Who helps your team move faster?
- Who reduces the manual work after the quote is accepted?
- Who gives your project manager time back instead of adding another task?
That’s where Capital Electric’s submittal package process matters.
We’re not just quoting the bill of materials and disappearing. We’re helping remove a time-consuming step from your team’s plate so your PMs can stay focused on higher-value work.
Let Capital Electric take the submittal work off your plate
A lot of distributors can quote material. Capital Electric keeps going.
Send us the bill of materials. We’ll quote it. When the job moves forward, we’ll provide the submittal package your team needs for review, taking it off your plate entirely.
Less paperwork. Less duplicated effort. More time for the work that actually matters.
Give us a call at (262)788-9700 or shoot us an email at sales@capital-electric.com
