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Discover the latest construction projects in any sector or region.
Maximising Margins for Main Contractors
Main Contractors get seamless data visualisations of win rate analysis, average project timings, industry relationships and more powered by our construction project data intelligence.
Over 3,000 companies win more business with Barbour ABI
Over 3,000 companies win more business with Barbour ABI
Planning smarter with Barbour ABI
Main contractors have been using Barbour ABI for decades to minimise guesswork, maximise their margins, and bid better.
Our comprehensive construction project planning data transforms into bespoke dashboards and enhanced intelligence for the main contractors needing to turn up the dial.
With Barbour ABI construction intelligence contractors get access to:
- Detailed competitor activity
- Bid win/loss rates
- Pipeline opportunities
- And so much more
How we support you
1-2-1 Support
Our leading team of experts are with you from day one. Get catered support throughout your subscription.
Competitor Insight
Understand industry relationships as well as competitor win/loss rates to inform your bidding strategy.
Data Visualisations
Get access to our project leads platform and our modular dashboards to visualise your full view of your landscape.
Forecast Pipeline
Understand projects that are happening in your target regions and sectors to gauge your pipeline.
Barbour ABI Products for Main Contractors
Consultancy & Bespoke Research
We work with all sectors and business roles in the construction industry to build bespoke consultancy packages to inform strategy and gain unique insights. Get access to market sizing, pricing research, attitudinal research and more.
Built Environment Analytics
Bespoke dashboards designed to showcase our vast built environment intelligence so you can track competition, build strategy, and master your market. Go from the aggregated trends to the individual projects in the click of a button.
Construction Project Leads
Construction project leads you can actually use to win more work, build custom league tables, and understand industry relationships. Get access to GDPR compliant contacts and start having the right conversations at the right time.
Data visualisation at your fingertips
Fuelled by our construction project intelligence, our Analytics dashboards built with Microsoft Power BI produce simple, easy-to-use data visualisation with even the biggest datasets.
You ask for it, we build it. Capabilities are as follows but not limited to:
- Pipeline
- Win Rates
- League Tables
- Relationship Data
Drill down through the macro into the micro by diving deeper into individual projects on our Project Leads Platform. Check out more features below. ⬇️
Predict Your Pipelines
Analyse yours and other major contractors’ construction pipelines to understand what sectors, regions and subsectors companies work in.
Get access to visualisations that let you see gaps in future work and see which areas will be over or undersaturated.
Drill from the macro to the micro and view the individual projects via table or map.
Spot gaps, reduce risk, and make data-driven decisions for smarter business growth.
See where your competitors are winning and losing
Reveal your competitor’s historical wins and losses through our custom-built Analytics dashboards to fuel your bidding strategies.
Simply filter through some of the following to view the markets you’re looking to dominate:
- Date
- Region
- Sector
- Contract stage
- Value bands
- And more
Get an instant snapshot view of how many projects your competitors are winning or losing. Go one step further and drill down through each contractor’s history by viewing the exact projects they previously bid on, and view these projects in full on our project leads platform.
Discover who's working with who
Do you know which main contractors your target clients are working with?
Can you get a detailed view of projects your competitors have won? Our Relationships historical data feature gives you instant access to that information so you can build a better bidding strategy, and know when to foster connections.
The Barbour ABI Relationships feature is the first and only of it’s kind in the industry. We track and record thousands of companies at your fingertips via our project leads platform and bespoke dashboards.
View the dashboards today
See how our bespoke Analytics dashboards leads contractors to data-driven decisions.
See how the industry succeeds with Barbour ABI
Poly-Pac has seen turnover treble since working with Barbour ABI
Poly-Pac, a polycarbonate systems supplier, partnered with Barbour ABI to expand in the UK by targeting key decision-makers.
Using the platform, they identified opportunities, engaged with architects and contractors, and delivered CPD presentations.
In two years, their turnover tripled, their specification network grew tenfold, and they presented CPDs to over 300 professionals.
Barbour ABI’s support and market insights have been crucial to their success, helping them streamline outreach and build industry relationships. Poly-Pac credits the partnership for aligning with their growth goals and professional standards.
How British Polythene Ltd built a winning strategy with Barbour ABI
British Polythene Limited, a Berry Global company, specializes in high-performance films and laminates.
Their biggest challenge as a UK manufacturer is tracking product specifications throughout construction. For 13 years, Barbour ABI has provided the solution, helping them monitor specifications from tender to contract and target new projects.
Using Barbour ABI’s data, they’ve enhanced marketing efforts, built stronger relationships with contractors, and improved specification success rates.
After trialling a competitor’s platform, they found outdated data, poor service, and hidden contract clauses. They continue to rely on Barbour ABI’s superior accuracy, fast updates, and collaborative support.
Larsen Building Products Wins More Contracts with Barbour ABI
Larsen Building Products, a supplier of cementitious mortars and tiling products, has used Barbour ABI for 15 years to track projects early and secure key contracts. Previously, they relied on manual searches and cold calls to find leads.
Now, the platform helps them identify relevant projects, connect with decision-makers, and track opportunities through their CRM.
Real-time notifications keep them ahead of competitors, ensuring they reach the right people at the right time. Larsen credits Barbour ABI for streamlining their process, enhancing efficiency, and giving them a strategic edge in winning new business.
Hanson found huge opportunities they didn’t know existed
Barbour ABI is the entity that provides Hanson with the essential information they need and is at the heart of everything they do.
Prior to using Barbour ABI, the challenges Hanson faced were doing business in a non-digital world and although postal information was useful, it wasn’t as easy to filter through and be highly targeted.
The Barbour ABI platform has revolutionised this, as Hanson are now able to focus on the right opportunities efficiently using the granular search functionality.
“We required a bespoke service tailored to our specific requirements from a regional level through to the executive board.
We were impressed with Barbour ABI’s expert support.”
“It’s not often that customer service exceeds expectation however, Barbour ABI have committed their time, patience and experience to demonstrate how the platform provides invaluable information that has helped our business continue to grow.”
FAQs
Yes. Our Project Leads Platform and Analytics Bespoke Dashboards can give you the insights you need to view your competition’s bidding history, depending on how you’d like to visualise our data.
The platform provides a history of bidders on every project. You can analyse and understand competitor’s win:loss ratio by viewing each project. Whereas our dashboards show an aggregated view of each of your competitors’ win:loss ratio. From the dashboards, you can then drill down to each individual project on the platform to view more details.
Yes. Our Analytics product offers bespoke dashboards created through Power BI. Our expert team of data analysts and experts meet with you to understand what you need to succeed, and we build it for you.
Both the Analytics Dashboards and Project Leads Platform provide unique solutions for main contractors.
Dashboards can show you your entire construction landscape as well as a birds-eye-view into competitor activity. Contractors work with us to explain what they want to see and our team of experts build dashboards that are interactive and easy to use.
Our Project Leads Platform showcases projects in pre-planning and allows you to set up saved searches so you can keep an eye on what’s coming next. Set alerts on the platform to notify you as soon as a project is updated so you can be the most up to date in the industry.
Yes. Thanks to our extensive Built Environment data warehouse, clients can select from a wide range of data including ,but not limited to, market size, market bands, and more market detail. You tell us what you want to see and we build it for you.
We give our clients support from day one through a dedicated client service manager and free, unlimited training with our product experts.
Clients can reach out to us at any time and we’re there to help. We also give clients the ability to ask for more information on any project that we’re tracking and reporting. This level of service isn’t available anywhere else.
