ROI calculator

Cost of one DPP correction cycle

Every resubmittal round at DPP costs your firm real money: your hours to draft the response, the client's time, and the schedule delay. Enter your project parameters to see how a $199 pre-check stacks up.

Project construction value

Used for context only — not in savings calculation.

Your billing rate ($/hr)

Your internal billing rate or principal hourly rate.

Expected DPP correction cycles

DPP residential median is 2–3 rounds. Simple additions average 1–1.5.

Hours spent per correction cycle

Include: reviewing comments, updating drawings, drafting response letter.

Your numbers

Cost per cycle

$2,100

12 hrs × $175/hr

Cycles avoided

1.75

Conservative: pre-check eliminates nearly all expected rounds

Weeks saved

At ~4 weeks per correction cycle at DPP

Cost of cycles avoided

$3,675

Pre-check cost

$199

Net savings

+$3,476

1,747% ROI — for every dollar spent on a pre-check, your firm avoids $18 in rework.

Methodology:Savings represent the cost of DPP correction cycles a pre-check is expected to eliminate. Pre-check is assumed to eliminate all projected cycles except 0.25 rounds (to account for project-specific corrections outside the scope of a document review). Schedule delay cost (client carrying costs, contractor delay claims) is not included — only your firm's time.

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