Australia · builders and trades
Construction quote template
Free in Word, Excel or PDF. A building quote needs more than a price list: where the job is, what is and is not included, how long the price holds, and how the money and the changes will be handled.
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Construction quote
Site address, scope, line items with units, 10% GST added once on the total, and the deposit, progress payment, variation and exclusion terms. The Excel version does the sums.
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With the site address, your licence number, a unit on every line and how variations will be priced. Save it as a PDF or print it. Nothing is uploaded or kept.
Quote
Your business name
Prepared for
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Site
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Date
Valid until
| Description | Qty | Unit | Unit price | Amount |
|---|
Includes
Does not include
Deposit and payment
Variations
Acceptance
I accept this quote on the terms above.
Name
Signature
Date
A quote is not a tax invoice and must never be labelled one. When the work is done, the invoice generator builds a tax invoice and checks it against all eight requirements in section 29-70.
What goes on a building quote
- who you are: your name or trading name, your ABN, and your licence number if you hold one
- who it is for, and the site address — the job is somewhere, and the quote should say where
- the scope in plain words: what will be done, and roughly when
- the line items, with quantities and units, priced before GST
- the GST, and the total including it
- the date the price is valid until
- the deposit and any progress payments, and when each falls due
- how variations will be priced, and what the price does not include
No GST or tax law prescribes what a quote says, so none of that is a legal checklist; it is what lets a client say yes to a fixed set of work. A quote is also not a tax invoice — the quote template page covers that, and the difference between a quote and an estimate.
Residential work has its own rules
For building work on a home, each state’s home building laws set rules for the contract that follows a quote, including deposits and cooling-off. They differ from state to state and this page does not cover them — check your state’s building regulator before the client signs.
GST on a building quote
Building work by a business registered for GST is ordinarily a taxable supply, so the template prices each line before GST and adds 10% once on the subtotal — the same once-on-the-total rounding a tax invoice uses. Showing both totals saves the client working back from one. If you are not registered, and not required to be, delete the GST line: such a business has no GST to charge, and once the job is done and billed, a business client will need a tax invoice from a registered builder to claim the GST back.
Frequently asked questions
How long should a construction quote stay valid?
Should labour and materials be separate lines?
How do I deal with changes once the job has started?
Sources
The GST rate and the rounding are from the GST Act, sections 9-70 and 9-90, in C2026C00081 (Compilation No. 96); nothing else on this page is a legal requirement. The methodology page explains how this site verifies figures.