Weekly pricing intelligence for electrical contractors

You price-check the parts you can. It's the 3,000 you can't that are costing you.

Send 12 months of purchase history. In one week you'll know what your pricing is costing you per year — priced against every major distributor in your region. Confidential, and no charge.

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"Supply Scope has helped my admin team tighten up our pricing, and my PMs turn those savings into extra margin."

Steve Wiscombe — owner/operator, electrical contractor

Ontario · this weekreal market spreads

Part	Median	Best	Spread
Breaker — 15A, 3 pole, bolt-on	$407.95	$369.19	10%
Teck connector — 1/2", stainless	$308.28	$271.96	12%
Enclosure — NEMA 4, 12, 16"	$189.91	$132.74	30%
Fuse — Class J time delay, 600A	$163.60	$144.54	12%
Armoured cable — Teck, 3/0 AWG 3C	$99.75	$92.50	7%

1,273 parts priced by 2+ vendorsmedian gap to best: 19.0%

The magnitude

It isn't that you don't check. It's that checking never finishes.

You've pushed back on wire. You've priced around on conduit. Every good operator does.

But an honest pass on a 3,000-part book against eight distributors takes the better part of a week. By then prices have moved, and you start again. That's not a diligence problem — it's three full-time people, doing nothing else.

So the fifty parts you carry in your head stay sharp, and the rest drifts. A multiplier moves half a point. An agreement lapses and nobody mentions it. Your rep isn't lying to you — they're just not volunteering the lines where you've become the branch's most profitable account.

Materials pricing tracked across distributors

So we do the checking. All of it, every week.

Every part you buy, against every major distributor in your region. It doesn't get bored, and it doesn't skip the categories you settled years ago — which is where the money tends to sit.

And it won't tell you to leave your distributor. There are only two ways to fix a price — get the distributor to cut their margin, or get the manufacturer to put an agreement behind it — and both of them keep the relationship you already have. See the full mechanism →

What it finds

Real findings, from real accounts.

Written by the analyst, sent to customers. Names removed — every number as reported.

Notice the last two: it reports its own unresolved items and blind spots, week after week, until they move. An analyst that only brings you wins isn't an analyst.

Win: an Alberta conduit gap closed from 26–30% down to 4%+$4,500/yr · one conversation, same supplier

A customer was paying 19% over the market average on armoured cable$22,808/yr · commodity, so it was pure distributor margin — negotiable today

Schneider NQ430L2 interior panel — week 18, still no movement$32,000/yr · manufacturer issue, not a branch decision

A distributor published no fuse prices at all this week, so a tracked item couldn't be checkedreported to the customer as a gap in our own coverage, not quietly skipped

Who actually runs this

Whether or not you have a supply chain manager.

Most contractors we talk to are in one of two situations. The product is the same either way — what changes is who's driving it.

If you have one

They stop spending their week gathering prices and start spending it negotiating. Everything they'd otherwise chase by phone — who's cheapest, what moved, which agreements lapsed, which supplier is drifting — is already sitting in the workspace on Monday morning.

They walk into a vendor review with the specific part numbers, your volumes, and a competing price from this week. That's a different conversation than the one they're having now.

If you don't

Then we're it. The analyst does the watching, decides what's worth your attention, and tells you plainly what to do — this supplier is 19% over on armoured cable, it's pure margin, ask them to fix it. Not a dashboard to interpret. A short list of moves, with the dollar figure attached.

It chases its own recommendations too, so nothing quietly dies. You get the function without the headcount — which for most shops under $10M is the difference between doing this and not doing it at all.

Open items · this weekmanaged workspace

What we found	Worth	Status
Armoured cable, 19% over market average	$22,808/yr	Week 3 · raised
Alberta conduit gap, 26–30% over	$4,500/yr	Closed to 4%
Interior panel, manufacturer agreement missing	$32,000/yr	Week 18 · escalate
Enclosures, 160–305% over market minimum	under review	Rep contacted

nothing closes itselfre-measured every Monday

Illustrative — real accounts show your own items, with supplier names.

The audit

One file in. Five pages back.

Your annualized gap, the categories it's hiding in, and the fifty parts that account for most of it.

Confidential — the report is yours, privately, and there's no call required to get it. If there's nothing worth chasing in your book, we'll tell you that too.

Send the file

Any purchase export, whatever format it comes out in.

We match it

Your parts against our full catalog and live regional pricing.

You get the number

What the gap is, and exactly where it's hiding.

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One week turnaround. Any file format. Confidential.

We'll reply by the next business day with where to send your purchase history — CSV, Excel or PDF, whatever your system exports.