Useful before calculation
Quote operations, not elapsed waiting time
LeadSync measures active work: preparing requests, chasing suppliers, consolidating responses, re-entering data and updating customers. Supplier response time is reported separately and never multiplied into labour cost.
Why education connectivity quotes need an operational lens
School and trust procurement cycles are unpredictable. Supplier response times vary, and bid windows are tight. MSP account executives often lose hours reformatting, revalidating and re-presenting quotes that may not convert. By tracking active staff minutes against a realistic target, you can identify where the process is supporting margin and where it is leaking capacity. This view does not replace commercial judgement; it adds a layer of operational evidence that finance and service-delivery leads can review to...
What the quote-operations model measures
The model focuses on active employee time—the minutes your team actually spends working on a connectivity quotation. UK statutory wage floor of £12.71 per hour provides a baseline labour cost. Supplier elapsed time is reported separately, so you can distinguish a slow carrier response from internal workload. A user-approved target active process time lets you compare actual performance against a service-led benchmark without exposing any supplier name or live quote result on this public page. The live supplier-bac...
Using the MSP connectivity quote calculator
Invite your commercial or operations lead to input the active staff minutes from a recent 1000Mbps education quote. The tool applies the hourly floor and displays the labour cost per quote request. You can then adjust the target active time to see potential efficiency gains. Because the calculation separates supplier elapsed time, your team can hold informed conversations with carriers without revealing internal cost structures. A saved quote scenario in your Edunet account includes the full supplier response and...
No double counting
Direct administration cost, addressable cost, recovered capacity, pipeline exposure and confirmed loss are separate. They are never added into one headline.