Decision Calculators

Service Contract vs Self-Maintain Calculator

Service Contract vs Self-Maintain Calculator takes the contract price and what it covers, your own PM hours and parts, your corrective event rate and cost, and the downtime hours each option leaves you with and returns the annual cost of the service contract against the annual cost of doing it yourself, the difference, and the contract price at which the answer flips. Contract total = the contract price + the downtime it still leaves you, priced at your downtime rate. Self-maintain total = PM labour × your burdened rate + PM parts + corrective events × (repair hours × rate + parts) + the downtime that leaves you, priced the same way. Break-Even Contract Price = the self-maintain total minus the contract's own downtime cost — the price at which the two are equal. Nothing is pre-filled with an outside figure — no contract price benchmark, no assumed response time, no vendor coverage claim. Every value on every sheet is one you entered or one computed from what you entered, against the As-of date you set on 1. Setup, never today's date.