Tender pricing desk
We take off your hands: splitting tenders into packages, sending enquiries, chasing and comparing quotes and checking the pricing workbook.
You get: trade packages ready for enquiry, quote coverage by trade, side-by-side quote comparisons and a checked pricing workbook, for your estimators to decide.
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The problem
Our estimators spend the tender period measuring and chasing prices, then settle the bid in a rush the night before.
What is in this package
- Search the company's past tenders and job costs for comparable rates and prices
- Split a tender into trade packages ready for enquiries
- Summarise a tender pack before pricing starts
- Compare subcontractor quotes against the tender scope
- Check every scope item is covered by exactly one trade package
- Check the tender pricing workbook for errors before submission
- Chase subcontractor quotes and show quote coverage by trade
- Trade package enquiry to priced tenderWhole process
- Compare tender drawing revisions and list changes that affect price
- Check prelims against the packages for items priced twice or missed
- Read returned quotes from emails and PDFs into one standard format
- Draft the qualifications and exclusions schedule for a tender
- Turn schedules on drawings and specs into spreadsheets ready to price
- Raise tender queries, track addenda and show who needs to reprice
- Suggest which subcontractors and suppliers to invite for each trade package
- Benchmark a tender price against past jobs and elemental rates
- Forecast the cash flow of a tender from its price, programme and payment terms
- Prepare the tender adjudication pack so directors can settle the price
- Build a priced risk and opportunity register for each tender
- Turn the prelims and employer's requirements into a pricing checklist
- Set price escalation allowances for each package from index forecasts
- Manage tender queries and track the answers against the deadline
- Draft a tender programme from the scope and your past production rates
- Set tender contingency at a confidence level you choose
14 more parts, which a call confirms.
We price a whole package as one build (our rule). A call confirms it.
What it needs to work
- Tender documents in document software
- Supply chain list by trade
- The company's pricing workbook
If those aren’t in place yet, you’ll hear that before anything gets built.
Who it’s for
- Main contractors
What would this cost for your team?
Answer questions about your company and how this work runs today. You see an indicative estimate of the hours back, what that time is worth and the price when you send your details.
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