Can someone check our tender price before we submit it?

A tender can be wrong in two ways, and the total only ever shows one of them. The number itself is the rarer problem; what the number quietly owns is where tenders actually lose money, and a pre-submission review works through that deliberately. Coverage first: every item the enquiry documents ask for should be either priced or expressly excluded, because anything that is neither becomes yours by silence the day the order is signed. Then the composition: rates read against the build-ups behind them, so a figure against the wrong unit or carried from a very different job gets caught while it is still a keystroke; preliminaries read as a priced list against the programme and site conditions, because a habit percentage does not know whether the job runs twelve weeks or thirty; and the arithmetic proven rather than assumed. Last, the qualifications: exclusions, assumptions and attendances drafted as one deliberate schedule that will survive a levelling meeting, rather than a pasted list that contradicts the enquiry. None of this needs the job re-measured. The quantities and price remain the tenderer's own; the review makes sure what goes in is complete, consistent and saying exactly what you intend, so the post-tender meeting holds no ambushes and a win is a number the job can be built for.

Take a subcontractor pricing a large ductwork package on a design and build job. Their rates were per square metre of developed surface, built up from workshop and site fixing costs; the buyer's pricing schedule, halfway down a long tab, listed several runs in linear metres. The tender total looked plausible and would have gone in. A pre-submission check caught the unit mismatch, plus an attendances section that made scaffolding the subcontractor's own where their price assumed it provided, and a commissioning requirement the documents put out of hours that the preliminaries carried at normal rates. The quantities and most rates never changed; the mismatched lines were repriced to the units asked for, the scaffold assumption became a stated exclusion, and the out-of-hours cost went in as a priced item. The tender went in a day later at a number the job could carry, and the levelling meeting had nothing to find.