Tender Pricing & Levelling
The cheapest tender and the lowest price are rarely the same thing.
Two sheets for one job: a pricing schedule issued with the enquiry so every tenderer prices the same items in the same shape, and a levelling sheet that normalises the returns to the same scope before anything is compared. Without the first the levelling is guesswork; without the second the lowest number wins by being the one with the most left out of it.
What you get
How it works
Issued with the enquiry
Every line priced or marked zero with a comment, because a blank is read as an omission and levelled as one. The tenderer's declaration captures programme, qualifications and exclusions in writing at tender stage.
Levelled before compared
Your estimate beside up to four tenderers, each with the basis or qualification behind its number, adjusted item by item to the same scope, then the levelled total, the difference from lowest and the rank.
Beyond price
Programme, resources, attitude and the rest get recorded before the recommendation rather than after it, so the decision reads as a decision and not a justification.
An Excel template with no macros. Only the yellow cells can be edited, the Guide tab explains every step, and it prints on A4. Your contract's terms come first.
Related paid help
For enquiries assembled and returned tenders levelled for you, see the Tender Levelling & Award Recommendation service.