Price the bid once, defend it, and know your points
Bills of quantities are read from the buyer’s Excel, Word, PDF or a photo and checked line by line. Prices come from your rate card at the closing date, the version you submit is locked and fingerprinted, and the PPPFA formula shows the price points — and how high you can price for the points you need.
Who uses it
- Estimator
- Quantity surveyor
- Bid manager
- Director
What it does
- BOQ import from Excel, Word tables, PDF, CSV, text or a photo; quantity × rate checked against the stated amount; nothing applied until a person previews it.
- Lines at cost plus markup, or labour at your charge-out rate card as at the closing date.
- Contingency, VAT and the total; a locked version stored with its fingerprint, reopened only with a reason.
- The buyer’s pricing schedule as PDF, Word or Excel with live formulas, and an internal build-up marked not for submission.
- PPPFA price points for 80/20 and 90/10, and the reverse: the highest price for the points you need.
- A commercial quotation with milestones, retention, escalation and validity.
How it works
- Import the BOQ.
- Price it at your rate card.
- Check the points.
- Lock the version you submit.
The controls that protect it
- A labour line with no rate on the card blocks the lock.
- AI proposals for the budget never set a price: costs come from your rate card.
What it does not do (yet)
- A B-BBEE level is not converted into specific-goal points: those are entered from the tender document.
