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Free Tender Pricing & Bid Calculator

Build the Bid from Cost, Risk and Profit Before You Submit the Price.

For contractors, suppliers and service providers that need to combine direct costs, overhead, contingency, commercial risk, taxes and target profit into a defensible tender price.

Use tender-specific costs and verify all tax, levy, bond and contractual requirements before submission.

ContractorsBuild works and project bids from full delivery cost.
SuppliersPrice supply tenders with logistics, overhead and commercial cost included.
Service ProvidersBuild contract fees from labour, support cost, risk and profit.
Bid TeamsStress-test price reductions before commercial submission.

A complete bid-pricing desk

From Direct Cost to Final Submitted Price.

Full Bid Price

Direct cost, preliminaries, overhead, contingency, finance cost, profit, discount and tax.

Direct Cost Build-Up

Create quantity and unit-cost lines for goods, labour, plant, logistics and services.

Overhead & Preliminaries

Recover mobilisation, site support, company overhead, supervision, HSE and QA.

Contingency & Risk

Price escalation, scope, delay, FX and supply-chain uncertainty separately from profit.

Tax / Levy Add-On

Use a user-defined percentage or fixed statutory charge without hard-coding one jurisdiction.

Markup & Margin

Compare markup on cost with target profit margin on the bid price.

Discount Check

See remaining profit, margin, minimum acceptable price and maximum safe discount.

Bid Scenario

Stress-test a possible cost overrun together with competitive price pressure.

Bid Summary

Generate an internal one-page bid-pricing summary for management review.

Astute Tender Pricing & Bid Calculator

Build the Bid from Cost, Risk and Profit Before You Submit the Price.

Built for contractors, suppliers and service providers. Combine direct costs, preliminaries, overhead, contingency, finance cost, taxes and target profit into a clear tender price.

Current tender / bid

Untitled Tender

Set the tender, client, currency and bid type once.

Complete tender pricing

Build the full bid price from the bottom up.

Enter the direct cost of delivering the contract, then add overhead, preliminaries, contingency, finance cost, taxes or levies and your target profit.

Direct contract cost

Project overhead, preliminaries & commercial risk

Profit & statutory add-ons

Direct cost build-up

Build direct delivery cost line by line.

Use this for materials, labour, equipment, services, logistics, subcontractors and any cost that exists because the contract is being delivered.

Direct cost lines

Add a description, quantity and unit cost.

Overhead & preliminaries

Do not let indirect contract costs disappear from the bid.

Contingency & bid risk

Quantify the allowance for uncertainty instead of hiding it inside profit.

Tax / levy add-on

Add a user-defined statutory rate without hard-coding a jurisdiction.

Enter only taxes or levies that should be added to the bid price. Verify the correct treatment for the specific contract and jurisdiction before submission.

Markup & margin

See why markup and profit margin produce different bid prices.

Commercial discount check

Know what happens to profit before agreeing to a price reduction.

Bid scenario comparison

Compare a base bid with cost escalation and competitive price pressure.

Bid pricing summary

Create a clean internal bid-pricing summary.

The PDF is designed for internal review and approval. It shows the key commercial build-up so management can see how the submitted price was formed.

Bidder

Tender

Why bid discipline matters

Winning the Tender Is Not Enough if the Contract Loses Money.

A low bid can win a contract and still create a commercial problem if mobilisation, overhead, finance cost, delay risk or post-award price pressure were not properly priced.

The calculator keeps direct cost, overhead, contingency and profit visible as separate layers so management can see what is being sacrificed when the final price is reduced.