Please confirm the finish to the new window frames.
Tenders
Look beyond the lowest bid.
Issue a common brief. Compare what each price includes. Keep the questions, revisions and decision with the project.
- Document register
- Invitations
- RFIs
- Addenda
- Acknowledgements
- Submissions
- Weighted comparison
- Decision
A common starting point
Give every bidder the same starting point.
Conditions, price schedule and current documents in one register. Invited contractors find the revisions and submission requirements in their portal.
- Bidders see current and superseded revisions, and acknowledge the conditions and each issued addendum.
- Contractors raise RFIs in the portal and save a submission as a draft before completing it.
- A contractor sees only their own invitation and submission.
- Invited
- 2
- Submissions
- 2
- RFIs
- 2
- Addenda
- 1
- Status
- Open
- Contract type
- Lump sum
- Closing date
- 28 September 2026 · 17:00
- Contact
- Alex Morgan
- Scope
- Alterations, coordinated structure, terrace threshold and durable interior finishes.
Two invited contractors, two submissions and an issued addendum, in one place.
- Status
- Open
- Contract type
- Lump sum
- Closing date
- 28 September 2026 · 17:00
- Contact
- Alex Morgan
- Scope
- Alterations, coordinated structure, terrace threshold and durable interior finishes.
- Documents
- Price the current issued drawing set.
- Scope
- Coordinated structure, terrace threshold and durable interior finishes.
- Submission
- Your firm’s price is private to your firm and the studio.
The invitation, contact and closing date, as one bidder sees them.
Questions and revisions
One numbered update. Every acknowledgement is recorded.
Gather RFIs and revisions into an addendum, review its PDF and issue it. See which contractors have acknowledged the change.
- Each response stays linked to the RFI it answers, and the RFI shows which addendum answered it.
- Duplicate questions can be linked, so one answer covers them.
The window-finish RFI, answered, with the question and the issued direction together.
- Status
- Final
- Description
- Window-frame finish and retained-tree coordination
- Issued by
- Alex Morgan
- Issued
- 4 September 2026
- Acknowledgement
- Recorded against each contractor
ADD-01, final, with its description, issuer and date.
The comparison
Compare the scope, as well as the price.
Compare submitted schedules side by side. Add allowances without losing the original bid, score weighted criteria and keep the decision on record.
| Schedule item | Buildcraft | Oakline Construction |
|---|---|---|
| Preliminaries | $38,000 | $38,000 |
| Structure and envelope | $280,000 | $294,000 |
| Interiors and finishes | $100,000 | $100,000 |
| Submitted total | $418,000 | $432,000 |
Structure and envelope: $280,000 against $294,000, visible at a glance.
| Schedule item | Buildcraft | Oakline Construction |
|---|---|---|
| Interiors and finishes | $108,000Original $100,000 + $8,000 insect-screen allowance | $100,000 |
| Comparison total | $426,000 | $432,000 |
An $8,000 insect-screen allowance added for comparison; the submitted $100,000 remains shown.
| Criterion | Weight | Buildcraft | Oakline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | 60% | 88 / 100 | 82 / 100 |
| Programme | 25% | 82 / 100 | 88 / 100 |
| Relevant experience | 15% | 90 / 100 | 85 / 100 |
| Weighted score | 100% | 86.8 | 83.9 |
Price 60%, programme 25%, experience 15%: scores of 86.8 and 83.9 from the studio’s own marks.
- Draft and withdrawn bids stay out of the submitted comparison.
- Programme, commitments and qualifications sit beside the totals, not in a separate email.
- Client Owners can be given a read-only view of the tender’s activity through their portal.
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