Price It Right

Know what you are signing
before the price is locked.

A bid package can look complete and still carry scope you have not priced, qualifications that conflict, and requirements buried in hundreds of pages.

See the Proof
$6.48M to $8.25M

Three bids on the same public package.

DFW Data Center 1, bid March 19, 2026. Part of a spread like that is how each bidder read scope and risk.

Source: DFW Data Center 1Public bid package

The package

One real bid package,
read in full.

22 documents and 803 pages, with the terms that carry money pulled out and cited.

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How it happens

The mistake didn't happen in the field. It happened months earlier.

  1. 01
    The package

    A supplementary condition quietly moved a testing and temporary-services requirement onto the contractor.

  2. 02
    The estimate

    The team priced what was obvious. Nobody carried that clause into the number, and nobody excluded it.

  3. 03
    Months later

    The owner pointed back to the contract. The work got done, at real cost, with almost no argument left.

In the ledger

Review each item
with full context.

The requirement, its commercial meaning, what would prove it and the exact clause, in one review flow.

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What comes back

A working review, not another hundred-page summary.

What matters, where it came from and what still needs a decision, in a form your estimating team can use before bid day.

  • Requirement matrix: every material commitment, tied to source
  • Risk register: scope gaps, conflicting requirements and exposure
  • Amendments and defects that alter the standard terms
  • Requirements naming no party, so nothing is accepted by default
Continue the commercial lifecycle
Catch the change before you sign it.

What the supplementary conditions replaced, side by side.

Amendment Review
Where the package rewrote the contract.

Amendments, conflicts and documents the package never sent.

Conflicts & Baseline Defects
Every clock known before it starts.

Notice triggers and windows as your package writes them.

Notice Deadlines
FAQ

Common questions

What does a pre-award commercial review return?

A requirement matrix tied to source, a register of scope gaps and conflicting requirements, the amendments that alter the standard terms, and the requirements that name no party.

Why do bids on the same package differ so much?

Partly because each bidder reads scope and risk differently. On one public package bid in March 2026, three bids ranged from $6.48M to $8.25M.

When should a pre-award review happen?

Before the number is locked, while there is still time to price, qualify or carry each risk knowingly.

Get started

Bring the package
you are pricing now.

Scope and fee agreed up front. Findings in two weeks. NDA first.

No implementation. Start with the records you already have.