Obviously we need to understand how you’re pricing your bid. So we’d like you to cost it using your projections for the components in order to demonstrate how you arrive at the value of your offer.
Please therefore enter the values of the components in your bid within the spaces below. You need not enter a value where you feel any component is irrelevant. Therefore, if you already have the product we need, you might return a £0K value against the costs of ‘Research and development’. Likewise, where your existing workplace is already adequate to the task in hand, you would be expected to return a £0K value against ‘Cost of construction’.
The costs you list should be your best estimate where resources are also simultaneously being used to deliver other contracts, quite possibly for other clients. This would, for example, mean that 10% of your ‘Costs of accommodation including any property tax’ would be entered where delivering the contract would probably utilise ca 10% of your accommodation.
COMPONENT
VALUE in £ K (thousands)
- excluding VAT
Pre-contractual costs (importantly this may include a contribution to product and/or service R & D costs already sustained historically)
Cost of necessary inventory stock
Cost of raw materials
Costs of accommodation including Council Tax, services (heating, lighting, water etc) and cleaning
Cost of training
Combined costs of salaries and hiring (including advertising, screening and CRB checks, NI and pensions for all staff involvement)
Cost of construction and/or necessary relocation
Cost of R & D
Cost of protection of intellectual property
Cost of legal fees
Cost of licences
Cost of loans / money supply
Cost of administration (including photocopying etc)
Cost of client liaison (excluding other costs itemised elsewhere)
Cost of consumables (including printing)
Cost of plant and / or investment in capital equipment
Cost of IT (including equipment and Internet / Intranet, software etc)
Cost of vehicles and travel (including essential car allowances, not to be counted also within salaries)
Cost of depreciations and write-downs
Costs of distribution (excluding other costs itemised elsewhere)
Costs of post-delivery service where relevant for the duration of any service contract
Cost of subcontracted work / 2nd tier provision
Cost of any insurance enhancement
Costs of medical and heath & safety provision including equipment and inspections
Costs of telephones, mobile phones and faxes
Costs of postage and couriers
Cost of security (including patrols, screening, surveillance, document shredding, software not already costed in with IT etc)
Costs of equipment hire and maintenance (including the servicing of equipment and redecoration)
Costs of project-specific board meetings
Contingency fund
Other items
A: Total of aforementioned anticipated costs of performing the contract (excluding VAT)
B: Anticipated margin (excluding VAT)
A + B: Selling cost / grand total / value of bid (excluding VAT)
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