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Every offer prices its own scope. The comparison has to start from one.
Every subcontractor reads the enquiry their own way. One excludes the scaffolding, another reserves the ground, a third prices to an older drawing. Comparing them by hand takes the days before award, and what an offer leaves out often surfaces after the subcontract is signed.
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Offers on different bases
Each offer prices its own reading of the scope, with exclusions in an appendix.
02
Reservations buried
The condition that moves the price sits in a cover letter or a footnote.
03
Gaps found after award
What no offer covered becomes your cost once the subcontract is signed.
From package to award, from either side.
Volve follows procurement, from the package you send out to the offer you award.
Scope, requirements and quantities per package, from the tender
Interfaces between packages listed before the enquiry goes out
The same basis for every supplier you invite
Offers set against the package scope and the client requirements
Exclusions and reservations shown alongside the price
The questions to ask each supplier before you award
Reservations and deviations found across every bid
Compliance checked against every requirement
Each bid assessed against the award criteria
From enquiry to a levelled comparison.
Volve shows what each offer includes. You decide how each gap closes.
Included: the offer covers it, traced to their text
Reserved: covered with a condition or caveat
Excluded: the offer states it is not included
Not addressed: the offer says nothing about it
What procurement asks Volve before award.
Tasks from a normal tender week. Every answer comes with its source.
What each offer leaves out
An exclusion in an appendix costs as much as one in the cover letter.
“List every exclusion in the four groundworks offers.”
What comes back
Each exclusion per supplier, with the page it sits on and the package item it touches.
Reservations that move the price
A reservation is a price you haven’t been given yet.
“Which reservations in these offers affect price or programme?”
What comes back
Each reservation with its wording, the supplier, and what it touches in the package.
What no offer covers
Scope nobody priced is still your scope.
“Which package items does no offer cover?”
What comes back
Each uncovered item, with the drawing or clause that puts it in the package.
Offers against the client requirements
A subcontractor who misses a client requirement passes the risk to you.
“Check the façade offers against the client’s fire and acoustic requirements.”
What comes back
Each requirement, which offers meet it, and where they say so.
Questions before award
The right question before award is cheaper than a claim after it.
“Draft clarification questions for each supplier on their open points.”
What comes back
Questions per supplier, each with their wording and the package item attached.
Incoming bids, client side
The client faces the same problem, one level up.
“Score the incoming bids against the award criteria and the requirement set.”
What comes back
A score per criterion and bid, with deviations alongside and the clause behind each.
GO FURTHER
The patterns and the checklists
Tender pattern · one-page note
Top 7 gaps in subcontractor bids
What offers leave out, and how to see it before you award.
Checklist · contractor side
How to compare subcontractor offers
Ten checks before you award, with a workbook that levels every offer on your scope.
Checklist · client side
How to evaluate bids
Ten checks before you rank the bids, with a workbook that keeps the record.
An award with no surprises
Every finding shows the offer page or clause it came from.
Your package structure and checks on every enquiry.
Time back for judgement
The levelling is done. The team’s hours go to the negotiation and the award.
From enquiry to award, from either side.
Procurement, estimating and project teams work from the same package scope. Findings and questions are shared and traceable, so the scope you awarded is the scope the project team manages.
Procurement managers
Compare offers on one basis and award with the gaps in view.
Estimators
Carry the right subcontract prices into the bid, with exclusions accounted for.
Client-side teams
Evaluate incoming bids against the award criteria and the requirement set.
FROM TWO VOLVE CUSTOMER PROJECTS
Contractor
One tender, subcontractor procurement
213
documents in the tender
73
bids compared across packages
53
bid criteria and requests checked
Public client
Three incoming bids, each assessed
64
tender requirements checked on each bid
3
award criteria benchmarked
100%
of reservations and deviations found
Bring one package and the offers you received, and we’ll run them through Volve with you. You’ll see each offer set against the scope, with exclusions and reservations alongside, and the questions to ask before you award. Your team makes the call.
A working session on your own documents
Exclusions, reservations and what no offer covers
No preparation needed from your team
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