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 Tendering
is the most vital task of all for a construction company. The
most important aim of tendering is not just submitting a tender and
winning the bid. The success for tendering is to win the bid
with a reasonable level of profit and risk built-in.
The Enormous
size of the tender document, the extreme short
period for the tendering, the late return of the
'sub-contractors'
and 'suppliers' quotations and the late issue of
the addendum make this basic aim of tendering difficult if not
impossible to achieve. The result would be just like most of us
will do when under a panic situation - shooting at the dark, i.e .
submitting a tender based on rough assumptions and
expecting all the problems can be sorted out after winning the
bid. In the existing keen and competitive market, such way of
winning a bid will always end up with substantial loss
during construction.
A
computer system with fast, accurate and reliable
performance to assist the estimators in tendering is the only
solution for all construction companies in this highly
competitive market. However, the computer system must be
sophisticated in the sense that it must be able to handle all the
complicated issues like mark-up, front loading, sub-contractors’ quotations,
allowance for unforeseeable risk, and retrieval of historical pricing data etc
for which the estimators will have catered for manually; and also it must be
simple in the sense that it can be manageable by the estimators who have little
or even no knowledge whatsoever in computer. Obviously, 'In-house'
developed program using Spread sheet will not serve such purpose.
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