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Benchmark BOQ line items and unit rates against historical MDB award data

Pricing and BOQ Intelligence benchmarks every bill of quantities line item and unit rate against historical World Bank, ADB, AfDB, and other MDB award data. It runs cost-structure analysis and normalizes currency across markets so your bid is competitive yet profitable on ICB and works contracts.
100+
MDB and UN institutions in the award benchmark set
189
member nations covered for currency normalization
10min
vs days of manual unit-rate benchmarking

Key Capabilities

What it does

BOQ Line Item Extraction

Reads the bill of quantities from the Standard Bidding Documents, capturing each item with its description, unit of measurement, and quantity, and handles multi-section BOQs spanning civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical works.

Unit Rate Benchmarking

Matches every BOQ line against historical MDB award data and shows the rate band comparable contracts cleared at, from aggressive to premium, so you price competitively without bidding below cost.

Cost-Structure Analysis

Breaks each rate into its labour, material, plant, and overhead components, flags items where your build-up diverges from the market band, and surfaces the line items that drive total bid price.

Currency Normalization Across Markets

Converts reference prices from awards in any member nation to a common base currency, adjusting for market and period, so a comparable contract in another country is a usable benchmark for yours in USD.

How it Works

Simple steps to get started

1

Upload the bidding document

Include the Standard Bidding Document, the priced BOQ template, and any technical specifications.

2

AI extracts and benchmarks the BOQ

Each line item is read and matched against historical MDB award data, currency-normalized to a common base.

3

Review rate bands and cost structure

See the market band per item alongside your build-up, with outliers and price drivers flagged for your cost team.

4

Export the priced BOQ

The populated bill of quantities exports to Excel, ready for your financial proposal.

Why it Matters

The problem this solves

Pricing decides whether you win the award or win the work. Multilateral development bank tenders are evaluated lowest-evaluated-substantially-responsive, so a unit rate that is a few percent off the market band loses the contract or erodes your margin once mobilized. The benchmarking engine reads the bill of quantities from the Standard Bidding Documents, matches each item against historical award data across 100-plus institutions and 189 member nations, and shows the rate band that comparable contracts actually cleared at. Currency normalization converts every reference price to a common base so a road contract awarded in one market is comparable to yours in another. What takes a cost team days of spreadsheet work, combing past awards and adjusting for currency and market, the system does in minutes and traces every benchmark to its source contract.


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