Features

Whatever your role is or whatever your need is, a set of business features are available

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Build Estimate filter

Build
the Cost Estimate

Consolidated Offer filter

Derive
the Offer

Analyse Data filter

Analyse
data

Competitiveness filter

Process
Improvement

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a competitive edge

Build
the Cost Estimate

Derive
the Offer

Analyse
data

Process
Improvement

Gain
a competitive edge

Build Offer Wizard

Easily Build the Offer

Cost Estimates and Offer Prices are fully integrated. The Build Offer Wizard enables the user to quickly and confidently build an offer from the cost estimate, preserving linkages at the item level.

Structure the Offer to align with the Client’s requested Price Breakdown

DeviProp makes it easy to build an Offer that aligns with the structure requested by the client in their invitation to tender. DeviProp’s "Links" context view provides an integrated environment to create and modify the links between the cost estimates and the offer items. Individual cost items can be mapped to individual price items or spread across several items.

Choose the Pricing Strategy

Pricing Strategy Options

DeviProp provides 3 alternative methods of calculating selling prices to align with the requirements of the Tender, the choice of which can be changed at any time during the construction of the offer:

In addition, an imposed margin or fixed selling price can be set for any specific individual item.

Customer Payments Schedule

Fine tune the proposed Customer Payments Schedule

The Offer schedule enables the definition of customer payments for each item in the price list. The timing of these payments can be adjusted to manage the gap between disbursements (cash out) and receipts (cash in).

Close scrutiny of gaps in the Financing diagram curves and evaluation of the results of calculating the selling price enables the best selling price to be achieved.

Understanding the impact of potential financial costs affecting cash flow can enable the negotiation of advantageous changes in payment milestones.

Optimise and Justify the Selling Price

Supporting the Sales Team in the Negotiation phase

Supporting the Sales Team in the Negotiation phase

Over and above the minimum margin target set by the organisation, DeviProp enables the inclusion of a negotiation margin to evaluate the impact of a more favourable selling price, enabling the organisation’s minimum margin targets to be exceeded.

Moreover, during negotiation, the client may request a change to the Tender requirements. As Prices are built from the costs through the links, an updated estimate can be automatically generated for the offer.

Generating the Costs to Prices Links report provides the detail of how the Cost Items are mapped to the Price items and vice versa.

Similarly, project cash flow can be optimised by aligning the disbursement (cash out) and receipts (cash in) curves, by modifying the timing and amount of Client payments to reduce or eliminate financial costs.

Analysis of the gaps in the financing diagram curve and the results of the selling price calculation helps the successful negotiation of the best selling price.

Build and justify an offer with margins fixed by the Client

DeviProp enables the organisation to build and justify a “Cost Plus” or “Auditable” offer, commonly used in Public Sector bids. Detail of the Cost Estimate is provided to the Client and agreed margins are applied to derive the Offer Price. DeviProp is used to manage the contract at the detailed level and take account of agreed changes in scope and cost assumptions.

The interface is designed to represent the main results on an item by item basis.