Bid benchmarks
Price your government bid against the field,
not against a guess.
See how many bidders a buyer draws, how far winners land below the median, and where your price would have sat, from the buyer's published award history. Ready before the pricing meeting.
A work email reserves 5,000 credits ($50).
Early access in waves · Scoped by buyer · Six markets
Where it sits. Bid benchmarks are part of market intelligence: they read a buyer's published award history, and the numbers travel with the tender record into your bid pipeline, beside your own notes and emails.
Density
Know how many bidders this buyer draws
A buyer that draws three bidders is a different market from one that draws twelve. The histogram buckets bidders per tender for the buyer you pick, and a toggle lays the whole market beside it so the two scopes line up.
- Buckets of 1 to 2, 3 to 5, 6 to 8 and 9 or more bidders
- Single-bid share, the fastest read on thin competition
- One buyer, one market or all six
Example data
Spread and percentiles
See where your price would have sat
Award values from the 10th to the 90th percentile sit on one ruler, with the median marked. Place your cost on it and you see the room above it before you write a number.
Beside the ruler, the spread panel shows how far winners landed from the median priced bid, at the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles of the buyer's history. Below the median reads as a saving, above it as a premium.
Example data
From the median to your margin
Price into the winning zone, then check your floor
See where winners usually land against the median, price to land there, subtract your cost, and test the margin against the floor your business needs.
Read
The median award for this buyer and how far below it winners usually price.
Price
Into the winning zone, then subtract your cost to get your margin.
Decide
Above your floor, bid. Below it, walk away with the numbers in hand.
Example data
Step by step on one bid: price a government bid from award history. The full method: benchmarks and pricing.
Scope and compare
One buyer, or the whole market
Pick a government buyer and every panel recomputes for it. Flip the compare toggle and the market sits beside it on the same ruler.
By buyer
The ministry or authority you are bidding to, with its own density, spread and percentiles.
Against the market
Histograms turn into shares and award values share one ruler, so a small buyer and the market line up.
Shared as a link
Every view is a link, scope and toggle included, so a colleague opens exactly the panels you read.
Bid benchmarks come with the Business plan, $39 per seat per month. They pair with the recompete radar and tender intelligence in a bid team's week.
From signal to pursuit
See the opportunity.
Choose the next move.
Follow one tender from first discovery to a considered pursuit. Each step keeps the source and the decision in view.
Illustrative bid workflow. The buyer, notice and timeline are fictional.
Explore connected pipelinesA relevant opportunity, with a place to start.
An example health ministry is buying laboratory reagents for its hospitals. Start with the scope, the closing window and the record behind the notice.
- Buyer
- Example health ministry
- Submission window
- 18 days in this scenario
- Category
- Medical and laboratory supplies
Read the scope and confirm that the opportunity belongs in your pursuit list.
Turn the notice into a decision.
Compare the buyer's priorities with your capabilities. Keep the evidence, open questions and internal decision together.
- Relevant experience
- Two comparable projects in the example
- Open question
- Confirm the fieldwork requirement
- Decision owner
- Bid lead
Ask the bid lead to review the fit and the unresolved requirement before committing the team.
Give the next step an owner.
Keep the tender, working documents and next actions on one record. The example remains in review until the bid lead decides.
- Next action
- Prepare the clarification questions
- Owner
- Proposal team
- Working stage
- Qualification, pending review
Review the proposed task, then carry the agreed plan into the bid pipeline.
Frequently asked questions
Where do the numbers come from?
From the published bid tables behind awarded tenders: the bidders, their prices and the award. Each panel is computed from those tables for the buyer you choose.
Can I benchmark one buyer?
Yes, that is the default. Pick a government buyer and the histogram, the spread and the percentiles recompute for its awards. Flip the compare toggle to lay the whole market beside it on the same ruler, and share the view as a link.
What does winner versus median mean?
On each awarded tender the winning bid is compared with the median priced bid, and the panel shows that gap at the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles of the buyer's history. A buyer whose winners usually price 10 per cent below the median tells you where the winning zone sits.
How does this reach my pricing meeting?
Open the benchmarks for the buyer, place your cost on the percentile ruler, and read the margin against your floor. Track the tender into a bid pipeline from its profile and the numbers travel with the record.
Which plan includes it, and how do I start?
Bid benchmarks come with the Business plan, $39 per seat per month. Ishara opens in waves: join the waiting list with a work email and 5,000 credits ($50) are reserved for you.
Keep exploring
Where to go next.
Tender intelligence
Government tenders across six markets, with the buyers and award history.
Price a government bid
Use award history to set a price that can win.
For bid teams
Find, qualify and price government work across six markets.
Early-access pricing
Free, Pro and Business per seat. Enterprise is scoped with the team.
Price against the field, not against a guess.
Join the waiting list and price your next bid against the buyer's own history. A work email reserves 5,000 credits ($50).
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