Tender estimating in Bendigo
Tendr prices commercial landscape tenders for Bendigo subcontractors: quantity takeoff from the drawings, bill of quantities priced to your own rates, and a submission-ready package in the builder's format. Fixed fee per tender, nothing to pay until you approve the quote.
What we price
Five services, all priced per tender and all against your own rates: quantity takeoff, priced bill of quantities, tender submission, scope and contract review and variation pricing. Take one or take the lot. If you only want the measured quantities and intend to price them yourself, that is a common request and the fee drops accordingly. The services pages set out what each one covers and how the fixed fee works.
What is different about pricing a Bendigo package
State and council work comes through Buying for Victoria. The regional commercial pipeline is weighted towards health, education and civic projects, and the landscape scope attached to them is usually larger and more planting-heavy than the building value suggests.
Bendigo is hotter and drier than Melbourne through summer, and that changes the establishment risk on every planting and turf line. Irrigation is not an optional extra on a summer handover here, and a specification that assumes mains water without saying so is worth a clarification before it is worth a price.
Box-ironbark country and old goldfields workings mean shallow rock and disturbed fill turn up more often than the drawings admit. Excavation and subgrade rates get qualified against what the geotechnical report actually covers, and where it does not cover the landscape footprint, that gets said.
Frequently asked questions
How do you handle irrigation scope?
It is measured and priced like any other line, against your rates. Where the specification is silent on water source or pressure, that is a clarification rather than an assumption buried in a rate.
Do you price maintenance and establishment periods?
Yes, where the tender includes one. The length of the establishment period and the handover season are what drive that number, so both get checked against the program rather than taken from the specification alone.
What if the tender has no geotechnical report for the landscape area?
Then the excavation and subgrade lines get qualified against what the report actually covers. On old goldfields ground that gap is common enough that leaving it unstated is the expensive option.