Bid time savings calculator.
Enter your team's workload and costs. The saving applies only to time spent qualifying tenders. Drafting remains part of your workload; any weak-fit drafting you avoid is shown separately.
Qualification effort
First-response effort
Cost and expected time saving
Weak-fit drafting avoided
Shown separately so the headline value stays conservative.
What the calculator is measuring.
Current bid operations time.
The baseline is the time your team spends reviewing notices plus the time spent drafting first responses for opportunities that make it past the first filter.
Capacity returned to the team.
The saved-time estimate applies your chosen percentage only to qualification hours. It does not assume TenderLead writes bids or reduces drafting time. Replace the example assumptions with timings from your own team.
Monthly cost divided by hourly staff cost.
If TenderLead Pro costs £39/month with no annual lock-in and staff time costs £45/hour, it needs to save about 0.9 hours/month to break even on time alone.
Revenue and win-rate assumptions.
The model does not assume more wins, larger contracts, or better win rates. Those may matter, but they should be tested with real pilot data.
Where this sits in the TenderLead workflow.
Use the calculator before the team commits to more drafting.
Use the estimate to compare your current qualification effort with the subscription cost. Your team remains responsible for checking requirements and preparing the bid.
Common questions.
Is this calculator a revenue forecast?
No. It estimates bid-team time capacity from your own assumptions. It does not forecast win rate, contract revenue, or guaranteed savings.
Why separate weak-fit bid avoidance from the main value?
Because no-bid filtering can protect a lot of time, but it is easy to double-count. TenderLead keeps the headline value conservative and shows avoided weak-fit drafting separately.
Where should this sit in the bid workflow?
Use it beside a bid/no-bid score, route check, and evidence review. If the opportunity clears those checks, move it into drafting.
Does responding faster improve bid success?
Not as a direct public-procurement claim. Buyers assess tenders against the published criteria, regardless of whether a compliant bid arrived earlier. The useful speed advantage is operational: qualify sooner, leave more time for evidence, clarifications, compliance checks, and avoid deadline risk.