Government tender calculators

Every Indian government tender asks the same three numbers before anything else: can your firm carry the contract value (bid capacity), how much earnest money you must lock up (EMD), and, for consultancy work, what technical score you need so your price still wins under QCBS. Getting any of them wrong is the most common reason a bid is rejected at the technical stage or turns out unprofitable after award.

These calculators use the formulas the buyers use. Bid capacity follows the CPWD and state PWD rule (2 × A × N − B, where A is your best annual turnover in the last five years, N is the contract period in years and B is the value of work still in hand). The EMD tool applies the usual 2 to 5 percent bands and the MSE, startup and Bid Security Declaration exemptions from GFR 2017. The QCBS tool weights technical and financial scores exactly as a 70:30 or 80:20 evaluation would.

Use them before you buy tender documents, then let BidShakti check the same numbers against the actual tender when you analyse it. No sign-up, nothing is stored.