The pricing breakdown (DPGF) software synced with your specification

Why a dedicated pricing breakdown tool?

Building a pricing breakdown in Excel means re-typing the specification items by hand, re-pasting the take-off quantities and hoping nothing has moved since the last version. One omission, and the bids you receive are no longer comparable.

A dedicated tool builds the priced breakdown straight from the specification and the take-off: every price line matches a described work item, and the template sent to contractors stays consistent with the rest of the tender package.

How it works

Three steps, a single entry:

• Describe the project and its specification: the trades and pricing lines pre-fill from the selected articles.
• Link the take-off quantities: the priced breakdown aligns with the work items, with no re-keying.
• Export a polished pricing breakdown, ready for contractors to fill in, and attach it to the tender package.

What you get

• A priced breakdown structured by trade, aligned with the specification.
• Quantities from the take-off, with no double entry or re-pasting from Excel.
• A polished export, one template per trade, ready to share and fill in by contractors.
• Genuinely comparable bids: every contractor prices the exact same scope.

Specification and pricing breakdown: the "what" vs the "how much"

The specification describes the work — the "what" and the "how"; the pricing breakdown gives its priced detail — the "how much". Two distinct documents in the package, but one single project dataset.

In BuildOS, the specification, the take-off and the pricing breakdown share that data: change an article or a quantity and the priced breakdown realigns. The result: fewer omissions, a package that stays consistent from brief to site, and data that flows instead of being re-entered.