[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":452},["ShallowReactive",2],{"article-blog_en-\u002Fblog\u002Fbid-tabulation-template":3,"tag-counts-blog_en":301,"$f22i0dbx66vnyd":303},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":285,"cover":286,"coverAlt":287,"date":288,"description":289,"draft":290,"extension":291,"meta":292,"navigation":293,"path":294,"seo":295,"stem":296,"tags":297,"updated":299,"__hash__":300},"blog_en\u002Fblog\u002Fbid-tabulation-template.md","Bid Tabulation Template (Free Excel Download)","mira-holt",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":275},"minimark",[10,14,17,21,26,30,33,37,49,200,203,207,210,219,223,227,230,237,240,244,247,251,257,263,269],[11,12,13],"p",{},"A bid tabulation is the table you build after the proposals come in: one row per bidder, price and schedule and qualifications in fixed columns, so the comparison takes minutes instead of a week of flipping through PDFs.",[11,15,16],{},"This page gives you three things: the template itself as a free Excel download, the reasoning behind each column, and a filled-in example you can click through.",[18,19],"figure-bid-table",{"caption":20},"The template, filled: six proposals for one corridor project, one row per bidder.",[22,23,25],"h2",{"id":24},"download-the-template","Download the template",[27,28],"template-attachment",{"slug":29},"bid-comparison",[11,31,32],{},"The template is free, and so is looking at it: the attachment opens in the workbench already filled by six real proposals — no email, no signup. Take the columns, delete the ones you don't need, add the ones your ITB asked for. The one moment it asks you to sign in is when you want to fill it with bids of your own.",[22,34,36],{"id":35},"the-columns-and-why-each-one-earns-its-place","The columns, and why each one earns its place",[11,38,39,40,44,45,48],{},"Every column in this template does exactly one of two jobs: it helps you ",[41,42,43],"strong",{},"rank"," the bids (price, duration), or it helps you ",[41,46,47],{},"disqualify"," them (bond shortfall, exceptions). A column that does neither is noise.",[50,51,52,68],"table",{},[53,54,55],"thead",{},[56,57,58,62,65],"tr",{},[59,60,61],"th",{},"Column",[59,63,64],{},"Type",[59,66,67],{},"What goes in it",[69,70,71,83,94,105,115,126,137,148,158,168,179,190],"tbody",{},[56,72,73,77,80],{},[74,75,76],"td",{},"Vendor",[74,78,79],{},"text",[74,81,82],{},"Legal entity name from the bid letter, not a nickname",[56,84,85,88,91],{},[74,86,87],{},"Total Bid Price",[74,89,90],{},"currency",[74,92,93],{},"The lump sum from the bid letter — write the tax basis into the column header",[56,95,96,99,102],{},[74,97,98],{},"Discount",[74,100,101],{},"percent",[74,103,104],{},"A discount already reflected in the total, not an additional one",[56,106,107,110,112],{},[74,108,109],{},"Bid Bond",[74,111,90],{},[74,113,114],{},"The security actually posted, read against what the RFP required",[56,116,117,120,123],{},[74,118,119],{},"Duration",[74,121,122],{},"number (days)",[74,124,125],{},"State calendar vs working days, and the start trigger, in the header",[56,127,128,131,134],{},[74,129,130],{},"Warranty",[74,132,133],{},"number (months)",[74,135,136],{},"State whether it runs from delivery or final acceptance",[56,138,139,142,145],{},[74,140,141],{},"License Class",[74,143,144],{},"enum",[74,146,147],{},"As stated on the contractor's certificate",[56,149,150,153,155],{},[74,151,152],{},"Signatory",[74,154,79],{},[74,156,157],{},"The officer who executed the bid letter",[56,159,160,163,165],{},[74,161,162],{},"Annual Revenue",[74,164,90],{},[74,166,167],{},"From the bidder's financial statements — the usual qualification gate",[56,169,170,173,176],{},[74,171,172],{},"Bid Date",[74,174,175],{},"date",[74,177,178],{},"From the cover sheet and signature block",[56,180,181,184,187],{},[74,182,183],{},"Responsive",[74,185,186],{},"yes\u002Fno",[74,188,189],{},"Whether the bidder took any exception to the RFP terms",[56,191,192,195,197],{},[74,193,194],{},"Exceptions",[74,196,79],{},[74,198,199],{},"The deviations, quoted in the bidder's own words",[11,201,202],{},"The last two are the columns people leave out, and the ones that cause trouble in the award meeting. A low bid with an exception on payment terms is not comparable to a clean bid three percent higher — and if the table doesn't show that, someone ends up digging through the originals mid-meeting.",[22,204,206],{"id":205},"the-fields-where-comparisons-go-wrong","The fields where comparisons go wrong",[11,208,209],{},"The numbers can be copied correctly and still compared wrongly. The five that cause the most damage: the tax basis of the total price, whether the discount was already deducted, calendar days versus working days, the warranty start trigger, and the bond as a pass\u002Ffail gate rather than a number to rank.",[11,211,212,213,218],{},"Each of these is covered, with worked examples, in the companion piece: ",[214,215,217],"a",{"href":216},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbid-comparison-table","How to Compare Contractor Bids",".",[22,220,222],{"id":221},"a-filled-in-example-not-a-screenshot","A filled-in example, not a screenshot",[224,225],"figure-demo",{"caption":226},"Click a cell, and the page it was read from lights up.",[11,228,229],{},"Most template pages show you a picture of a filled table. This one gives you the table itself: six real proposals for a traffic-signal modernization project, two of them scanned, already tabulated — and every cell remembers where it was read from. Click a cell and the source PDF opens at that page, with the exact words highlighted.",[11,231,232,236],{},[214,233,235],{"href":234},"\u002Fworkbench?template=bid-comparison","Open the filled-in example",". No signup.",[11,238,239],{},"The example is what \"trustworthy\" looks like for a bid tab: not a number you're asked to believe, but a number you can check in two seconds. If you're tabulating six bids by hand, this is the part that usually eats a day — the second pass where someone asks \"where did this number come from?\"",[22,241,243],{"id":242},"filling-it-from-pdfs-without-the-copy-paste","Filling it from PDFs without the copy-paste",[11,245,246],{},"If you have the proposals as PDFs, the manual part of this template — the flipping between the bid letter, the qualification documents, and the financial appendix — is exactly what Docabra does for you. Upload the batch, and you get this table filled, with the source of every cell attached. Scanned and digital PDFs work the same. You review the blanks and the outliers instead of transcribing everything.",[22,248,250],{"id":249},"frequently-asked-questions","Frequently asked questions",[11,252,253,256],{},[41,254,255],{},"What is the difference between bid tabulation and bid leveling?","\nTabulation is recording what each bidder submitted, as submitted. Leveling is the next step — adjusting for scope differences and exclusions so the numbers are actually comparable. This template does the first; the second is judgment work.",[11,258,259,262],{},[41,260,261],{},"Should the lowest bid always win?","\nNo. The tabulation exists precisely so you can see when the low bid isn't the best value: exceptions, short bonds, unrealistic durations. Most public procurement rules say \"lowest responsive and responsible,\" and this table is how you test those two words.",[11,264,265,268],{},[41,266,267],{},"Can I use this template for public procurement?","\nYes — the columns map to the standard evaluation categories (price, schedule, qualification, responsiveness). Add any scoring columns your agency's rules require.",[11,270,271,274],{},[41,272,273],{},"What format is the download?","\nA real .xlsx file: currency columns are numbers, dates are dates, the enum columns carry dropdowns. Nothing arrives as text that you have to re-type.",{"title":276,"searchDepth":277,"depth":277,"links":278},"",2,[279,280,281,282,283,284],{"id":24,"depth":277,"text":25},{"id":35,"depth":277,"text":36},{"id":205,"depth":277,"text":206},{"id":221,"depth":277,"text":222},{"id":242,"depth":277,"text":243},{"id":249,"depth":277,"text":250},"templates","\u002Fcovers\u002Fbid-tabulation-template.jpg","Overhead photograph of an estimator's desk: a printed bid comparison table surrounded by six proposal binders, a pen, and reading glasses.","2026-08-05","A bid tabulation template with the columns that actually matter — price, schedule, warranty, responsiveness — plus a filled-in example you can click through, cell by cell, back to the source 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