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TENDER
FORMS
SPECIFICATIONS AND TYPOLOGY
 A tender is a submission made by a
contractor in response to an invitation to
tender. So, Tender is a formal written offer to
carry out work, supply goods, or buy land,
shares, or another asset for a stated fixed
price and in other words formally offer for
carrying out work, supplying goods etc.
Tender documents may be prepared for a

TENDER range of contracts, such as equipment

supply, the main construction contract

FORMS (including design by the contractor),

demolition, enabling works, etc.

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 Tenders documents may include:
• A letter of invitation to tender.-The form of tender.
• Preliminaries: including pre-construction information
and site waste management plan (if required).
• The form of contract, contract conditions and
amendments. This might include a model enabling
amendment for building information modelling (BIM),
making a BIM protocol a contractual document.
• A tender pricing document (or contract sum analysis

TENDER
on design and build projects).
• Employer's information requirements for BIM.
• Design drawings, and perhaps an existing building

FORMS information model.

• Specifications.
• Tender return slip.

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 • OPEN TENDERS

• NEGOTIATED TENDERS

TYPOLOGY OF
TENDERS • SELECTIVE TENDERS

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 OPEN TENDERS
Form of advertisements in a national or local
newspaper inviting contractors to apply for
tendering competition for carrying out the
work. The main characteristic of which are
given usually the deposit is required in order
to discourage frivolous applications. The
deposit is returnable on submission of a
TYPOLOGY OF tender.

TENDERS
It allows contractor to submit tender to an
advertised project.

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 ADVANTAGES

• Keep competition from large number of applicant.

• Possibility to get competitive price.
• No chance for biasedness.
• Provide opportunities to new comers, unknown
contractors to enter to the market.

DISADVANTAGES

• Time and cost taken to review the large number of

TYPOLOGY OF applicant
• The cost of tendering accumulated to the industry
TENDERS and general cost to the industry is high.
• Difficult to evaluate and select best one from wide
range of applicant.

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 NEGOTIATED TENDERS
Well reputed contractors are negotiated by
inviting them to submit their tenders. Client
and contractors determine the perimeters
for negotiation before commencement of the
project.

TYPOLOGY OF
TENDERS

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 ADVANTAGES

• Expected quality and functions can be achieved more.

• Speed up the entire project.
• The project objective and definition may be managed.
(builders involvement in the design stage).

DISADVANTAGES

• Non-competition forces for high tender sum.

TYPOLOGY OF • Less formality make course more contract
administration inquiries.
TENDERS • Lack of accountability.

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 SELECTIVE TENDERS
Contactors can apply to be included on an
approved list maintain by an employing
body often belonging to an architectural
practice, local authority or statutory body.
These organization have extensive
knowledge and experience of individual
contractors and regularly review contactors.
TYPOLOGY OF
TENDERS

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 ADVANTAGES

• Cost of tendering is reduced.

• Time consuming for the tender evaluation is reduced.
• Allow only capable and approved firms are to be
tender.
• Provide limited competition and easy to screen and
select.

DISADVANTAGES

TYPOLOGY OF
• Less competition forces leads to high tender sum.
• Opportunities for collision among competitors,

TENDERS mislead the time.

• New comers are not given a chance.
• The industries who are not shortlisted complains.

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Thank You
ASHISH BOSE
AKSHITA AGARWAL
DANIA IRSHAD
AZIZ SEIKH
AYAAN ABBAS ANSARI
ADEL ANSARI