What is the bidding base?

Let's see, the famous bidding price (or PBL, if you like to throw acronyms), is basically the magic number that the administration puts to say: "So far I arrive. More than this, or dreaming." It is like when you go to super with a budget and you know that if you pass, you have to leave the chocolate in the box. Well, but with public contracts.

Calculating this number is no nonsense. Really, you have to curb it: look at the market, see how much others are charging for the same thing, add the production costs, include what life goes up (hello, inflation) and even have an eye on the dollar if you have to import something. And that without counting the technical specifications, which always come with small print, and all administrative management and supervision rolls.

What is this base price for? Well, for anyone to go ready. On the one hand, no bidder can ask for more money than the entity is willing to release. And on the other, it is not worth throwing prices to the ground to win the tender and then not being able to meet or coña. Because yes, offers too low smell weird and can end worse than they started.

So if a company wants to launch this of tenders, it is better to be clear about the PBL. It is not just that an offer above goes to the trash. It is that if you pass up, the administration still puts the face of "Surely you can do this for that price?" And it rules out the same. There are no magic tricks here.

Of course, the base price is not the only king of the party. Many times they also look at the quality, company experience, delivery deadlines and other things that can make a difference. So it is not worth being the cheapest: you have to be competitive, but without losing the north, or falling short in what you are going to offer.

Total, that the bidding base is the guardian of the door in public procurement. If you want to enter the game, you better know, understand and respect it. Because if not, not even try.