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A proper tender is unpaid work.
Without one shared list, each builder prices their own reading of the drawings.
Someone in the practice reconciles three formats before the client can be advised.
It has to be defensible long after the round closes.
The fix
We run the round.You advise your client.
Four steps, and the practice keeps the judgement throughout.
Upload once, for your client.
Your drawings, reports and specifications go up in one place. No brief to write, no pack to assemble, no builders to chase for a price.
We identify the scope. You choose who prices it.
We read your documents and lay out the full scope of works, every item referenced to its page, then your client approves it. Keep the round to builders you trust, open it to the verified network, or run both at once.
Every submission against one scope.
Every builder prices the same scope and answers the same questions under signature. There is nothing left to reconcile, and no risk that one submission quietly excluded what another included.
Hand your client the answer.
The scoring, the flags and every difference between the tenders are already set out for you. You add the judgement, your practice’s name goes on it, and the whole record holds up long after the round closes.
Every builder is checked before they price, and every rule is set before the round opens.
ABN against the Australian Business Register, licence against the state register where one connects and by our team where it does not. A builder joins an open round only once both have passed. A builder you invite joins on your say so, and their verification status is shown on the round either way.
Each line names the document, page and revision it came from. Anything we cannot trace is removed before your client sees it, and a revised pack goes to every builder at once as a numbered addendum.
The same six measures for every tender on the round, published in advance. Each score shows what was earned and what was not, so any line of your recommendation can be defended.
The round is yours, and the contract is your client’s.
The Preferred Partner register exists to make good practices easier to find. Partners receive, with no listing fee:
One platform, where Australia’s residential builds get organised.
Homeowners
bring the project
Plans in, tenders back, compared properly.
Building designers
bring the design
Tenders run under the practice’s name.
Builders
bring it to life
One list to price, no commission.
Finance brokers
back the build
Introduced when a client needs lending.
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The Build Brief
A short weekly read on the economics of getting homes built in Australia. Plain language, every figure attributed to its source, and no opinion dressed up as news.
Inflation rose more than the RBA expected, ahead of its 3 November cash rate decision.
Trimmed mean inflation rose 1.0% in the September quarter. Economists say the Reserve Bank's August forecasts implied about 0.8%. The four major banks now forecast a cash rate rise, and the RBA will announce its decision on Tuesday 3 November.
Read this issueIf yours isn’t here, email info@builderhq.com.au and a human answers.
One scope, priced by every builder, and a recommendation that holds up.