ROI calculator

What a year of tendering costs, and returns, at your numbers.

Six sliders, all yours: how many tenders you could price, your win rate, the contract value, the hours a bid takes, what an hour costs you, and the share of poor fits you would skip once every tender is scored. The page does the arithmetic and shows its working. It does not predict wins.

Tenders you could price a month4

The ones you would genuinely bid.

Your win rate20%

Your own history. Helm never predicts it.

Average contract value$120k

Over the life of the contract, ex GST.

Hours per bid24 h

Reading, pricing, writing, checking.

Cost of an hour$110

Fully loaded, to your business.

Poor fits you would skip once scored40%

The one assumption: you pass on what Helm scores under 50. Set it to what you believe.

A year at your numbers

$1,152,000

revenue from 9.6 wins on 48 bids

Cost of bidding

$126,720

1,152 hours a year

Cost avoided

$50,688

461 hours not spent on poor fits

Share of bidding cost avoided40%

Every number is yours; the only assumption is the share you skip, and you set it. Nothing here is a promise about what Helm wins you.

How to read it

Revenue is your bids a year, times your win rate, times the average contract. The cost of bidding is every bid, times the hours, times your hourly cost. The third bar is the bid cost you avoid by not pricing the tenders that were never a fit: the share is the one assumption on this page, and you set it. Helm scores every open tender 0 to 100 against your capability statement with each point named, so the skip decision is yours with the reasons in front of you, never a verdict from the machine.

Prices for Helm itself are on the pricing page, five tiers from free, so you can set this saving against the cost yourself. How the score is built is on how it works.