The business case for validait
Calculate with your own figures. The calculation separates monetary impact from pure capacity, counts nothing twice and discloses every formula. Your inputs stay in your browser, nothing is stored or transmitted.
Benefits and costs per year
Only the additional contribution margin, avoided external costs and the share of time counted as cost-effective are cash-effective. The remaining freed time is shown in grey and is not included in the ROI.
How robust is the result?
Each row halves one assumption, all others stay the same.
Calculation in detail
Methodology
No double counting
The freed time is used exactly once: either for additional bids or as avoided costs, or it remains as capacity in the team. Time put into bids cannot also be booked as a saving.
Contribution margin instead of revenue
The calculation values the contribution margin, spread over the contract term and only from the start of performance. Contract awards at the end of the period therefore count only in part. Additional bids are valued at today's win rate, not at the improved one.
Net present value and ramp-up
All payments are discounted monthly at the discount rate. The impact increases linearly during the ramp-up time. Your own implementation and maintenance time is included as a cost at the fully loaded rate.
Model calculation based on your assumptions, no guarantee of actual results. validait is a review tool; you make the decision on a bid.
What makes up six hours per review
The default value ‘Effort per review’ in the calculator is based on these seven steps. They occur in almost every company, regardless of the industry. The minutes are guide values for a typical tender; enter your own values above.
| Step | Today | With validait | Saving | stays with you handled by validait |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read the contract notice and assess the fitRelevant matches arrive filtered, you take a quick look | 30 min | 5 min | 25 min | |
| Download, unpack and sort the documentsRuns automatically, including ZIP packages and scans | 20 min | 0 min | 20 min | |
| Work through the specification and tender documentsvalidait reads everything, you read the summary and highlighted passages | 120 min | 20 min | 100 min | |
| Extract selection and knock-out criteriavalidait creates the list, you check it | 75 min | 10 min | 65 min | |
| Match against references, certificates and turnovervalidait matches and backs it up with a quote, you clarify open points | 60 min | 20 min | 40 min | |
| Note deadlines, formalities and open questionsvalidait lists deadlines and formalities, you check them | 25 min | 5 min | 20 min | |
| Prepare the decision and align within the teamStays with you, with a ready-made decision template | 30 min | 30 min | none | |
| Total per tender | 360 min6 hours | 90 min1.5 hours | 270 min4.5 hours, 75% |
The 75% corresponds to the assumption ‘Time saved per review’ in the calculator's realistic scenario. With 15 reviews per month, you then need 22.5 instead of 90 hours, which is 67.5 hours less. On top of that come around 12 fewer hours of portal searching.