Know where your estimate sits before the tender goes out.

Remo compares your pre-tender estimate — and your bills of quantities — against projects you have already tendered and awarded. Section by section, in AED per m², adjusted for inflation. Never a pooled market index — only your own history.

Book a pilot Where it fits

Remo AI PTE Benchmark: a grand total of 5,206.50 AED per square metre against a benchmark of 4,565.50, marked in band at plus 14 percent, with a bar chart comparing this PTE against the benchmark for each of eight sections. — Every section against the comparator, with the two that have drifted called out. Illustrative project data.

Where it fits

Benchmarking is not a one-off report.

The same comparison is worth running at three separate points, because the numbers move between them — and so does the cost of being wrong.

Before the tender

PTE finalisation

Validate the estimate before it is issued. A section sitting 27% above the band is far cheaper to question now than to defend after award.

During the tender

Pre-tender clarifications

Re-run the comparison as clarifications land, so an agreed change is checked against history rather than accepted on its own terms.

Every time it changes

Revisions

Scope and rates drift between revisions. Benchmark each one and the drift is visible as it happens, not at the end.

Matched, not approximated

Against your own projects, section by section.

Remo finds the most recent comparable project, maps its sections onto yours, and reports coverage honestly — 8 of 8 matched, or fewer, and it says which.

Adjusted, not raw

An inflation factor and a regional series are applied, so a 2024 project is a fair comparator for a 2026 one.

On a stated basis

Lowest bidder, area basis GFA, cost per m². The basis is printed on the report, so two people reading it are reading the same thing.

In band, or a pointer

Sections inside the expected range are marked in band. The ones outside it are flagged as pointers to investigate — not verdicts.

Down to the amount

Each section carries its amount, its cost rate, the benchmark rate and the variance, so a finding can be checked rather than believed.

Your comparators are your own projects. A benchmark is drawn only from your organisation's own tender history. Your rates never appear in another organisation's benchmark, and we do not build a pooled index or market average out of client documents. If you have no comparable past project, the report says so rather than reaching outside your history. How we handle your tender data →

A by-section table showing amount, cost rate, benchmark and variance for eight sections, with Finishes at plus 23.1 percent and Mechanical Engineering Installations at plus 27.6 percent marked as pointers. — Finishes and MEP are the two pointers here; the other six sections sit in band. Illustrative project data.

Grand total comparison of three candidate pre-tender estimates from Northpoint, Keystone and Vantage against a comparator, followed by a bill-by-bill split of all three. — Three candidate PTEs against one comparator, then split by bill. Illustrative project data.

More than one estimate

When several consultants price the same job.

Candidate PTEs rarely disagree evenly. Put side by side against the same comparator, the disagreement localises — usually to one or two bills — and that is where the conversation should happen.

Each candidate is shown against the comparator and against the others, bill by bill and section by section, so you can see whether one estimate is high overall or high in one place.

In motion

A benchmark run, end to end.

54 seconds, no sound. A historical benchmark run followed by three candidate PTEs.

Processed to date

The history the benchmark draws on.

75+tenders analysed

~40BAED tender value

340bids compared

65,000pages read

Benchmark the estimate you are finalising now.

One live PTE is enough to see what the comparison tells you that a review meeting doesn't.

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