Value proposition

Potential capabilities offered by BidModel include:

• Capture expected monthly income and costs to assess the financial attractiveness of opportunities, e.g. setup new business, bespoke customer pricing
• Show expected financial performance metrics, e.g. Revenues, margins, cash generated, Net Present Value, payback term, cash strain
• Sensitivity analysis of metrics to changes in business case drivers, e.g. salaries
• Provide sample business cases by business type/region
• Allow export of business case data to external data stores, e.g. Excel (CSV), Google Sheet, DropBox, JSON, Databases, SharePoint, PDF
• Import data from external source(s), e.g. Excel
• Allow business case options/scenarios
• Track actual financials relative to planned business case
• Pricing strategy development
• Web based and off-line versions, e.g. Excel, Google Sheet
• Accessible via phone, tablet and laptop
• Provide Create, Read, Update and Delete business case rights to others

Critical assumptions

The key assumptions that need to be tested about potential users are:

• Need a way to assess the financial attractiveness of potential projects and have no easy way to do this now
• Able and happy to enter business financials (cost and revenue drivers) into an on-line (or stand-alone) tool
• Want to share financial proposals with other people or groups in a secure way
• Want to track actual financials v plan
• Require access via laptop, tablet and phone.
• Want help developing pricing strategies
• Want to import from and export financial data to other systems