Tender Simulator

Quantify the cost of signing a fixed-price IT tender today.

Enter your contract parameters. The simulator compares a conventional fixed-price contract (with the supplier's risk premium baked in) against an indexed contract using the proposed European IT Hardware Price Index, calibrated against 2023–2026 EU spot data.

Contract value (EUR)

Delivery window: 18 months

Supplier fixed-price risk premium: 12%

Industry surveys put this at 8–18% on hardware-heavy 2024–2026 EU tenders.

Component basket weights (%)

ramcpustoragegpu

Window analysed

2024-11 → 2026-04

Realised blended hardware drift: +125.6%

Fixed-price contract

Today's typical EU practice

€1,120,000

base + 12% supplier hedge

Indexed contract

Proposed EU IT Hardware Index

€2,256,061

base × actual market drift

Net effect for the contracting authority

−€1,136,061

Additional cost versus a fixed-price contract over a 18-month window — -101.4% of total contract value. Indexation also removes the need for the supplier to price in worst-case risk.

Methodology: the blended drift is computed against the proposed Index categories (RAM, CPU, Storage, GPU) using the curated 2023–2026 EU spot dataset documented on the /methodology page. Reference dataset, not financial advice.