Home Interiors Quote Comparer and BOQ Red-Flag Checker for 3 Vendor Quotes

Homeowners doing up a flat, and consultants helping a client, can line up three interior or renovation quotes item by item. You see what each quote leaves out or leaves open, whether its payment schedule runs ahead of the work, and which vendor is cheapest like-for-like, not just on the headline total.

What's inside

• Interiors-Quote-Comparer-v1.0.xlsx: a 12-sheet workbook (Start Here, Project, Item Master, Quote A, Quote B, Quote C, Compare, Benchmarks, Red Flags, Payment Plan, Summary, Lists). It opens with a fictional Pune 2BHK sample: 50 items and three fictional vendors with 60 quote lines each, set up so the lowest quote is not the lowest like-for-like total. Start Here explains how to clear it.
• Interiors-BOQ-Red-Flag-Checklist.pdf: a 7-page printable checklist with 70 questions to ask before signing, in 10 groups: scope and drawings, materials and brands, hardware, electrical and plumbing, civil work, timeline and delays, payments and retention, warranty and after-sales, site rules and society permissions, and handover and snags. Each question has a tick box and a notes column.
• Interiors-Quote-Comparer-Guide.pdf: a 17-page guide covering how to normalise three quotes, reading specifications without trusting labels, what each red flag means, setting benchmarks honestly, payment plans, society permissions to ask about, and what the tool cannot tell you.

How to use it

1. Build your own item list (up to 250 items) from the most detailed quote. Give each item one unit, your reference quantity, the specification you expect, and mark the must-haves.
2. Type each vendor's lines as written (up to 250 per quote) and map each line to your items. Where a vendor uses a different unit, enter your own conversion factor; the workbook never assumes one.
3. Add your own benchmark rates with their source and date, and each vendor's payment milestones.
4. Read Compare, Red Flags and Summary. Summary shows quoted and like-for-like totals and lists the questions to send each vendor.

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