Every bid starts from a copied file
One maintained rate master and a bid template that reads from it, so a new tender is quantities and assumptions rather than a hunt for last year's file.
India · Delhi · New Delhi
Tender costing, project tracking and compliance reporting with a paper trail. Some New Delhi clients want an Excel freelancer for one job; others need a consultant, a VBA developer or a data analyst over months. Both work the same way: hourly, remote, and documented at handover.
Abhishek
Abhishek Singh
Akhilesh
Prahalad
ShaktiA remote team of Excel and spreadsheet specialists. You work directly with the person building your file, from the first question to the final handover. More about us.
The local picture
A large share of Delhi and NCR business involves bidding, and bidding involves costing sheets that need to be both fast and defensible. A tender response might need a full costed bid in five days, built from rate cards, historical project data and a margin assumption someone senior has to sign off. The same firms then need project tracking that proves delivery against what was bid — often to a government client with specific documentation expectations.
What we get hired for here
Delhi engagements often start with tender or project costing. The bid team has a template that has been copied and modified so many times that nobody knows which version is current, and each new bid starts by hunting for the last similar one. We build a rate master and a bid model that reads from it, so a new tender is a new set of quantities against a maintained rate card rather than an archaeology exercise. The knock-on benefit is that bid-versus-actual analysis becomes possible for the first time.
One maintained rate master and a bid template that reads from it, so a new tender is quantities and assumptions rather than a hunt for last year's file.
Link delivered project cost back to what was bid, so the estimating assumptions improve with each cycle instead of repeating.
Reporting with a traceable calculation path and version history, built for a file that will be examined rather than skimmed.
Typical source data for New Delhi clients: Tally or SAP exports, rate contracts and vendor quotations, project execution data from site, historical tender files, and the compliance documentation required by the awarding body.
An illustrative scenario
A composite example built to show method, not a specific client engagement. No client is identified and no outcome is guaranteed.
Each bid began by finding a similar past tender and editing it. Rates were inconsistent between bids and nobody could say why.
We build a rate master — labour, material, subcontract, overhead — with an owner and a revision date on every line.
The bid template becomes quantities plus assumptions, pulling rates from the master. Margin sits in one visible place for sign-off.
Because every bid now references the same master, comparing bid to actual on delivered projects becomes a report rather than a research project.
Working together across time zones
Same-time-zone remote collaboration, with screen-sharing sessions scheduled around your working day.
For a first conversation, the most useful thing to send is how a bid is costed today, where the rates come from, and whether you can compare a finished project back to what you bid. You do not need a requirements document, and if the file is sensitive a screen recording works just as well.
The workbook, or a description of what is slow.
Rate, hours and timeline, usually within a day.
Unlocked files, documentation, recorded walkthrough.
Services
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Read more →Working together
Same-time-zone remote collaboration, with screen-sharing sessions scheduled around your working day.
| Your working day | 09:00–18:00 |
|---|---|
| We are online for live calls | 09:30–19:00 (8.5 hours of direct overlap) |
| Our working day, in your time | 09:30–19:30 |
| Practical effect | Written work progresses outside your hours and is waiting the next morning |
What you get back
Unlocked files and commented code, a written update procedure, a recorded walkthrough, and intellectual property transferred to you. Nothing is hosted with us and nothing stops working if we stop working together.
Meet the teamQuestions
Answers written for this city, including the ones that might cost us the job.
Ask us something elseWe work with New Delhi and NCR clients remotely, with same-time-zone calls, shared workbooks and documented handover. Describe your project and we will match it to the right specialist.
Yes. The structure matters more than the sector — a rate master, a quantities layer, and one visible place where margin is set. We adapt the categories to how your estimators already think, rather than imposing a generic template.
Within Excel the practical answer is a version log inside the file plus a naming convention that is actually enforced. For genuine version control, the files should live in SharePoint or Google Drive with history enabled — we will set up the discipline, but we will not pretend a spreadsheet is a version control system.
Yes, we invoice in INR with GST for Indian clients.
That is the only approach that works. Estimating knowledge sits with your people; our job is to give it a structure that does not lose information between bids.
By job title
The same people do all of this. We keep a separate page per specialism for New Delhi because the work each one generates here genuinely differs — and because the job title you search under changes what you find.
Local or remote
There are good reasons to hire someone in New Delhi, and we would rather set them out than pretend otherwise.
For a workshop, a training session, or a discovery process across several departments, physical presence genuinely helps. We work well over a call, but we will not pretend it is identical.
A local entity, local invoicing, local contract law. For some organisations — public sector especially — that is not negotiable, and no amount of rate advantage changes it.
If a file breaks at 10am and must work by 2pm, somebody in your time zone will usually beat somebody in ours. Our overnight turnaround is an advantage for planned work and a disadvantage for emergencies.
At a consultancy the person who sells the work and the person who writes it are often different people. Here they are the same person, and you have their name.
One local generalist covers whatever they happen to know. A small specialist team covers modelling, VBA, BI and Sheets properly. Which matters more depends entirely on what your file needs.
A local contractor in a major city typically charges several times a remote specialist's hourly rate for output a reviewer could not tell apart. That difference is the whole reason remote delivery exists.
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