The pricing benchmark shows the winning-price distribution for comparable lots — assembled from published Find a Tender and Contracts Finder award notices, normalised and indexed — beside a bottom-up cost floor built from your own labour-load model and pricing workbook.
Where the benchmark comes from
Award notices name a winner and a value. To compare them WayWiser turns each award into a price per unit — £ per m² per year, per bed, per pupil, per unit or per site — using a denominator from a statutory dataset (NHS ERIC floor areas, HESA estates data, the Regulator of Social Housing's unit counts, local-authority asset registers) or from the estate metrics captured out of an ITT. Every row says how its denominator was obtained and carries a confidence; an imputed denominator is the lowest confidence and always flagged. Prices are indexed to the current year.
Rows are aggregated: no customer's own pricing is shown to another.
The cost floor
The floor is built from two things loaded from your workbooks: a labour-load model (task times rolled up to an estate, giving FTE per 10,000 m²) and an S1 pricing workbook (rated roles with hours and salary or hourly rate). Both are loaded on request by your WayWiser contact today; an in-app upload is planned.
When the floor cannot be built the card names what is missing rather than saying "upload your workbook": no models loaded, the labour-load model missing, the pricing workbook missing, the workbook loaded but its rates blank, no asset schedule to derive FTE from, or no cost per FTE derivable from the rated roles. A line the workbook has not priced reads "not yet priced" and contributes nothing to the floor — never £0.00.
Comparability
The comparability controls choose which awards count as comparable — buyer type, service line, region, value band — and the distribution updates with them. Fewer, closer comparables beat many loose ones.