ROI Calculator
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Build your business case

What would your pipeline look like
if every bid was your best bid?

When contracts run to hundreds of millions — or billions — the intelligence behind every submission matters more than the number of submissions. Blue Edge AI sharpens knowledge recall, strengthens competitive positioning, and protects high-value opportunities from compliance risk.

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Your current bid position
A snapshot of how you bid today
Bid team sizeNumber of Blue Edge AI licences
Bids per year (current)Total bids your team works on annually
Average contract valueEnter in £m — e.g. 75 for £75m, 1000 for £1bn ?Use a weighted average across your portfolio. A mix of £50m lots and £500m programmes will sit somewhere in between. Model each tier separately for the most accurate picture.
£
million
Current win rate% of bids you win today
%
Typical project marginNet margin on a won contract ?Large infrastructure typically 2–5% net. Specialist contracting and engineering services 5–12%. Use net margin, not gross.
%
Capacity & intelligence uplift
Two engines — model each independently
Bid capacity multiplierHow many more bids your team can process with the same headcount
2.0x
1.2xConservative: 2x4x
Client evidence: Teams using Blue Edge AI report processing up to 3x more bids with the same team. 2x is the conservative default.
Win rate improvementPercentage point increase from better quality, knowledge recall, and strategic alignment. Default is 0 — adjust if you want to model this effect.
+0%
0%Conservative: +3%+15%
Client evidence: Clients consistently report higher quality evaluation scores through better knowledge recall and responses aligned to evaluator criteria. This engine is set to 0 by default — increase it to model the quality effect if you have evidence from your own submissions.
Compliance & quality risk
Shown separately — not included in the ROI headline
Bids per year affected by compliance or quality issuesDisqualifications, material quality deductions, or bids withdrawn. Shown as a separate protection figure.
1
01 bid/year10
Why kept separate: Compliance failure is real but binary and hard to model as a steady annual rate. This figure shows the pipeline value at risk — it is not added to the ROI multiple, so the headline remains fully auditable.
Licence cost
Used to calculate your ROI multiple
Annual licence cost per userContact Blue Edge AI for your pricing
£
Your business case
Based on capacity uplift — win rate engine at 0 by default
Additional wins per year
—
capacity + quality engines
Additional pipeline
—
contract value per year
Additional profit
—
at your stated margin
Break-even
—
to recover full licence cost
What this means
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How the result is built
Capacity — more bids submittedSame team, more opportunities pursued
—
Intelligence — win rate improvementSet win rate slider above 0 to model this
£0
Combined additional profit per year
—
ROI multiple (profit ÷ licence cost) —
Risk protection — shown separately not in ROI headline
Pipeline value at risk annually —
Profit at risk annually —

Blue Edge AI reduces this exposure through structured compliance checking and consistent quality standards. One prevented disqualification on a bid of this size typically recovers the platform cost many times over.

Engine 1 — Capacity: extra bids × current win rate × contract value × margin. Engine 2 — Intelligence: projected bids × win rate improvement × contract value × margin; defaults to 0 — user opts in. ROI: combined profit ÷ total annual licence cost; shown as a secondary figure because at large contract values it will always be high — the break-even is the more useful audit number. Risk protection: at-risk bids × win rate × contract value × margin; excluded from ROI as compliance failure is binary and hard to model as a steady rate.

PDF generated in your browser. Results are indicative estimates. Actual outcomes will vary. All figures GBP.