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Articles on your price. You read how to build up a cost price, markups and an hourly rate, and how to stop your margin disappearing over the contract term. Also: how price indexation in a contract works and which CBS series fits your costs.
- PricingCost per hour: how to work out what an hour of work really costs youFrom gross hourly wage to rate for cleaning, security and other labour-intensive services: premiums, unpaid hours, turnover, shift length, contract costs and term. With a worked example and a way to check after the award whether your costing holds.November 2026 · 14 min read
- PricingPricing a proposal: cost price, markups and hourly rateHow to price a proposal for business services: calculating cost price, markups for overhead, risk and profit, working out an hourly rate, fixed price or time and materials, and how to present the price in your proposal.November 2026 · 10 min read
- PricingCBS indices for price indexation: which series, which figure, which monthHow indexation with a Dutch CBS figure works, which series you meet in contracts (CPI, collective wages, contractual labour costs, producer prices), which month and figure counts, and what changed in 2026.October 2026 · 6 min read
- PricingPrice indexation: how to stop your margin disappearing over the contract termWhat the CPI is, which indices Statistics Netherlands (CBS) publishes, which indexation methods are common, and how to build a shrinking margin into your pricing, even when you do not know how long the contract will run.October 2026 · 7 min read
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- GuideEuropean public tenders: the complete guideFrom finding a tender to the award, in seven phases. All our articles on European public tenders, in the order you need them.
- GuideProposals and private tenders: the complete guideFrom RFP to signed contract, in five phases. All our articles on proposals and private tenders, in the order you need them.
- Free calculatorPrice indexation: how much margin does it cost you?The gap between your costs and the contract’s indexation over the term, and the starting price that closes it.
- Free calculatorWhat does a bid cost you today?Hours per role times cost per hour, per bid, per year and per contract won.
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