Responding to a timber framing tender (public & private contracts, EU 2026)

Timber framers, timber-frame constructors and structure fabricators are regular bidders for public procurement and structured private clients (social landlords, property funds, local authorities, estate managers, public contracting authorities). Five categories of contracts stand out.

• Traditional carpentry and industrial trussed rafters: a "timber framing" lot within new construction (school, sports hall, housing, agricultural building).
• Timber construction and timber-frame walls: load-bearing structures, frame walls, timber floors and roofs for bio-based buildings (schools, nurseries, offices).
• Loft and roof renovation: re-framing, loft conversion, reinforcement of existing structures (social landlord, condominium, university).
• Heritage contracts: restoration of historic timber frames, listed buildings and monuments, requiring specific skills and suitable timber species.
• Call-off framework agreements: recurring timber framing and structure works across a property portfolio, triggered by successive orders over 1 to 4 years.

Across the EU the logic is identical in all 27 member states: a public operator publishes above the European thresholds on TED, below them on its national platform. An established timber framer may bid for a cross-border contract subject to freedom of establishment and recognition of qualifications.

The first challenge is the price schedule. In timber framing, each line combines a supply (solid timber, glulam, cross-laminated timber CLT, OSB or plywood panels, metal connectors, joist hangers, brackets, screws and structural hardware) from a supplier catalog, and labor expressed as hours × hourly rate, split between workshop fabrication and on-site erection. The BoQ must aggregate hundreds of consistent lines, with overheads, margin and contingency. A unit error (lm vs m³ vs each), a missing connector or an unsourced price distorts the price score — often 40 to 60% of the overall score.

The second challenge is the technical proposal. The buyer scores technical value on precise criteria: workshop-fabrication and on-site lifting methodology, structural performance and design justification to Eurocode 5, timber treatment and durability (use classes, preservation, species selection), timber origin and certification (PEFC/FSC, local timber), safety and work at height, fabrication schedule and lead times, human and material resources, environmental and low-carbon approach. A generic proposal copied from one tender to another is penalized: you must answer the consultation rules criterion by criterion.

The third challenge is administrative: qualifications (timber-framing/structure trade qualifications, specific endorsements), proof of decennial insurance, and the ESPD/DUME for EU public procurement. False or expired documents lead to rejection — and even criminal penalties for false statements.

The assistant starts from the tender: you upload the tender file (PDF), it extracts the buyer, object, lots, award criteria and weighting, and the buyer's language. The technical proposal is then structured to develop the most heavily weighted criteria first (fabrication and lifting methodology, structural performance to Eurocode 5, treatment and durability, certified timber, resources, references), in the contract's language.

For the price schedule, you import your supplier catalogs (structural timber, panels, connectors and hardware) in Excel, CSV or PDF, and enter your rates: workshop fabrication time, erection and lifting time, labor hourly rate, overheads, margin, contingency, travel. The assistant computes each line (quantity × unit price excl. VAT from the catalog or time × rate), applies VAT and totals, and exports an editable Excel BoQ. No price is invented: an item without a source is marked "to complete".

• Technical proposal structured around the tender's award criteria.
• Costed BoQ from your timber catalogs + fabrication and erection times (Excel export).
• Pre-filled ESPD/DUME draft for EU public procurement.
• Deliverables in PDF, editable Word and Excel, in the buyer's language.
• Your catalogs and times stay confidential, reusable across tenders.

You stay in control: the assistant produces a solid base that you verify, complete with your real references and sign before submission. It replaces neither your expertise, nor legal advice, nor a structural design office — it removes the hours of formatting and calculation where the risk of error is highest.

A controlled response follows a stable sequence, whether the contract is public or private, in France or elsewhere in the EU.

• Monitoring: spot relevant timber framing/structure tenders on the platforms (TED, buyer profiles).
• Tender analysis: object, lots, award criteria and weighting, deadlines, required documents.
• Go/no-go decision: workshop fabrication capacity, lifting capacity, similar references, workload, achievable timber lead times.
• Costing: BoQ from timber + hardware catalogs + fabrication and erection times, with overheads, margin and contingency.
• Technical proposal: answer the criteria item by item, workshop/lifting methodology, structural justification to Eurocode 5, treatment and durability, certified timber, schedule.
• Administrative documents: ESPD/DUME, timber-framing/structure qualifications, certificates.
• Electronic submission before the deadline, with e-signature where required.

The BoostPro IA assistant handles steps 4 to 6 — the most time-consuming and riskiest — producing proposal, BoQ and DUME in under ten minutes from your real data. You focus your time on strategy (price, differentiation, references, species selection) rather than formatting.