Responding to an ornamental plasterer tender (staff, stucco, decorative plasterwork, EU 2026)

Ornamental plasterers, stucco workers and decorative plasterers are regular bidders for finishing and restoration contracts, whether public (authorities, the State, cultural institutions) or private (architects, project managers, heritage owners, high-end hospitality). Several families of contracts stand out.

• New decorative works in staff or stucco: cornices, mouldings, ceiling roses, columns, friezes, decorative cladding in a prestige construction or renovation.
• Ceilings and cornices: creating or restoring moulded ceilings, coffers, coving and cornices in heritage or contemporary buildings.
• Heritage and listed-monument restoration: like-for-like reproduction of plaster, stucco and staff decoration, under the supervision of the heritage architect (in France, the Architecte des Bâtiments de France, ABF).
• Theatres, museums, opera houses and places of worship: restoration of ornamental interior decoration, often on lots with strong heritage requirements.
• Restoration and rehabilitation contracts: "staff", "stucco" or "decorative plasterwork" lots within broader restoration operations.
• Finishing lots: ornaments and decoration integrated into a second-fix contract (plasterwork, painting, interior finishing).

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 ornamental plasterer may bid for a cross-border contract subject to freedom of establishment and recognition of qualifications and heritage references.

The first challenge is the price schedule. In staff and ornamentation, each line combines materials (plaster, plant or glass fibres, prefabricated staff, stucco, reinforcement) with workshop labour (moulding, casting, drying) and installation labour. Costing is rarely done in raw quantity but often per unit of work (a ceiling rose, a linear metre of cornice, a coffer) integrating mould-making, casting and installation. The BoQ must aggregate consistent decorative works, with overheads, margin and contingency. A unit error (lm vs each), a missing item (mould, scaffolding, drying) or an unsourced price distorts the price score.

The second challenge is the technical proposal. The buyer scores technical value on precise criteria: moulding and installation methodology, like-for-like restoration capacity (survey, counter-moulding, reproduction of an existing decoration), craftsmanship and similar heritage references, compliance with heritage-architect prescriptions and listed-monument requirements, supply of samples or prototypes, schedule, human and material workshop resources. A generic proposal copied from one tender to another is penalized: you must answer the consultation rules criterion by criterion and concretely demonstrate restoration craftsmanship.

The third challenge is administrative and heritage-related: qualifications, references for comparable restoration projects, certificates, and the ESPD/DUME for EU public procurement. On listed monuments, specific requirements (intervention under heritage-architect supervision, restoration qualifications) may condition admissibility. 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 (moulding and installation methodology, like-for-like restoration capacity, heritage references, resources), in the contract's language. You alone enter your real references for comparable projects.

For the price schedule, you import your material costs (plaster, fibres, staff, stucco) and enter your times and rates: workshop time (moulding, casting, drying), installation time, labour hourly rate, overheads, margin, contingency. The assistant computes each line per unit of work or per linear metre (quantity × material cost + 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, with craftsmanship and like-for-like restoration highlighted.
• Costed BoQ per unit of work / per lm from your material costs + workshop and installation times (Excel export).
• Pre-filled ESPD/DUME draft for EU public procurement.
• A framework to showcase your heritage references (you alone supply the real completed works).
• Deliverables in PDF, editable Word and Excel, in the buyer's language.
• Your costs and rates stay confidential, reusable across tenders.

You stay in control: the assistant produces a solid base that you verify, complete with your real references and samples, and sign before submission. It replaces neither your ornamental craftsmanship nor legal advice — 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 staff/stucco/decorative-plasterwork and restoration tenders on the platforms (TED, buyer profiles).
• Tender analysis: object, lots, award criteria and weighting, heritage requirements (heritage architect, listed monuments), deadlines, required documents and samples.
• Go/no-go decision: workshop capacity, similar restoration references, workload, achievable deadlines.
• Costing: BoQ per unit of work / per lm from material costs + workshop and installation times, with overheads, margin and contingency.
• Technical proposal: answer the criteria item by item, moulding and installation methodology, like-for-like restoration, heritage references, samples.
• Administrative documents: ESPD/DUME, qualifications, comparable-project references, 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, showcasing your heritage references) rather than formatting.