Benchmark your quote before you tender or renew.
Pick what you are buying, then check one line of a supplier quote against comparable public prices or compare the options. Where we hold no benchmark, you still get the scope review and the vendors.
Where we hold enough public prices
A band needs at least 5 prices from at least 3 independent sellers, none of them holding more than 60% of the prices. These packages and countries pass today:
- UPS, up to 1.5 kVA: Europe-wide
- UPS, 1.5 to 3.5 kVA: Europe-wide, France
- UPS, 3.5 to 12 kVA: Europe-wide
- Generator sets, up to 30 kVA: Europe-wide
- Rack PDUs, Metered: Europe-wide
- Server racks, 38 to 44 U: Europe-wide, France
Every other package and country: price benchmark unavailable, with the scope review and the vendors.
Price benchmark unavailable No package of this kind has a price band yet. A check still returns the scope review, the questions to ask and the vendors, marked price benchmark unavailable.
Price benchmark unavailable No package of this kind has a price band yet. A check still returns the scope review, the questions to ask and the vendors, marked price benchmark unavailable.
Compare options holds one preset today: security delivery models, on-site guarding against remote monitoring or a hybrid of the two.
Security delivery models
On-site guarding against remote monitoring for one site: the annual cost of each, the payback of the set-up and what each option leaves exposed. Hybrid is remote monitoring with hours still guarded on site above zero.
Guard pay starts at the public wage floor of each country. Wage floors are cost-model inputs, not contract prices.
A statistical benchmark, not a valuation or procurement advice; we take no commission.
Public prices read 18 Oct 2026.
ScienceShot calculation.
Cite this page
ScienceShot. (2026). Check a quote against public prices [Online calculator]. https://scienceshot.com/procurement
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