Government Procurement Pricing Schedule - Sealed

Detects sealed pricing schedules submitted by tenderers as part of government procurement processes, held in confidence until evaluation is complete.

Type: document_marker
Engine: universal
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium confidence: several distinct prices next to pricing-schedule phrasing are specific; agency tender numbers are customer-defined, so the reference is a documented label-anchored fallback.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Financial Accountability Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: financial, government
Scope: wide
Risk rating: 8

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:pricing\s+schedule|price\s+schedule|schedule\s+of\s+rates|price\s+submission|financial\s+offer|commercial\s+submission|sealed\s+pricing|tender\s+price|lump\s+sum\s+price|bill\s+of\s+quantities)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

pricing schedule, price submission, financial offer, commercial submission, tender, procurement, RFT, RFP, pricing, rates, schedule of rates, lump sum, unit rate, sealed, confidential, commercial-in-confidence, PROTECTED, financial, fiscal, monetary (+27 more)

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE — SEALED PRICING. Pricing Schedule — RFT number: DTMR-2026-08912. Tenderer: ABC Construction Pty Ltd. Item 1: Site establishment — lump sum $1,200,000. Item 2: Concrete works — unit rate $450/m3. Item 3: Steel reinforcement — unit rate $2,800/tonne. Total tender price: $45,670,000. PROTECTED. — Sealed pricing schedule with line-item costs and tender reference (reaches 85)
Price Submission — Financial Offer. RFP number 2026-04417: ICT Managed Services. Schedule of Rates: Service Desk — $85/ticket. Desktop Support — $95/hour. Network Administration — $145/hour. Annual contract value: $8.2M. Commercial-in-confidence. Not to be disclosed to other tenderers. — IT services pricing schedule with hourly rates (reaches 85)
PROTECTED. Sealed Commercial Submission — Major Infrastructure Procurement, RFT 2025-11203. Tenderer pricing breakdown: Design phase $12.4M, Construction phase $234.5M, Commissioning $8.9M. This pricing is commercial-in-confidence and must remain sealed until evaluation committee review. — Major infrastructure sealed pricing with phase breakdown (reaches 85)
Schedule of rates — RFT 2026-0417 Network cabling services Tenderer: Harbour Networks Pty Ltd Item 1 Site survey: $1,250.00 Item 2 Cat6A outlet installed: $185.00/ea Item 3 Project management: $142.00/hr Total tender price: $418,960.00 Commercial-in-confidence — sealed pricing. — Populated record with price / score lines reaching 75 and 85 (reaches 85)
Schedule of rates Item 1 Site survey: $1,250.00 Item 2 Cat6A outlet installed: $185.00/ea Item 3 Project management: $142.00/hr — Three distinct prices with pricing phrasing, no tender reference or marker (reaches 75)

Should not match

Standing offer arrangement: Government ICT Panel. Published rates for Panel Category 1: $120-$180/hour depending on skill level. Available at QTenders. — Published standing offer rates — public pricing
Procurement Policy: How to prepare a pricing schedule for government tenders. Template with example line items and unit rate format. — Procurement template with example pricing format
Tenderers must complete the pricing schedule in the approved format and submit it with their response. Late submissions will not be accepted. See QTenders for the invitation documents. — Policy guidance naming the topic without any record (discovery only)
Pricing schedule — RFT number: __________ Item 1: $________ Item 2: $________ Total tender price: $________ — Blank pricing schedule (must stay below 75)
News: the department awarded the $45 million RFT 2025-1120 contract after the tender price came in under budget. — News article naming a tender and one price (must stay below 75)

Known false positives

Published standing offer arrangement rates and panel pricing Mitigation: Exclude documents containing 'standing offer', 'panel rates', 'published rates', 'available at QTenders'
Procurement templates showing pricing schedule formats Mitigation: Exclude documents containing 'template', 'example', 'how to prepare' without real pricing data