One of the main items that you need to consider when preparing Tender Document is how the tenderer(s) interprets the contents of the document for them to prepare proposal for the said tender. Additional to that the specifications shall be précised, so the tenderer can do the comparison “Apple to Apple” . In easy word is the price quoted shall be for an Apple and not for Banana or else. That’s why when you do the big project you’ll have to hire Quantity Surveyor or other professional consultant to do it for you,

When I look at the comparison given nowdays for fuel prices … it’s B**lsh*t . We can’t compare the fuel price with our neigbouring country which don’t have oil/gas reserve. We have to compare ’Apple with Apple’…..  but sadly that’s always happened, we compared the price with Thailand and Singapore.

But let us see …  WE SHOULD COMPARE THE PRICES TO THIS….