Introduction to Discovery (3/7): Pay attention to the details of "Unit Price"!Discovery support quote tricks that make a big loss if you don't know

The discovery cost estimate can be divided into three work processes: "pre-review work", "review work", and "translation work".At the estimation stage, it is not possible to determine how many documents should be reviewed in the end, so the estimate is often presented by "unit price" per amount of data, but cost control of discovery cost This "unit price" is important when doing this.This is because the amount of data on which the calculation cost is based differs depending on the vendor.

For example, suppose you get a quote from two vendors, company A and company B.

(XNUMX) Company A's estimate ... The unit price is high, but the basis for the calculation cost is "decompression."前File

(XNUMX) Company B's estimate ... The unit price is low, but the basis for the calculation cost is "decompression."LaterFile

It would be premature to choose company B simply because the unit price of company B is low.If the compressed data before the answer is used as the basis for calculation, the unit price will be higher than if the file after decompression is used as the basis for calculation.However, in most cases, the total number of files is larger after decompression than before decompression.Therefore, if you look at the overall cost, you can see that the estimate that multiplies the unzipped file by the unit price is higher.

① "High unit price" x "File before decompression"<② "Low unit price" x "File after decompression"

If you choose a discovery vendor based on unit price without knowing this trick, you will be surprised to see the total amount later.Some vendors, like Company B, dare to give a cheap quote the first time and keep out competitors.

Pay attention to the part where the unit price is applied before and after decompressing the compressed file

Also, in the same example, even if the unit price is low, it is charged with the amount of data "before keyword search", so be careful.

There are numerous examples of this.When making an estimate, be sure to check which state (process) the data costs.

Pay attention to whether the unit price is multiplied before or after the keyword search

Estimate tells you "Nothing is more expensive than free"

Second, be careful of vendors with extremely low unit prices.This is because it is not accompanied by work quality and often incurs additional costs.

As is often said, review costs account for the largest proportion of discovery costs.Nevertheless, some overseas vendors do not calculate the review cost and only estimate the work before the review, and the unit price may be as good as free.Even if the cost of pre-review work is kept low, it does not include review work, resulting in unexpected costs.

The work before the review is very important, but if the unit price is lowered and the work quality is also lowered, the work after the review will be complicated. For review work using a high-tech technology called "predictive coding"　Introduction to Discovery (2/7): Three essential questions for selecting a discovery venter　As mentioned in, predictive coding is not possible without accurate pre-review work.

By the way, companies that use proprietary predictive coding do not offer a service that only undertakes predictive coding after other vendors perform pre-review work.This is because the work of other vendors is unreliable in the first place, which reduces the accuracy of predictive coding.

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