Introduction to Discovery (6/7): The key to controlling costs is the estimate check (Part 2)

"Introduction to Discovery (6/7): The key to controlling costs is the estimate check (Part 1)”, I have explained the cost breakdown of each process by comparing it with the estimate.

Think of the quotes in the example as those of a conscientious vendor.Only a limited number of vendors have submitted such detailed quotes, and most vendors will have few quotes and will only list the "set of work" amount.

In addition, there are many vendors who do not describe the amount of money as "unit price x estimated amount" but only offer the unit price.

You need to understand the "trick" that these vendors often use.

For quotations that do not include an estimated amount, you will simply select a vendor by comparing unit prices.

Considering only the price, it is reasonable to choose the cheaper one,The problem is its accuracy.

"Introduction to Discovery (6/7): The key to controlling costs lies in the quote check (Part 1)The series of processes (1) to (7) mentioned in "" are all connected.Therefore, the quality of work in the initial process such as collection, process, and hosting is directly linked to the overall review quality.If the narrowing down is insufficient, the number of files to be reviewed will increase, and the translation work will also increase.

For example, in the process process, if the Japanese character code is supported as shown in the figure and supported by a bilingual expert, the number of files to be reviewed can be reduced to about two-fifths (5 GB → 2 GB).On the other hand, in process work where technical capabilities are uncertain, such as only Unicode support, the cost increases due to garbled characters and translation required after the process and at the stage of keyword search, etc., and the files to be reviewed are selected. It cannot be narrowed down.

In other words, if the technology and quality of the process process is inferior, the cost of review will increase further.

From a cost management perspective, it's more important to keep review costs down than to reduce process costs.

It is said that the ratio of review costs to the total discovery costs is about 7%, and the remaining 3% is for work such as collection, hosting, and processes.No matter how much this 3% is compressed, if the remaining 7% increases, the overall cost will be rather high.

Why is there a difference in cost?

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