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Every year, projects you were perfectly qualified to win are awarded to someone else — because you never knew they existed. Put a number on what 'we found out too late' is really costing you.

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Why It Matters

What you don't know is costing you millions

Every year, projects you were perfectly qualified to win are awarded to someone else — because you never knew they existed.

By the time you make contact with an opportunity is the public RFP, you are starting the race from the back row.

Most teams dramatically underestimate this leak because missed projects are invisible by definition — nobody logs a CRM entry for a deal they never heard about.

It skews your strategy. Pipeline reviews based only on projects you saw make weak markets look empty rather than under-monitored.

It is fixable. A tracker covering 150+ countries and 200+ sectors surfaces projects at announcement and feasibility stage — while the field is still open.

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Revenue walks away silently: Six missed projects a year at a 25% win rate and $2M average value is $3M in expected revenue — every single year.
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It skews your strategy: Pipeline reviews based only on projects you saw make weak markets look empty rather than under-monitored.
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It is fixable: A tracker covering 150+ countries and 200+ sectors surfaces projects at announcement and feasibility stage — while the field is still open.
How It Works

Three steps to your number

01

Estimate your misses

Count relevant projects awarded in your markets last year that you discovered too late or not at all. Award announcements and competitor references are a quick audit source.

02

Apply your own economics

The calculator multiplies missed projects by your historical win rate, average contract value, and margin — no inflated industry averages.

03

Compare against the fix

See the expected loss next to the annual cost of the Global Project Tracker, and the return multiple of closing the gap.

Methodology & assumptions

The calculator applies your normal conversion economics to opportunities you never entered. It deliberately excludes second-order losses — pricing intelligence, partner selection, early specification influence — so the output is a conservative floor, not a stretch case.

Expected revenue missed = Missed projects × Win rate × Avg. contract value
Profit missed = Revenue missed × Profit margin
Return multiple = Profit missed ÷ Annual tracker investment
Use Cases

Who uses this calculator

EPC contractors

Quantify the pipeline cost of hearing about plants, grids, and projects after the prequalification window.

Equipment manufacturers

Estimate orders lost when specifications were written around a competitor before you knew the project existed.

Consultants & engineers

Measure advisory mandates missed because the owner had already appointed advisors.

FAQ

Your questions, answered

Run a simple award audit: list contract awards from the last 12 months in your sectors and countries (award notices, trade press, competitor press releases) and mark the ones you could have credibly bid but never pursued because you learned about them too late. Most teams doing this exercise for the first time find 5-15 qualified misses — before counting projects that never made the news they read.
Yes — this is a conservative assumption. It assumes you would have pursued the missed projects had you known about them in time, with the same win rate as projects you did pursue.
Any project in your target markets, sectors, and geographies that you could have bid but discovered after the prequalification window, RFP release, or specification stage.
A tracker covering 150+ countries and 200+ sectors surfaces projects at announcement and feasibility stage — while the field is still open, before specifications are written and competitors are entrenched.
No. The results are planning estimates based on your inputs and the stated assumptions — not a guarantee of business outcomes. Validate against your own pipeline data before budgeting.
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