How Cost/Price Works

To successfully work with the Cost/Price feature in Symphony, complete these steps:

1. Start in My Company

Please Start in My Company and use the Cost/Price button from the left navigation menu (See Figure 1). It is below Business Factors. 

Figure 1. The pricing information section in My Company

2. Provide the Cost/Price Requirements

The Cost/Price link will prompt you to upload the completed pricing spreadsheet provided by the corresponding Solicitation and a Basis of Estimate (OASIS+) or Labor Rate Attestation (Alliant 3) to support the Cost/Price methodology (See Figure 2). 

1. Symphony is looking for an Excel template and a PDF document. 
   • Only one Spreadsheet may be provided.
   • Do not remove columns or rows.
   • Pricing data must be complete in accordance with the solicitation.
     
     
2. Select the checkbox to certify your claim and save your changes. 

Figure 2. Pricing Information Upload Window

Only one cost/price submission may be provided for a solicitation from the offeror. 

• You can view, edit, or delete documents as needed by following the same process as Business Factors (See Claiming Business Factors for information on unlocking a claim for changes).
• There is no option to add pricing at the Team Member level. 
• Symphony will provide any validation errors in your submission for the corresponding Solicitation. 

3. Validate Your Pricing Information

When the solicitation(s) are open to proposals on the Dashboard, you can "Start your Submission" or "Continue your Submission" to complete your proposal in multiple sittings or review it before submission. 

Using the Live Score button or Review Tab helps you see if your proposal is ready for submission (See Figure 3). If your pricing information does not meet requirements, Symphony will display messages on these screens. 

Figure 3. Methods for Reviewing Your Proposal Submission 

The error messages are only advisories and will not prevent you from submitting.

• If Symphony is "unable to load the Pricing File", the file is password-protected. 
• If the number of files is incorrect, more than one Excel spreadsheet is uploaded. 
• If the Basis Of Estimate (OASIS+) is missing, please upload the required information on Indirect Rates.
• If the Labor Rate Attestation (Alliant 3) is missing, please upload the information as required by the solicitation.
• The most recent template is not uploaded if the number of rows or columns is incorrect. 
• If the number of sheets is incorrect, please verify that the file you upload includes only the sheets in the template without any additions or subtractions. Using a spreadsheet application besides Excel and exporting to .xlsx format, will sometimes add a summary sheet. Making updates to the summary sheet export setting will remove the extra sheet. 
• If the data cannot be validated for some other reason, formatting changes may be present due to using the copy/paste functions on the template. 

Additional Information

There are no restricted viewing roles in Symphony once a user has an active status. 

• A Symphony administrator can remove account access for users who no longer need it by changing their status from Active to Initial. This will put them back in a pending approval state without removing their account. 
• Uploading sensitive information could be the last thing to complete before submission so no other users can access the system. 

• Once the Solicitation deadline occurs, all assets are frozen so that changes can later be made in My Company without affecting the submission (See Submitting an Open Market Proposal). 
• Symphony may be temporarily unavailable when a solicitation deadline occurs so your assets are saved. 
• You can delete files after the solicitation deadline. 

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