help on bidding a job

["Sylvia Breau" <sylvia -at- xann -dot- com>]

Hi,

Perhaps some more experienced voices can supply some words of wisdom.

I need to give a client a quote on a job, and I don't know what a reasonable
amount would be for the project. The job is to create a small online Help
file for a proprietary software. The client already wrote the bulk of the
instructions for the software. He did this in Word and sent the document to
me.

I need to do a fair amount of editing on what he wrote, (the document is
about twenty pages long) and then I need to put the whole thing into a Help
file. I'll probably use Microsoft HTML Help.

While I've done this work before, I've never done it in a situation where I
had to make the bid. Would you do something like this hourly, or would you
quote a flat rate? For a mostly written Help file of this size, what would a
reasonable amount be?

Thanks so much for your input.

Sylvia Breau




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