How do you calculate a quote price?

Multiply order volume by the unit rate and the margin/capture factor, then add the fixed charge. For 100 units at $45, 80% factor and $250 fixed, the quote is $3,850, or $38.50 per unit.

What is the capture factor in a quote?

Here it scales the variable rate — for margin, discount, or expected-yield adjustment. At 80% of $4,500 in gross variable value, the captured figure is $3,600 before the fixed charge.

How should I set the fixed charge in a quote?

Load tooling, NRE, and setup you want recovered on this order into it. The $250 fixed charge adds $2.50 per unit across 100 pieces and a larger share on small orders.

What is a good per-unit quote price for flex circuits?

It must clear your fully loaded cost plus target margin. $38.50 per unit works only if your combined labor, material, rework, and overhead per panel sits meaningfully below it.

Quote price vs cost per panel?

Cost per panel is what you spend to build; quote price is what you charge. The gap is your margin — this tool sets the price side so you can check that gap deliberately.

How do I make quotes more consistent across estimators?

Fix the rate, factor, and fixed-charge conventions so every estimator builds the same way. That turns $38.50 into a repeatable, auditable number instead of a personal guess.

Printed Electronics & Flexible Hybrid Electronics calculator

Quote Price Calculator

Quote Price builds a defensible customer price for a printed or flex-hybrid job by combining a per-unit rate, a margin or capture factor, and a fixed job charge into a total and per-unit figure. In FHE contract manufacturing, where NRE, tooling, and thin material margins collide, a consistent quoting method keeps bids competitive without giving away margin. Sales engineers and estimators use it to turn cost inputs into a price they can defend line by line. It matters because inconsistent, gut-feel quoting is how shops win unprofitable work and lose the profitable jobs.

What this calculator does

Quote Price builds a defensible customer price for a printed or flex-hybrid job by combining a per-unit rate, a margin or capture factor, and a fixed job charge into a total and per-unit figure.
Use it when quote price in printed electronics and flexible hybrid electronics is being put through a printed electronics and flexible hybrid electronics weighted-cost review.
It computes a total quote and a per-unit price from order volume, a unit rate, a margin/capture factor, and a fixed job charge.

Formula used

Quote Price cost = quantity × rate × capture factor + fixed cost
Per-unit quote price = total cost ÷ quantity

Inputs explained

Order volume quoted:
Unit price basis rate:
Margin capture factor:
Tooling and NRE fixed charge:

How to use the result

Use it when responding to an RFQ or setting a price sheet for a printed or flex-hybrid panel product.
It is a single-line pricing model; complex quotes with tiered volume breaks or separate NRE and recurring pricing need to be built up from several runs.

Current U.S. benchmarks

The producer price index for copper and brass mill shapes stands at 559.593 (BLS, May 2026), up 76.8% from a year earlier. Quotes priced off last quarter's material cost miss this move. Global copper trades at $13,484 per tonne (IMF via FRED, May 2026).
The U.S. has 11,261 computer and electronic products establishments employing about 815,443 workers (Census County Business Patterns, 2023).

Common questions

How do you calculate a quote price? Multiply order volume by the unit rate and the margin/capture factor, then add the fixed charge. For 100 units at $45, 80% factor and $250 fixed, the quote is $3,850, or $38.50 per unit.
What is the capture factor in a quote? Here it scales the variable rate — for margin, discount, or expected-yield adjustment. At 80% of $4,500 in gross variable value, the captured figure is $3,600 before the fixed charge.
How should I set the fixed charge in a quote? Load tooling, NRE, and setup you want recovered on this order into it. The $250 fixed charge adds $2.50 per unit across 100 pieces and a larger share on small orders.
What is a good per-unit quote price for flex circuits? It must clear your fully loaded cost plus target margin. $38.50 per unit works only if your combined labor, material, rework, and overhead per panel sits meaningfully below it.
Quote price vs cost per panel? Cost per panel is what you spend to build; quote price is what you charge. The gap is your margin — this tool sets the price side so you can check that gap deliberately.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.