I have been running a my own firm for a about a year and genrall act as a data systems consultant. A stray comment about three months ago has led me to be creating a computer archive of videos held in stock for a local video shop. The shop has recently changed hands and the owner is looking to invest some money in improving it.

I'm going to cut and past my basic summery of the job into this post. What I need to do is come up with a price that is fair. I will probably discount them on data entry labour and so forth and forego the usuall consultancy fee's

Please leave suggestions in UK POUNDS (£) if at all possible.

Quote one
Video Database with:
Tables
· Film
· Format
· Director
· Actors
· Price Band

Must also be able to:
· Be searchable
· Store pictures
· Determine Price banding

Also Required:
Limited Data entry until client data entry training is complete. Approximately 12 Hours in total.


Quote Two

Public Use Front-End

Given the database system has been created a front-end for public use is also required. It must enable customer to search by different criteria and view images of the video covers and / or read the text that has been entered into the system. The interface must be so simple as to require no training at all.


Quote Three
As an alternative to Quote Two.
The system contains the details of image files and a free type text field semi-formatted as HTML.

A VB form carrying the Internet Explorer Object to allow a highly controlled display of (ASP) web pages produced by Microsoft’s My Personal Web Server. The ASP system would need to take care of some conditional formatting of content and would need to allow for a fully functional search system to display results from the database. The system will need to be robust with no outside links and simple enough that a customer can use it without ever having been shown how.


So there you have it what would you charge? Your advice will be greatly apriciated.