Each team checks its own requirements
Mechanics, electronics, software: everyone rates only their part, with one click.
Requirements review →RFQ analysis: 64 pages in.
4 questions out.
Your RFQ, clarified before you quote.
Cevelar finds what the request leaves open and turns it into questions for your customer, each with its page. You answer in days instead of weeks, price what is really asked, and skip the surprises after the order.
4.1 OPERATING CONDITIONS
Operate reliably at the installation site.
7.3 TRANSPORT TESTS
Transport tests to the applicable UN regulation.
9.2 ABUSE TESTS
Abuse tests on representative samples.
COMPARED WITH SIMILAR PROGRAMMES
Insulation resistance after damp heat · not in this request
Q01 · p. 12
Which temperature range applies on site?
Q02 · p. 31
Which edition of UN 38.3 applies?
Q03 · p. 48
How many samples for the abuse tests?
Q04 · NOT IN REQUEST
Is insulation resistance after damp heat required?
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From link to answer in three clicks.
Your engineers spend their time on the answers, not on searching 64 pages for what is missing.
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Drop the request
PDF, Word or your customer's e-mail. No account to set up. Customer and project come from the document itself.
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Watch the questions appear
Each one with the quoted sentence, the page, and what it changes in your offer.
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Send them back
Copy as e-mail or export to Excel, sorted by what each answer changes.
The list you send back.
Sorted by what each answer changes, with the page next to every question. Your customer sees exactly where to look.
Answer while the request is warm
Your questions go out while others are still reading. The customer sees a supplier who understood the request.
Quote on facts, not assumptions
Open points are settled before the price is. No buffer for what nobody asked, no gap you pay for later.
No surprises after the order
Every question, its page and the answer stay on record. When scope is discussed later, you both look at the same list.
Abuse tests shall be performed on representative samples.
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All 4High cost effect 2Not in request 1
Q03How many samples do you expect for the abuse tests?
Changes sample count and costp. 48
Changes sample count and costp. 48
Q01Which temperature range applies on site?
Changes thermal tests and lab timep. 12
Changes thermal tests and lab timep. 12
Q04Is insulation resistance after damp heat required?
Changes the test planNOT IN REQUEST
Changes the test planNOT IN REQUEST
Q02Which edition of UN 38.3 applies?
Changes test scopep. 31
Changes test scopep. 31
The scope stays clear, revision after revision.
Drop the reply or the revised specification into the same project. Cevelar shows what is closed, and what the answers made newly open. So you adjust your offer before you commit, not after.
REPLY FROM CUSTOMER · 2847-B REV. 2
3 closed
Temperature range, UN 38.3 edition and sample count are answered.
Temperature range, UN 38.3 edition and sample count are answered.
1 newly open
The site range now goes down to −30 °C. Is charging below 0 °C required? No test covers it yet.
The site range now goes down to −30 °C. Is charging below 0 °C required? No test covers it yet.
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“Two weeks of one person, full time, doing nothing but estimates.”
Managing director, electronics manufacturer, on answering customer requests
With Cevelar, those weeks go into the answers that win the order.
RFQ analysis by hand and with Cevelar
Estimate for one typical request, from an automotive engineering service provider. Engineering time only, Cevelar fees not included.
| By hand | With Cevelar | |
|---|---|---|
| Engineers involved | 2 to 3 | 2 |
| Time to answer | 2 to 3 weeks | 2 days |
| Engineering days | 20 to 45 | 4 |
| Engineering cost | €20,000 to €45,000 | €4,000 |
Your numbers depend on the size of the request. We work them out with you on one of your own requests.
The request is the first link.
The requirements found here are the ones your review, your test plan and later your evidence start from. Same project, same sources, so what you find today is still there at the audit.
A test plan with cost for your offer
Tests, sequence, samples and cost, from the same requirements.
Test plan with cost →Every requirement at its evidence
Clause, test report and the page of the original request, linked both ways.
Traceability and audit →Cevelar is an engineering company from Berlin for requirements and validation. We work with suppliers and engineering service providers in rail, automotive and energy across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
What is an RFQ analysis?
An RFQ analysis is the first careful read of a customer request before you quote. It finds what the request leaves open, what contradicts itself and what drives cost, so you can ask the right questions back. Cevelar returns these questions with the page they come from.
How long does an RFQ analysis take by hand?
Teams we work with describe one to three weeks of engineering time per request, often one person full time. Most of that time goes into finding what is missing, not into answering it.
Which documents can Cevelar read?
PDF, Word files and e-mails from your customer, including tables and cross references inside them.
What happens when the customer answers?
You drop the reply or the revised specification into the same project. Cevelar shows which questions are now closed and which new ones the answers raised.
Does Cevelar replace our requirements tool?
No. Cevelar works next to it. It reads the customer's documents before they become requirements in your tool, and hands results back as Excel or an exchange file.
Who sees our customer's documents?
Only your team and the Cevelar engineers on your project. Data is processed in the EU and never used for other customers.
Who is behind Cevelar?
Cevelar Technologies UG is based in Berlin and was founded in 2026 by Nils Flagmeier, eleven years in battery testing and validation, and Max Beitler, product and systems. More about Cevelar
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Send it to us. You get the questions back, each with its page.