Materials sourcing request

Materials quotation marketplace

Prepare a clear materials list — description, specification, unit, quantity and your own budget rate — then ask Serene Creations to source quotations on your behalf. You get a tidy request with transparent totals, and our team goes to the market for you.

What this page is — and is not. This is a request workspace, not a live supplier marketplace. No supplier names, stock levels, delivery promises, market prices or verification are shown or invented here. Any rate you type is your own budget assumption. Offers, availability and delivery are confirmed by our team after you send your list.

Everything you type stays in this browser unless you choose to send it. No account or sign-up is needed to prepare a list.

How the request flows

  1. 1

    Build your materials list

    Add each item with a specification, unit and quantity. Add a waste percentage and your own budget rate if you have one.

  2. 2

    See requested quantities & totals

    Requested quantity includes waste. Trade and category totals, delivery allowance and optional VAT are shown transparently — with anything unpriced left visible, never hidden.

  3. 3

    Send it to Serene to source

    From a button you click, the list goes to our team as a real enquiry. We then approach suppliers and come back with actual offers.

Sourcing and procurement support is quoted before you commit to anything. Sending a request costs nothing.

A note on quantities

Prepare your list from your own measured or specified materials — for example from a supplier's packaging or your own takeoff. If you need structural steel sizing or rebar detailing, that is a professional design service we quote separately; this workspace does not measure or design reinforcement.

Materials categories

Start from a category

Each card filters your list to that category, and the plus button adds an empty row already set to it. These are your own categories for organising a request — they are not supplier stock or a catalogue.

Step 1 — your list

Materials request list

Type your own items. Waste % defaults to 0. A budget rate is optional — leave it blank if you would rather leave pricing entirely to the quotations we source.

Materials request line items
Description Specification Category Unit Quantity Waste % Requested qty Budget rate (UGX) Row budget Remove

Rows missing a description, a quantity above 0 or a rate above 0 are marked pending and are excluded from priced totals — they are never silently dropped.

How each figure is worked out

Requested quantity = quantity × (1 + waste % ÷ 100).

Row budget = requested quantity × your budget rate. Rows with no usable rate contribute nothing.

Materials budget = the sum of row budgets for priced rows only.

VAT (if you enter a rate) applies to materials budget plus delivery allowance.

Your budget is kept separate from any supplier quotation we later obtain — the two are never mixed.

This is a preparation aid using the figures you enter. It is not a market rate, a quotation, a stock list or verified pricing.

Step 2 — your budget picture

Totals & transparent breakdown

These figures come only from what you typed. Your budget is shown separately from any supplier quotation, and every assumed figure is labelled as an assumption.

Category totals

Sum of priced row budgets, grouped by category.

Items in list 0
Items not yet priced / counted 0
Materials budget Your own budget rates × requested quantities UGX 0

Your allowance for transport or haulage. Actual delivery terms are confirmed by our team.

If you enter a rate it is applied to materials budget + delivery allowance. We do not assume a tax rate for you.

VAT (0%) UGX 0
Transparent total Materials + delivery + VAT you entered UGX 0

Your budget is not a supplier quotation. It uses your own assumed rates. When we source quotations, supplier offers are reported to you separately so you can compare them against your budget.

Step 3 — Save, export & print

Save on this device

Keep a working copy in this browser only. The copy is validated when you load it, and clearing removes just this workspace's saved copy.

Nothing is uploaded and no account is required.

Project file (JSON)

Export your list as a project file, or import one you saved earlier. Import validates the file, bounds every number and caps the row count before anything loads.

Spreadsheet & print

CSV export is UTF-8 and protects cells from spreadsheet formula injection. Optional CSV import is size-capped, row-capped and escaped. Printing opens your browser's dialog.

Columns: Description, Specification, Category, Unit, Quantity, Waste %, Budget rate (UGX). Max 400 rows / 400 KB.

Your list and saved copies live only in this browser on this device. We do not store your materials list on a server.

Step 4 — send your request

Ask Serene to source quotations

Sending this request is free. Our team takes your materials list to the market, gathers actual offers and reports back with what is genuinely available and at what price. Nothing here is a quotation until you receive real offers from us.

  • Your full item list — descriptions, specifications, quantities and waste — is attached to the enquiry.
  • Your budget total and its exclusions travel with the request, so we know what you have allowed for.
  • We come back to you by your chosen contact method. No automatic messages, no PII in any link.

Procurement & sourcing support

We can also run the sourcing for you end to end — supplier comparison, quantities reconciliation, delivery coordination and procurement paperwork. Fees for that service are quoted before you commit to anything. No payment is taken on this page.

Book a sourcing consultation

Prefer to message? Start a generic WhatsApp request — it opens a chat with no personal details pre-filled.

Materials sourcing request

Fields marked * are required. Your list is attached automatically from this workspace.

Delivery or pickup *

We only confirm receipt once the message has actually been delivered. Sourcing and procurement fees are quoted before any commitment, and no payment is collected on this page.