Stop quoting yesterday's prices. Win the job and keep the margin.
Live merchant pricing across the five biggest UK builders' merchants — refreshed every morning. Build your quote against today's prices, not the figure your supplier rep gave you three months ago. See which merchant wins each line, and which wins the whole basket.
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Real savings, this morning's data
Same SKU, four supplier prices. The spread pays for the plan.
A snapshot of priority materials we track — cheapest supplier versus most expensive on a single morning's refresh.
| Material | Price spread | Cheapest at | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plasterboard 12.5mm 2400×1200 | £6.42 – £7.30 | Jewson | 13.7% |
| OSB3 18mm 2440×1220 | £24.80 – £28.20 | Selco | 13.7% |
| Celotex CW4000 100mm | £31.20 – £39.10 | Wickes | 25.3% |
| C16 4×2 CLS timber (per m) | £3.35 – £5.10 | Travis Perkins | 52.2% |
Prices ex-VAT, observed 06:34 UTC. Spread shown is genuine and updates every morning — we don't cherry-pick.
Five merchants, one comparison
Each merchant has its strengths. We tell you which is which.
The cheapest merchant on plasterboard isn't the cheapest on insulation. We surface the pattern, not just the price.
Jewson
Best on timber and aggregates
Travis Perkins
Best on heavy materials and bricks
Wickes
Best on insulation and small-bag aggregates
Selco
Best on sheet materials and PIR boards
Builders Depot
Best on bulk timber and CLS
What you get
Built for the way SME firms actually quote.
Big contractors have a procurement team and quarterly supplier negotiations. The rest of us call our usual merchant, take the quote, and hope it's competitive. HoPS gives you the procurement-team view at SME pricing — without the team.
- Live pricing across Jewson, Travis Perkins, Wickes, Selco and Builders Depot — refreshed every morning at 06:30 UTC
- Side-by-side supplier comparison for every priority material
- Basket calculator: build a quote, see which merchant wins the whole job
- Margin-killer alerts when a material we track jumps more than 5% in a week
- Commodity-driven forecast block — copper, Brent crude, GBP/USD context against your priority materials
- Unavailable-materials spotlight so you re-source before the project stalls
- Catalogue of 60+ tracked SKUs, expanding monthly based on customer requests
Forecast context
Lock pricing now, or wait a week? We give you the signal.
Every material we track is mapped to its underlying commodity driver — copper for cable and plumbing, oil for plastics and insulation, GBP/USD for everything imported. We pull LME-proxy metal prices, ICE Brent crude and ECB-anchored FX rates every morning, then bucket your priority materials by whether their driver is rising, stable, or falling. So when a homeowner says “hold the quote for two weeks”, you know whether that's a margin opportunity or a margin risk.
Daily
Commodity refresh, 06:00 UTC
5
Indices tracked: Cu, Brent, GBP/USD, GBP/EUR, more soon
60+
Priority materials mapped to drivers
Win the next quote on price and margin.
Materials ships with the Growth and Pro plans. Subscribe now to unlock live merchant pricing, the basket calculator, and the forecast block.