Patent ID: 8635139

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to: receive a product specification data set that includes one or more items; receive one or more price data sets, wherein each price data set includes one or more items and corresponding price data that are responsive to one or more of the items in the product specification data set, and wherein at least one price data set includes at least one item having a parameter value that is different than the parameter value of the item in the product specification data set and/or another price data set; and for each price data set: obtain metric data from at least one source for each item in the price data set, wherein the metric data includes one or more market reference prices for the items in the price data set; and using the metric data, calculate a market value of each item in the price data set for comparison to the price data in the price data set.