Bidding process Best Practice of part manufacturers

Hello,

Bidding process of part manufacturers are very important. Especially calculating the cost of machining process. This is very related to engineers experience and know-how. This process is multi disciplinary process includes fabrication and process planning.

Is there an application or best practice to calculate that cost based on templates, data similarities, custom applications by "knowledge and know-how" or even AI tool.

Thx, Ali