Cost Scopes option is used by the Administrator to define the various components of costing. For example, for technical content, you can define the Cost Scope as follows: new words, fuzzy matches, 100% or golden matches and repetitions. This Cost Scope can then be used to define a cost model when adding vendors. Each vendor has rates defined for each of the Cost Scope’s brackets for each language direction that they supply. These rates are applied to the TM analysis word counts to generate quote statistics. The tasks involved in managing Cost Scopes are: