A system includes a remotely-located server implementing a metric server adapter, a metrics application, and a communication application. The metric server adapter includes governing logic that manages at least one evaluation service and a plurality of predefined instructions for managing metric data. The metrics application is a production application that operates in coordination with the metric server adapter. Receipt of a product specification data set triggers the metrics application to obtain metric data that includes market reference price data, evaluate attributes of each responsive item in the metric data to dynamically discover a difference in the attribute data, and contextually define transaction-specific instructions for adapting the metric data for the respective item. One or more adjustment values transform the market reference price data, and one or more evaluation metrics are communicated to the user-agent computing device.