Bid readiness: can I bid on this?
Reads a tender's own documents and sorts what it asks of you into four groups, including the one that would rule you out.
Bid readiness is the tool that reads the tender documents so you do not have to read all of them first. It pulls every requirement it can find out of the notice and its attachments, asks you which of them you can meet, and then sorts the answer into four groups, one of which is the group that ends the conversation.
It is the only member tool that reads the buyer's actual documents rather than the summary of them.
What it reads
- The documents attached to the tender, where this platform holds the files. These are the buyer's own documents.
- Our record of the notice: the eligibility, the requirements, the evaluation criteria and the scope of work as stored here. This is kept separate from the documents above and is never presented as the buyer's wording, because our record may be abridged.
- What you told it in step 2, plus anything saved on Profile and interests.
- It does not read character recognition of scanned pages. The place that guesswork would be stored is deliberately not one of the columns it selects.
What it will not say
- It will not run on a tender that has neither documents nor stored notice prose. It works that out from the database before any model is called, and refuses rather than producing an empty report.
- It will not pretend to have read a document it could not open. Every file it tried is named under What we read, with how much of it was read, and an unreadable one is reported by name with the reason: a scanned PDF, a corrupt file, an unsupported type.
- It will not tell you that you meet a requirement. It sorts requirements by whether you said you have the thing, and the group headed "Required, and we do not know if you have it" is the honest default.
- It cannot search for a tender. It reads only what is already on your tracker, which is deliberate: it reads whole documents, and a search box over thousands of tenders would mostly return a refusal.
What it costs
- Insider only. On the free tier no run button is drawn at all; the page names the feature and links to /pricing.
- AI requests from your daily allowance. Reading the tender to work out the questions is one step and running the check is another.
- Time. Working out what to ask you can take up to about 55 seconds the first time on a given tender, and the check itself streams a list of stages with a running clock. It is not broken because it took thirty seconds.
Before you start: it needs a tracker entry
The three steps on the screen
- 1. Which tender. Choose one of the tenders on your tracker. Choosing it starts a wait with the message "Reading this tender to work out what to ask you." and a running seconds count.
- 2. What this tender asks you. It puts questions to you that came out of the documents. Answer as many as you can; you do not have to answer all of them.
- 3. Read the documents. Press
Check this tender. A live list of stages appears with a clock, then the result.
Reading the result
The result is headed What this tender requires and everything under it falls into one of four groups. The groups are the whole point of the tool, so it is worth knowing what each one means before you read one.
| Group | What it means |
|---|---|
| This would rule you out | The only thing on the page that should stop you. A requirement the documents state and that your answers say you do not meet. Read the quotation and check it against the publisher's own notice before you abandon a bid on it. |
| Required, and we do not know if you have it | The honest default. The documents ask for it and you have not said either way. This is usually the longest list and it is your to do list. |
| Required, and you told us you have it | Requirements you answered yes to. It has not verified anything; it is repeating your own answer back. |
| Not mentioned in what we could read | Things it looked for and did not find. This is a statement about the documents it could read, not about the tender. A requirement can be in a scanned annexe it could not open. |
Below the groups, a section headed What we read names each document and how much of it was read, and a line at the end reads "Read in" a time "using" a model name. Read that section. It is how you tell a report built on all four annexes from a report built on the cover page.
Attaching your own certificates
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