Read a tender pack and ask it questions
A tender pack is two hundred pages that decide your next six months. Read and Ask pulls out the requirements, the returnables and the dates that matter, then answers your questions with the page it found them on.
Shown with a real public tender pack.
What you will learn
- How Read and Ask turns a two-hundred-page pack into a list of requirements
- How to spot mandatory returnables and a compulsory briefing before they sink you
- How to ask the pack a question and get an answer with its page reference
- Why the requirements you miss are the ones that disqualify you
Read the transcript+
A government tender pack can run to two hundred pages, and buried in it are the three or four requirements that decide whether your bid is even read. Miss a compulsory briefing or a single returnable, and the rest of your work does not matter.
This is Read and Ask. Open a tender and it reads the pack for you. The scope, the evaluation criteria, the special conditions, pulled out of the PDFs and listed in plain language.
Here are the mandatory returnables. SBD 4, the declaration of interest. SBD 6.1, the preference claim. If a form is compulsory, it says so, and if you have not got it yet, it is flagged.
Now the part that saves the weekend. Ask the pack a question. Is the site briefing compulsory? The answer comes back with the page it was found on, so you can check it yourself.
Every answer works the same way: the requirement, and the page reference. Nothing paraphrased past recognition, nothing guessed.
Read the pack once, properly, then price with the full picture. Next, the hardest call in bidding: whether to bid at all.