The criteria, mapped
Each requirement connected to the answer meant to meet it, with gaps marked.
Bid review / A closer reading
See what your draft leaves unanswered.
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An independent read of your draft against the published criteria. Get a marked-up copy, a budget check and a clear order for the changes.
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THE WORKING ANSWER01 / 04
Illustrative example, not a client bid
Who will lead the service handover? Explain their checks, name the lead and provide evidence of their relevant qualification.
The draft
Our experienced team will ensure a smooth handover.
Who is responsible? The draft does not say.
The clearer answer
The mobilisation coordinator owns the daily handover check and records unresolved service risks in the transition log.
Still needed: the named lead and evidence of their qualification.
A clearer answer.Evidence still matters.
One draft / A clear set of decisions
Know what the review returns
The changes, ranked
A marked-up copy explains what to change and which changes matter most.
The numbers, checked
Your budget or quoted prices checked line by line against the narrative.
Where this fee stops
One round of the changes you pick is made for you inside the fee, and anything wanted after that is quoted first. A new application or a response written from scratch is quoted as writing.
The fee covers a draft up to 3,000 words or six scored questions, whichever comes first. A longer draft is priced from the free read before you send it.
Half the fee starts the work and the other half is due on delivery. A review comes back within 3 working days from the day the tender documents land.
Budget for the award payment too. A grant or tender carries an additional payment if awarded, agreed before work starts. See amounts, due dates and full payment terms.
Open the layers behind an answer
Inspect the requirement, the draft, its evidence and the assessment. This is an illustrative tender, not a client submission.
Tender Question 3.2: Safeguarding and Mobilisation Continuity
Illustrative Public Authority (Synthetic Sample)
The question: Explain how your proposed delivery model guarantees service continuity during the first 60 days of mobilisation, identifying your designated safeguarding leads, escalation thresholds and operational risk register.
The assessment: Illustrative assessment criterion: explain responsibility, provide supporting evidence and identify unresolved handover risks. Real tenders set their own criteria.
- 1. Tender Requirement
- The specification demands evidence of 60-day continuity, named safeguarding leadership and an operational risk register.
- 2. Draft Paragraph
- Our team will deploy an experienced mobilisation coordinator to lead transition activities from day one across all partner sites.
- 3. Grounded Evidence
- Mobilisation Schedule doc ref MOB-2024-v2, Level 4 Safeguarding Officer Certificate, and Transition Risk Register with 14 mitigation actions.
- 4. Evaluator Rubric
- A reviewer checks the stated roles and commitments against supporting records. The buyer decides the assessment using the criteria in its own tender.
Illustrative Public Authority (Synthetic Sample)
Tender Question 3.2: Safeguarding and Mobilisation Continuity
Requirement: Explain how your proposed delivery model guarantees service continuity during the first 60 days of mobilisation, identifying your designated safeguarding leads, escalation thresholds and operational risk register.
Instruction: Responses must cite verified operational policies, named personnel qualifications and recent contract mobilisation records within the last three years.
Inspect response anatomy by layer:
The Stated Question
Exact buyer instruction, weighting and assessment criteria
The specification demands evidence of 60-day continuity, named safeguarding leadership and an operational risk register.
Submitted Narrative
The submitted response text addressing mobilisation
Our team will deploy an experienced mobilisation coordinator to lead transition activities from day one across all partner sites.
Underlying Provenance
Verified policy documents, training logs and audit trails
Mobilisation Schedule doc ref MOB-2024-v2, Level 4 Safeguarding Officer Certificate, and Transition Risk Register with 14 mitigation actions.
Scoring Determination
How procurement assessors mark the passage against criteria
A reviewer checks the stated roles and commitments against supporting records. The buyer decides the assessment using the criteria in its own tender.
What a marked-up review looks like
Read a complete worked reviewA public social value question, an intentionally weak draft and the ranked notes it receives.
This is a worked example on a published question, not a client's document. The question is the model social value question from the government's published Social Value Model. Social value is the section where a buyer marks what your delivery does for the local area, and it usually carries its own share of the marks. The notes are the shape a marked-up review comes back in.
The question
In no more than [enter number of] words please set out, in a method statement and project plan, the specific, measurable and time bound commitment(s) your organisation will make to deliver the [insert policy outcome] and the following Award Criteria below.
Quoted from Procurement Policy Note 002, the Social Value Model, which is the government's published guidance on social value, issued by the Cabinet Office and last updated 5 March 2025. The square brackets are the buyer's to fill in.
A draft answer, written here to be weak
We are fully committed to social value and have always taken our responsibilities to the local community seriously. Our people are our greatest asset, and everyone who joins us is treated fairly and paid properly. We have delivered work like this for public bodies before and the feedback was positive.
Over the life of the contract we will create 12 new roles in the area, made up of 4 apprenticeships, 4 supervisory posts and 5 operative posts. We will report on progress at regular intervals and we are confident every commitment will be met.
What comes back, ranked by what it's worth
- Worth most: it never answers the criterion. The question asks for commitments that are specific, measurable and time bound. Not one date appears in either paragraph. "Over the life of the contract" and "at regular intervals" are not times, so an assessor marking against the words in the question has nothing to award against. The fix is a date on every commitment and a first one the buyer can check inside the first quarter.
- Second: the numbers do not add up. Four apprenticeships, four supervisory posts and five operative posts is thirteen roles, and the sentence says twelve. Whoever checks the arithmetic finds that in seconds, and it puts a question mark over every other figure in the response. The fix is to make the parts and the total agree, then say which of the two the company is willing to be held to.
- Third: the first paragraph is claims with nothing behind them. Committed, greatest asset and the feedback was positive are all things the buyer cannot check and cannot score, and they spend the word count that the second paragraph needed. The fix is to cut the paragraph and put the evidence that exists in its place, named so it can be asked for.
On your own draft the notes are made where the change is, so the reasoning sits beside the sentence it is about, and you decide which ones to take.
A stronger answer still needs real evidence
A bid review is an independent read of a funding application or tender response you've already written, held line by line against the funder's or the buyer's published criteria. It comes back as a marked-up copy with every change explained, so you fix what will cost you marks in the time you've got. Some buyers call that a critical friend.
A missing result, qualification or delivery commitment cannot be fixed by more confident wording. The review marks what needs your evidence or decision. If the draft needs writing from the beginning, you get that recommendation before buying the review.
Writing a response is from £500. The scope and fee are agreed first.
What to send with the draft
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The funder's guidance or the tender documents, the deadline, and the budget or the prices you are quoting. Send those first, because without the criteria there is nothing to mark the draft against.
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