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Know before you bid
The bids that hurt are not the ones you lose on price. They are the ones thrown out before anyone opens the price envelope — good work, rejected on a clause buried in the instructions to bidders.
Send us a tender package. We read it and return every mandatory requirement, each one quoted word for word with the page it appears on, so you can check our work in thirty seconds rather than take it on faith.
Why the quote and the page number are the whole product
Any software can tell you a tender “requires bid security”. That is not useful — you still have to go find the clause and read what form it has to take and when the original is due. And you cannot tell whether the software read the document correctly or made it up.
So we do not ship a summary. We ship the sentence and its location, and we verify that sentence against the source PDF before it reaches you. To date that is 286 verified requirements. In building the pipeline we caught 12 cases where the extraction produced a quote that was not in the document — which is exactly why nothing goes out unverified, and why we publish that number instead of quietly fixing it.
What comes back
Three kinds of thing, in plain language:
- Mandatory requirements — bid security, insurance limits, bonding, certifications, references, submission format. Each quoted and cited.
- Deadlines that are not the closing date. These are where firms lose bids they had already won on merit.
- Blockers — requirements your firm cannot meet, flagged against your profile, with the clause attached so you can confirm the call.
Three real examples
The instrument, and the clock on the original. A tender closes electronically, and then the paper has to follow:
“The original bid security must be received within three (3) working days of the tender closing.”
Three working days is not three days. A Thursday close with a Monday holiday means Wednesday — and a firm that couriers the original on Friday has submitted late on a technicality entirely within its own control.
Received, not sent.
“Bids must be received at the address noted above prior to the closing time.”
A courier scan at 2:58 for a 3:00 close is not receipt if the package is still on the truck. Where a document says received, build the schedule around the guaranteed delivery window, not the pickup deadline.
A channel your firm does not have.
“The only acceptable facsimile for responses to the RFSO is 1-877-558-2349.”
A fax number, in a federal solicitation. If you submit electronically only, this is not a tender to hurry on — it is one not to start. The only useful thing software can say about it is don’t bid, with the sentence and the page so you can confirm it yourself.
How to try it
Send one tender package and we will return the brief, free, within 24 hours. No account, no card. If it is not useful you have lost nothing but the upload.
The longer version of what these clauses do and how to catch them yourself is in the clauses that disqualify compliant bids.
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