The final review should involve a critical assessment of the responses in-line with the published scoring system to ensure that maximum marks can be allocated to responses.
The final review assessment ensures responses:
- Demonstrate the capability and capacity to deliver against requirements
- Provide clear and apparent supporting examples and evidence
- Clearly meet all specification criteria (where possible) and are easy to read
Points to Consider When Reviewing Your Bid
| Language | There are no typos and definitive/assertive/positive wording and phrases are used. Any new concepts or terms are defined clearly |
| Structure | Logical flow (mirroring the question), headings, bullets, and tables are used to maximise the ease of reading |
| Feature, advantage, benefit | The responses ‘complete the circle’ and are on the whole client benefit-driven |
| Examples and Supporting evidence | Any claims or aspirations are supported by statistical or grounded evidence |
| Unique Selling Point(s) | Most of the client benefits listed are derived from a unique service offering and therefore cannot be imitated |
| Differentiating | Response is supplemented with additional elements/comments not explicitly asked for which demonstrate experience and competency |
| Omissions | The solutions directly respond to the question, tackling the root, rather than providing a surface level response |
The Methodology for the Bid Review
- With as much time possible prior to the tender submission, a CA consultant will review the bid and your final draft submission, and mark against the evaluation criteria – scoring; excellent, good, indifferent, or weak
- For good, indifferent, or weak answers, we provide solutions and enriched answers.
- Either pre or post submission (depending on submission deadline) we undertake a face-to-face or phone session with your internal stakeholders to run through the enriched answers and the rationale as to why we have suggested the responses given.