What the desk does

In the order a bid actually gets decided

01

Which tenders are worth bidding on

Open tenders scored against what you deliver and what you have won before. The output is a shortlist with a reason attached to every exclusion, so a no is auditable rather than a silence.

02

How many bidders to expect

What this agency's tenders in this category have historically drawn. A bid is priced against the field, and the field is knowable before you commit a team to it.

03

Where the winning price has sat

The band awards have settled into for this agency and this category, read from the award record rather than from the estimate published alongside the notice.

04

What gets bids thrown out

The requirements that have disqualified bidders on comparable tenders — the ones that end a submission before anyone reads the price.

05

A drafted bid

A first draft against the tender's own structure, with the sections that carry scoring weight marked and the boilerplate already written.

06

Your review, your submission

A checklist a person works through before anything is filed. The desk drafts; it does not submit on your behalf, and it does not pretend the last call is anyone's but yours.

What it looks like

One memo, anonymised

Anonymised sample memo — content owed

Before it opens

We're taking three early clients.

The desk runs by hand while the tooling is built, so the first three shape what it becomes. If you bid into Saudi government tenders now and the decision to bid is the part that costs you, tell us what you are bidding on.