How to Write a Tender · The review phase
Reviewing the Tender
Once it's written, the bid must be reviewed — properly, by the right people, against the right things.
Form a review team
The tender should be reviewed for:
- Technical solution
- Commercial offering
- Spelling, grammatical and formatting errors
- Strategic alignment to the evaluation criteria
Ideally, review the technical solution at regular stages through drafting — for consistency in terminology, approach and technology.
Brief the review team
Brief the reviewers on exactly what they're looking for. A common mistake is to simply review the pricing and hunt for spelling errors.
A reviewer checklist keeps everyone focused on the same things.
Someone must own the master document and be responsible for ensuring every reviewer comment is dealt with — ignored or included.
Review the document
The easiest way to review is to share the document online — in SharePoint, OneDrive or Google Docs — so reviewers can make inline edits and leave comments in the same place. That makes resolving all the comments far easier.
Once the response has been reviewed and updated, it becomes the second draft — ready for a final once-over before it's prepared for submission.