The Review Phase
Reviewing the Tender
Once it is written, the bid must be reviewed.
Step 1
Form a review team
The tender should be reviewed for the following:
- Technical solution
- commercial offering
- spelling, grammatical and formatting errors
- strategic alignment to evaluation criteria
Ideally the technical solution should be reviewed at regular stages through the drafting process for consistency in terminology, approach and technology.
Step 2
Brief the review team
The reviewers should be briefed on what they are looking for. A common mistake is to simply review the pricing and look for spelling errors.
A checklist to help guide the reviewer(s) can be found here.
Someone must own the master document and be responsible for ensuring all the reviewer comments are appropriately dealt with i.e. ignored or included.
Step 3
Review the document
The easiest way to review the document is to share it online in MsSharepoint, Onedrive or Google Docs. This way the reviewer can make inline edits or place comments in the same document as everyone else. This makes dealing with all the review comments much easier.
Once the response has been reviewed and updated, it becomes the second draft for a final once-over before being prepared for submission.
