Used on more than 2,500 construction projects
A compliant bid is not a winning bid.
Most tenders are scored on more than price. The criteria, the requirement set and the quality questions sit in different documents, and the bid team answers them under deadline, often reusing text written for another client. The points are lost in what was answered weakly, not only in what was missed.
01
Criteria read too late
The award criteria shape the answer, but they are often read after the writing has started.
02
Requirements answered in part
Answered in one section, contradicted in another: points lost that no one sees.
03
No check before submission
There is rarely time for a full pass against every requirement before the deadline.
Everything the bid needs, in the order you work.
Volve follows the bid, from the requirements and criteria in the tender to the final check before submission.
Each answer linked to the requirement and criterion it responds to
Your best wording reused, and lessons from past evaluations applied
Clarification questions drafted with the clause attached
Strengths and weaknesses per criterion, before the client sees them
Suggestions tied to what each criterion asks for
Weighting shown, so effort goes where the points are
Every requirement checked for an answer
Gaps and contradictions between sections flagged
Each finding shows the requirement and your text
From tender requirements to a complete bid.
Volve checks what the bid answers. You decide what to commit to.
Answered: the requirement is met, traced to your text
Partly answered: met in part, or only implied
Contradicted: two sections of the bid say different things
Not answered: no part of the bid responds to it
Six things bid teams ask Volve.
Tasks from a normal tender week. Every answer comes with its source.
What the client is really scoring
The weighting decides where the hours should go.
“What are the award criteria and weightings, and which requirements does each one cover?”
What comes back
Each criterion with its weighting and the requirements behind it, with the clause.
Reuse what won, learn from what lost
Your best answers and the client’s feedback both sit in past tenders.
“Find our strongest answers on site logistics, and where the client marked us down last time.”
What comes back
Past answers that fit, and the feedback from earlier evaluations, each with the tender it came from.
Score before the client does
A weak answer costs as much as a missing one.
“Score our quality section against the award criteria.”
What comes back
Strengths, weaknesses and suggestions per criterion, before you submit.
Requirements left unanswered
One requirement missed can make a bid non-compliant.
“Which requirements does our bid not yet answer?”
What comes back
Each open requirement with its clause, and where an answer should go.
Sections that contradict
The method says one thing, the programme another.
“Where does our bid contradict itself between sections?”
What comes back
Each contradiction side by side, with the sections and the requirement it touches.
Clarifications before the deadline
The question deadline closes before the writing is done.
“Draft clarification questions for the open points in the tender.”
What comes back
Questions with the clause attached, ready to send before the deadline.
GO FURTHER
The patterns, the checklist, the method and the insight
A bid you can sign off
Every answer shows the requirement it responds to.
The same method every time
Your criteria checks and best wording on every tender.
Time back for judgement
The reading and checking are done. The team’s hours go to the strategy, the price and the answers that score.
One draft, the whole bid team.
Bid, technical and commercial teams work from the same requirements and the same draft. Findings and sign-offs are shared and traceable, so the bid that goes out is the one the team agreed.
Bid & tender managers
Run the bid against the requirements and the criteria, with every gap in view.
Bid writers & technical leads
Write to what is scored, and reuse what has won before.
Directors & commercial leads
Sign off a bid you can see is complete.
With Volve we went from manual checks to a consistent peer review. We’ve now had 100% bid quality scores from public evaluators across five consecutive wins.
Tender Manager
Infrastructure contractor
Bring one tender, with a draft or without, and we’ll run it through Volve with you. You’ll see the requirements and criteria structured, where the bid answers them, and what is still open. Your team makes the call.
A working session on your own documents
Requirements, criteria and what is still open
No preparation needed from your team
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