Commercial decision intelligence for tendering and preconstruction

Manage scope and surface risk across every tender, bid and contract

Volve reads, checks and does the work across your full document set, from quantities to subcontractor offers, with every finding traced to source.

Check coverage, risk and compliance across every document

Give it a task, get the result with its sources

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Commercial decision intelligence for tendering and preconstruction

Used on more than 2,500 construction projects

A tender gives you weeks to commit to years of work

Missed obligations

Obligations sit across thousands of pages, addenda and award notes. Some get missed, and the cost shows up later.

Time-consuming

Reading document sets by hand leaves too little time for the bid and the risks.

Lack of repeatability

Every project is unique, but the commercial process repeats. Yet the checks live in people’s heads, so quality depends on who ran the review, and the lessons leave with the tender.

FEATURES

Built around how your team works

Volve works along four threads, risk, scope, bid and procurement, on one connected baseline.

A change in one shows up in the others, every finding stays traced to its source, and what you learn carries into the next tender.

Risk — understand what you’re taking on

Connect every document, bid and risk into one traceable view

Volve reads the full document set and links every risk and obligation to the exact clause it came from.

Coverage, gaps & risks

Structured insight into every requirement: covered, at risk, or still open, and it says so when the documents don’t answer.

Map of every tender requirement with its status, flagging an uncapped delay damages clause as critical

Compare to any standard

Check the tender against the standard form, your own licensed copy. FIDIC, NEC, JCT, AB, NS, YSE, UAV.

Volve comparing tender clauses against FIDIC and flagging a match and a deviation

Keep control of revisions

Track new versions against the baseline or the  one before.

Tender documents as PDFs with one highlighted for review

Scope — see and work across the full scope, start to finish

Scope breakdown

Specification review and scope structured per project type: packages, disciplines and requirements, traced across every file.

Volve scope view splitting work packages such as temporary works, blasting and tunnels by discipline

Quantities

Quantity take-off from the drawings and specifications, checked against the bill of quantities or the model. Build the bill where there is none.

Volve quantity table extracted from a ceiling plan, with one material ID not yet confirmed

Drawings & BIM

Volve reads the documents, drawings and BIM models, linked and checked across all three. Quantities and room schedules from the model without a BIM specialist, and drawing findings as cited PDF markups.

BIM model, drawings and documents linked and checked across all three

Bid — build and quality-check your bid

Build the bid on the baseline

Develop your response on the connected baseline, with answers traced to requirements and your wording from past bids reused.

Bid response built on a baseline of requirements, risks and obligations, with answers traced to requirements

Assess against the award criteria

Score the bid against the award criteria, with strengths, weaknesses and suggestions before you submit.

Volve scoring a method statement against the award criteria at 3.4 out of 5, with strengths and weaknesses

Check coverage before submission

A final pass flags any requirement your bid has not answered, before it goes out.

Requirements tracker showing 312 requirements, 297 answered and 15 open

Procurement — compare what each offer includes

Evaluate and level subcontractor bids in one place

Compare subcontractor offers with each other on the same basis, and against the client requirements, with exclusions and reservations alongside, so the right questions get asked before you award.

Evaluate subcontractor bids in one place

Volve procurement pack comparing four bids against the client documents

Evaluate incoming bids

Score bids against the award criteria and the requirement set, with exclusions and deviations alongside. The same check a contractor runs on subcontractors, applied to the tender.

Give it real work

Ask it to do real work

Give it a task you’d give a colleague: check the quantities against the drawings, compare three subcontractor offers, flag what deviates from the standard form. It runs the work, verifies the result and shows how it got there. Longer tasks run in the background.

Volve chat assistant asked to verify sheet piling quantities against the drawings

Build it together

Turn findings into documents, registers and tables   the whole team edits.

Manage the work

Turn findings into tasks, assign owners and track them to done, all against the same baseline.

Across every project — memory, collaboration and language

Portfolio memory

Your positions, wording and findings from past tenders, available on the next one.

Learnings

Tender evaluations

Tenders marked as Won

Portfolio memory

Learnings found

Your checklists on
every tender

Your checklists on every tender

The same checks on every tender, whoever runs the review: go/no-go red lines, time bars and notices, commercial risk exposure and document quality. Use Volve’s templates, your organisation’s or your own.

Volve go/no-go checklist with yes or no answers traced to contract clauses

One standard for every review

Checked against your standard forms and client requirements, applied the same way across the portfolio.

Review template applying the same checks to four tenders

Works in your language

Ask and read findings in your language, whatever the documents are in.

Volve answering in the reader's preferred language, with the supported languages shown

Enterprise-grade by default

Never used to train the model providers' models. Your tender material stays yours,   they receive only the excerpt needed for a request, under contracts that prohibit training.

Never used to train the model providers' models - they receive only the excerpt needed for a request, under contracts that prohibit training.

Enterprise access control

Role-based access, SSO and audit.

Processing in the EEA

Aligned with security requirements.

Per-project boundaries

Each project isolated from the next.

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See where Volve fits, on a tender like yours

In 45 minutes we show Volve live on a tender like the ones you typically work on: the risks, the coverage, and what it found that was not asked about.

Live in the platform, on a tender like yours

Risks, coverage and the findings you did not ask

No preparation needed from your team

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