The whole writing process. One source: this tender.
A good answer to the question scores "good". The tools below help you reach good first, and then go beyond it.
In a tender, every company has only two problems: not the right approach, or the right approach not properly on paper. TenderTools works on both, with tools that feed each other: the analyses fill the strategy, the strategy steers the writing, and the review tests every text against everything in the project. You set the order and adjust as you go. Nothing in your response changes without you seeing it, and at any moment you can see what it would score now.
Free for 30 days. No credit card.
about 25 seconds, no sound, autoplay, loop, muted, playsinline
poster = SCHERM-01. The review panel on one criterion as the score per factor and the first findings appear.
Work the way you work in ChatGPT. With everything from this tender to hand.
On the right of the screen is the dialogue panel. You work in it as freely as in ChatGPT or Claude, but with everything in your project within reach: the documents, the analyses, the strategy, your text and the review. Ask a question about the tender documents. Run an analysis. Ask for suggestions to improve a criterion. Paste the transcript of your review meeting and have the points worked in. Have a colleague's comment assessed on whether it helps. One question, or a whole series of actions in a row. The panel talks to every other part of the software; how far you take it is up to you.
two minutes, with voice-over and subtitles, with play button
poster = SCHERM-16. The dialogue panel starts an analysis, suggests improvements for a criterion and works in a review point.
Documents first. Then the first word.
Upload the tender documents (PDF, Word, images). TenderTools extracts what you need: a summary and the client's objectives, the award criteria with weightings and scoring scale, page limits per question, format requirements with section references, and the timetable with every date.
Five analyses that feed your strategy.
The tender documents (what is the client really asking for?), the contracting authority (from the documents and its own website), your competitors (by name and URL, assessed on their fit with this tender), the market and the news around this procurement, and your own company: which win themes on your website and in your company profile fit this tender.
On a new project all analyses run at once (quickstart), so the strategy is filled before you start.
Requirements tab: page limits and format requirements per criterion
Competitor analysis: one competitor's profile, assessed on fit with this tender
Set the winning strategy.
The analyses feed the strategy: your company's positioning for this tender, win themes per section and a tone of voice that suits the person reading it. You set the strategy yourself from your own strengths, from the client's question or from the competitor analysis, you let the AI propose the strongest angle, or you combine the two. You generate ideas and filter them on one question: will this score with this client, in this contract, with this evaluator? The tool is trained to tell the difference between what any competent bidder offers as standard and what is genuinely distinctive.
The win strategy then feeds everything: every writing action and every review is tested against it. One tender you reason from the client's question, the next from your own proposition; the tool follows your angle, tender by tender.
This is the tool most software skips. A writing button improves a sentence; it does not decide what the sentence is about.
idea filter: one idea rejected as "not distinctive" next to one that is accepted
An editor that knows bid writing.
Each award criterion gets its own editor, Word-like, on A4 with a word and page counter, so you can see when you go over the page limit. Expert buttons for what bid writers do every day: make it SMART, make it more persuasive, align it with the wording of the tender documents, shorten, split, merge, add ideas, or rewrite with your own instruction. You write commitments with the SCORE method: Situation, Commitments, Outcome, Rationale, Evidence. For the text types that keep coming back in tenders, such as a step-by-step plan, a team description, risks and mitigations or an introduction, what scores is already built in. Use it if you want to. AI comments check requirements and format as you write, with a warning when an answer risks being marked "poor or not answered" and could lead to exclusion.
From idea to text.
Subject experts often have the best ideas and the most trouble getting them onto paper. TenderTools helps you draw those ideas out, put them in the order the evaluator expects and word them so they land. With tips and text suggestions; you choose what stays.
Your library supplies evidence, not your text.
TenderTools finds passages from earlier responses, case studies and company information and puts them next to the question they belong to. As input. The response itself is written from this tender's documents, because a response you could submit to any tender will not win this one.
editor with the page counter in red (over the limit) and the "shorten" button
a library passage offered next to the question
Know your score before the evaluator does.
The review reads every criterion the way an experienced colleague would, using everything in the project: the tender documents, the analyses, the win strategy and the tone of voice. It looks at four areas. Requirements: does the response meet the minimum requirements, and is there any risk of exclusion? Writing: are the commitments SMART, is it readable? Strategy: does the text follow the chosen strategy, is that strategy likely to score "excellent", and does it set you apart? Structure: does the response answer the client's question, and will the evaluator find every answer where they look for it?
the review panel: score, general findings and comments next to the text in one view, with one comment resolved and one ignored
An expected score per criterion on the six-factor model, against the scale and weighting in the documents.
General findings, starting with what gains the most.
Comments next to your text, down to word level.
What you do with them is up to you.
Collaborate the way you do in Word.
Comments next to the text, from the AI, from colleagues and from yourself: exactly how you work with reviewers, colleagues and clients in Word, but in the same place as the analysis and the review. Share a project with a colleague, leave comments per criterion and invite reviewers: a director, a project manager, an adviser. Reviewers read and comment free and without limit, without a licence and without export. In Team: roles and permissions, libraries with permissions per library, and handover of projects between writers.
review view with comments from the AI and from a colleague next to the text
What is in it today.
Word export of every criterion house style module and tone of voice per tender English and Dutch, on UK award methodology (MEAT, MAT under the Procurement Act 2023) and Dutch award methodology a library per organisation reviewers free.
Test it on your own last bid.
During the trial, put one of your own drafts into TenderTools and have it reviewed on the six-factor model. You will see for yourself what the advice is worth.