The ten steps, in order.
Every step feeds the next: the analysis sharpens the strategy, the strategy steers the writing, the review sharpens the plan.
Kickoff
Kick off with your team around the tender. Walk through the details TenderTools extracted for you, and invite the people who should see them — colleagues and external reviewers too.
Analyse
Five analyses set the ground: the documents themselves, the contracting authority, the competitors, the market and news, and your own winning themes.
Strategy
Take a position before you write a word: your angle for this tender, win themes per section and a tone of voice that suits the evaluator reading it.
Draft
Write criterion by criterion in a Word-like editor on A4, with a live page counter and expert buttons. Your library sits within reach: earlier responses, case studies and company information in your house style, ready next to the question they belong to.
Design
Give the document its look: headings, type and layout in your house style, with the format rules from the tender pack checked as you go.
Review
Every criterion is read the way an evaluator would: requirements, writing, strategy and structure, and an expected score on the tender's own scale. The standard behind it is the 6-factor model.
Write and refine
With the review in hand, rewrite and refine: strengthen the sections that need it, sharpen the strongest answers and polish until every criterion reads its best.
Deliver
Get the finished response out of the tool: a clean Word export, the pack's format rules checked one last time, and everything packaged for submission.
Win
Send the response in with the deadline met and every requirement checked. The result comes back into the project: the award, the feedback, the notes.
Evaluate
Look back with everything on record: what the review predicted, what the client valued, what to repeat. The next tender starts better informed.
These ten steps are a route, not a rail. TenderTools is built to flex with any process you run: walk the steps in order, jump from step 2 to step 7, or circle back the other way when the tender asks for it. For the truly best plan you need a thorough process — and that is exactly what these steps are. They don't stand alone: how they connect is explained further in the context model. Teamwork runs through all ten steps as well: different people take on different parts of the process, from kickoff to delivery.
Every tender feeds the next.
The last steps are not the end of the route: what you wrote, what the review found and what actually scored all travel into the next tender, so the next plan starts sharper than this one.
Walk the ten steps on your own tender.
Take one you already have running and follow the process with your own documents.
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