Tender Proof EngineTender intelligence · South Africa
Tender intelligence · South African public procurement

Bid where you can win. Never lose on paperwork.

We find the tenders that fit a business, say whether it can bid before anyone opens the document, prepare every form and check it twice, and run the business development behind the next win on the client's own portal.

11checks between the tender and the envelope
24returnable types read, with their expiry dates
84public buyers recognised by name
Exhibit 1
Before a bid goes out, the autopilot answers eight questions
1Is everything filed: forms, returnables, pricing?Yes
2What does the tender demand, and on which page?Read
3Is every certificate valid at closing?Renew 1
4Is every form filled from your records, nothing guessed?Yes
5Does a second, independent reader agree?Yes
6Would the returnables pass the gate?Ready
7Is the pack complete, indexed and hashed?Yes
8What is left for a person?Sign · deliver
Source: bid autopilot report on an invented bid. Illustrative.
The answer in brief

Most lost tenders are lost before the price is read. That part is fixable.

Situation

Public buyers score price and preference points only for bids that pass the administrative gate. A missing returnable, an unsigned page or an expired certificate ends a bid there.

Complication

The rules sit in long documents that differ by buyer, certificates expire on their own clocks, and a small bid team prepares under deadline, often for tenders it could not win.

Resolution

Choose fewer, better bids. Prepare them with software that fills every form and then checks it with a second reader. Run the pipeline, track record and compliance from one place.

01 What we do

Six pieces of work, and what each one leaves you with

Find

Opportunity radar

Every tender on National Treasury's eTenders feed, the municipal and SOE pages you watch, and the RFQs sent to you, scored against your service lines, buyers, provinces and CIDB grade.

A short list, with the reason each tender is on it.
Qualify

Can we bid?

CIDB grade, certificates valid at closing, local conditions and briefings, checked before a tender is opened. Where your grade is short, the partner who holds it is named.

Eligible, fix first, bid with a partner, or pass.
Prepare

Bid autopilot

Reads the bid document and fills the SBD, MBD and buyer forms, PDF or Word, from your records. A second reader then checks every value, tick and claimed point.

Ready for signature, or exactly what is left, shown on its page.
Price

Pricing builder

The issuer's schedule priced from your costs, overheads and margin, the arithmetic checked, and the points simulated under the 80/20 and 90/10 systems.

A price you can defend, and the margin in it.
Prove

Submission pack

Cover, index, bookmarks and footers, with a SHA-256 manifest of every document and a hash-chained record of every step taken.

Evidence of what was submitted, and when.
Grow

Business development

Track record read from your archive, a compliance register, partners, pipeline and win rate, an action register and a drawings library, on your own portal.

A bid office your board can read in five minutes.
02 Client portals

For firms that bid every month: a business development office on their own brand

We set the portal up, read the client's archive into it and run it with their bid team. The client signs in at their own address, with their own logins, name and colours; behind it is the same engine.

Exhibit 2
What a client portal holds

Insight

  • Command CentreThe situation, what changed, and what to do this week.
  • MarketTenders that fit, verdicts, and the gradings still out of reach.
  • Pipeline and win rateBids by year, client and discipline; value concentration.
  • Track recordProjects proven by letters, and the values ready to quote.
  • ComplianceEvery certificate, its expiry and the free way to renew it.
  • DrawingsYour own drawings, and buyers' published ones kept apart.

Execution

  • Bid deskAutopilot, fields to complete, verification, the pack.
  • PartnersWho holds the grade you lack, and the work done together.
  • ActionsOne owner, one date, one priority for each.
  • Update centreDrop any document; it is filed and read.
  • Tender briefA PDF for the bid director, in the house format.
  • Team loginsThe client's people, and their adviser's access.
Source: the client portal menu, as delivered.
In use
BID Business Development Platform
Beyond Infradev (Pty) Ltd
Infrastructure opportunities, credentials and bids in one place: decided on evidence, owned by name, delivered on time.
In use
TKR Utilities Business Development Platform
Thuso Ke Rena Utilities (Pty) Ltd
It's simple, we offer something different
Already a client?

Your portal has its own sign-in page. The Business Portal button at the top of every page takes you there.

Business Portal
Exhibit 3
How a client portal is set up: six actions, each with one owner
#ActionOwnerWhenPriority
1Read the archive: references, appointment letters, certificates and bid registers become one track record and one compliance register.Tender Proof EngineWeek 1High
2Agree the focus: service lines, priority buyers, provinces and the lowest CIDB grade worth bidding.Client and usWeek 1High
3Brand and open the portal: name, logo, colours and the team's logins.Tender Proof EngineWeeks 1 to 2Standard
4Put the market in front of the bid director: the radar, the tender brief, and partners for grades out of reach.Tender Proof EngineWeek 2High
5Run every bid through the autopilot; a person signs, prices and delivers.Client bid team, checked by usEach tenderHigh
6Review the month: win rate, pipeline, renewals due and open actions.Client's bid directorMonthlyStandard
Source: our engagement plan for a client portal.
03 How we work

Eight checks between the tender and the envelope

The autopilot runs them in order and stops where a person has to decide. Nothing is signed, priced or submitted without you.

Exhibit 4 · The bid autopilot
  1. WorkspaceForms, returnables and pricing filed where they belong.
  2. Bid document readClosing, returnables, forms, briefing and every rejection clause, with pages.
  3. Company and certificatesIdentity consistent; certificates valid at closing and through validity.
  4. Forms filledFrom your records only. A blank stays blank rather than guessed.
  5. Read backA second reader checks every value, tick and point claimed; mistakes are quarantined.
  6. ReturnablesREADY, AT RISK or NON-RESPONSIVE, with the fix for each item.
  7. Pack built and readIndexed and bookmarked; every filled form checked inside the pack.
  8. Your partSign, date, price, commission and deliver. The autopilot never does.
Source: bid autopilot, steps 1 to 8. The form filler is tested every night against a lab of 15 standard and buyer forms, filled and read back in every format.
04 Packages

Packages are scoped to the work, and quoted

There is no price list. We agree what you bid, how often, and how much of the work you want us to carry, then quote one package. A short conversation is enough to start.

Per tender

Bid desk

One tender, prepared and checked end to end.

  • The bid document read, with page evidence
  • Forms filled and read back
  • The returnables gate
  • Pack and audit trail
Your team runs it

Bidder

The engine for a team that bids regularly.

  • Radar and "Can we bid?"
  • Compliance vault and renewals
  • Autopilot on every bid
  • Pricing builder
We run it with you

Client portal

A business development office on your brand.

  • Everything in Bidder
  • Track record from your archive
  • Portal, logins, partners, actions
  • A monthly review with your bid director
05 What we will not tell you

We cannot get you a tender, and nobody can

Award decisions are made by a bid adjudication committee on price, preference points and functionality, not by software and not by us. What we control is narrower and, on the evidence, more useful: a complete, compliant, provable envelope, handed in on time, for a tender worth bidding.

We are not your attorney or your accountant. The engine reads what the tender document says and shows you the page it says it on; deciding to bid, and what to bid, stays yours.

PPPFA 2022 specific goals MFMA / PFMA supply chain management SBD and MBD forms CSD and TCS PIN B-BBEE certificates and affidavits CIDB grading SOE and NEC forms POPIA: your documents stay yours