The BidScript Journal
Bid Management - Resources, Guides & Best Practices
Everything you need to write, manage, and win more bids
Strategies on proposal automation, knowledge management, and winning more government contracts.
Tender Qualification: Why You Must Read the Requirement, Not the Summary
AI can summarise a tender in minutes. But if your qualification decision cannot be traced back to the exact clause, you are operating on interpretation — not evidence.
The Social Value Model: How to Answer Social Value Questions in Tenders
How the Social Value Model works under PPN 002 and the new PPN 026, what the 10% and 20% minimum weightings mean for your bid and how to write answers that score.
G-Cloud 15: What Suppliers Need to Know Now It's Live
G-Cloud 15 is live. What changed from G-Cloud 14, how the lots work, how buyers award call-offs and when suppliers who missed the first window can join.
NHS Tenders: A Supplier's Guide to How NHS Procurement Works
A plain guide to NHS tenders for suppliers: how NHS procurement works, where tenders are published and how the Procurement Act and the Provider Selection Regime apply.
Tender Evaluation Criteria Explained: MEAT, MAT & Scoring Matrices
Every mark an evaluator awards comes from the published criteria. How MAT, weightings and scoring matrices really work, and how to write answers that score.
Public Sector Procurement Process UK: A Guide for Suppliers
Most suppliers start watching at the UK4 tender notice. The strongest bid teams start at the UK1/UK2/UK3 pipeline stages. How UK public sector procurement now works, stage by stage.
Find a Tender Service (FTS): The UK Tender Discovery Platform Guide
Finding a tender on day one of a thirty-day window is an opportunity. Finding it on day nineteen is a scramble. How to turn the Find a Tender Service into an early-warning system.
Find a Tender Service (FTS): How to Use the UK's Central Tender Platform
Find a Tender is now the single home for every UK public sector contract. Learn how to search, register, and set alerts so the right tenders come to you.
Stop Trusting Answers: Why Inspectable AI Is the Future of Bidding
In complex tender environments, plausibility is not the standard. Defensibility is. If a claim cannot be traced to a precise source location, it is confidence - not control.