The UK's Tender Intelligence Platform for Construction

Tenderiq the intelligent way to tender

Know how competitive your tender is — before you submit it.

TenderIQ UK scores your draft against the published award criteria, shows exactly where you're losing marks, and coaches you to a stronger submission.

No credit card — your first tender, free.
Tender Competitiveness™School Rebuild · £4.2m · Quality 30 / Price 70
Indicative
Indicative total
92% 915 / 1000 marks
Quality 271/300Price 644/700
Programme & Delivery62% · Good · earned60 / 80
Key Personnel78% · Very good · earned48 / 50
Construction Methodology76% · Very good · earned93 / 100
Social Value84% · Excellent · earned70 / 70
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Biggest win: Programme & Delivery — add a critical-path narrative with named milestones and float ownership. Modelled lift: Good → Very good (+ up to 12 marks).
Your merit is earned (locked). Field position and price are your estimates. An indicative guide, scored relative to the best tender — not a prediction of the award.
Who it's for

Built for UK public construction — across every sub-sector.

TenderIQ UK scores works tenders awarded on published quality and price criteria under the Procurement Act 2023. Each sub-sector has its own lens, standards and scoring discipline. Whether you bid every month or twice a year, it turns the hardest, most expensive part of winning work into the easiest.

Social housing & retrofit

Planned works, decarbonisation and occupied-site refurbishment — resident liaison, mobilisation, PAS 2035 and TOMs-aligned social value.

Education

Schools and further education capital works — phased delivery around term time, safeguarding, DfE output specifications and handover.

Healthcare

NHS and care estate — clinical continuity, HTM/HBN compliance, infection control and works alongside live services.

Civic & general works

Leisure, blue light, highways-adjacent and general public buildings — methodology, programme, resourcing and NEC contract mechanics.

Built for how the UK buys construction

Tuned to the frameworks you bid on.

The same engine, with the criteria, standards and language of the UK public construction estate built in — Procurement Act 2023, CCS, and the major framework routes.

Pagabo & YPO

Regional construction frameworks — methodology, programme, social value and KPIs.

ProCure23 (NHS)

NHS capital works — clinical continuity, HTM/HBN compliance, infection control.

LHC & Fusion21

Local authority housing, retrofit and planned works — resident liaison and mobilisation.

CCS Construction Works

Crown Commercial Service works and design frameworks — award criteria and MI.

The problem

Why do good contractors lose tenders?

Rarely because the work isn't good enough. Usually because the response leaves marks on the table — and no one catches it until the standstill letter arrives.

Answering the wrong question

The response talks around the criterion instead of addressing exactly what the evaluator asked.

Generic methodology

A reusable method that isn't tied to this site, this contract, this employer's requirements.

Thin on evidence

Claims without the named projects, KPIs or references a panel can actually award marks for.

Over the page limit

Strong content that breaches format rules and gets discounted or disqualified.

Social value bolted on

A Social Value response that isn't measurable, TOMs-aligned or contract-specific.

Gaps found too late

Discovering the weaknesses in the debrief, when nothing can be changed.

How it works

Six steps, one workflow.

From first read to final check, every stage feeds the next. Nothing is re-keyed, nothing is lost, and nothing is scored against a generic template.

1

Upload everything in one bucket

Drop in the ITT, employer's requirements, specifications, drawings, programmes, bills of quantities and any draft responses — PDF, Word, Excel, images or pasted text. TenderIQ reads them, builds a sourced project overview, and shows you exactly what it found and what it could not verify.

2

Capture the award framework

Record the criteria, weightings, word or page limits, and any stated minimums. TenderIQ applies the published marking scheme literally — not a generic rubric — and warns you when the framework adds up to more or less than 100%.

3

Raise the right clarification queries

TenderIQ flags where the documents are silent, contradictory or ambiguous, and drafts the questions worth putting to the contracting authority before the deadline closes. No more realising the gap the day after submissions are due.

4

Build the brief, then draft the response

For each criterion, TenderIQ generates a response brief grounded in your documents, then writes a first draft in the right structure, tone and page budget. Anything only you can supply is marked [USER INPUT REQUIRED], so you own the final answer.

5

Score what you actually submit

Paste or upload your finished responses and TenderIQ marks them the way the panel will — band by band, criterion by criterion, with the quality-versus-price competitiveness read. Not a flattering number. The honest one, while you can still act on it.

6

Check the whole pack before sending

A final mechanical sweep across every response: unanswered requirements, placeholders left in the text, contradictions between answers, and evidence gaps. Fix the easy losses before the deadline, not after.

The only tool that takes you the whole way — read, questioned, briefed, drafted, marked and checked. Honest-model guardrail: no win probability, no ranking, no competitor position, no recommended price band — anywhere in the product.

The differentiator

It marks like the evaluator.

Every other tool tells you your bid is great. Your bid isn't great until the evaluator says so — and by then it's too late to change it. TenderIQ UK scores the way the panel scores: it counts reservations, it won't be flattered by good writing, and it never invents evidence you don't have. It tells you the truth about your bid while you can still act on it. That's the whole point.

Under the bonnet

Trained skill by skill, the way a bid team is built.

TenderIQ UK isn't one general model given a clever instruction. It's a register of individually trained skills — each one taught a single discipline of tender work, each one applied at the point in the process where it matters. Eight run the pipeline from intake to final check. Eight more are the specialist lenses a panel marks against.

The pipeline — intake to submission

  • Project overview — reads every document at intake and builds a sourced fact register. Nothing derived, everything traceable.
  • Query intent — reconstructs the evaluator's concern behind each question, and the expectations they never wrote down.
  • Ask ledger — atomises the criterion into one shared list of asks, so the brief and the scorer are marking the same thing.
  • Context binding — ties every ask to the project facts, so nothing in the brief floats free of the documents.
  • Client value — reframes activity into output and client assurance, the way a panel reads merit.
  • Response style — governs how the draft reads: tone, structure, tables and the page budget.
  • Band scoring — classifies against the band descriptors; deterministic code, not the model, awards the mark.
  • Tender assurance — the mechanical sweep across the finished pack, and a plain statement of what it did not check.

The specialist lenses — how panels actually mark

  • Method — sequence, resourcing, interfaces, controls and how risk is carried through delivery.
  • Programme & time — the plan, the critical path, and float managed the way the contract says, not the way it's usually claimed.
  • Experience — comparable projects, named and evidenced, with why each is genuinely comparable.
  • People & resourcing — named roles, competence, availability, cover, and arithmetic that holds up.
  • Risk — this project's risks, their owners and controls, the residual position and escalation.
  • Quality & compliance — the standard, the mechanism, the sign-off and the record that proves it.
  • Social value — measurable, TOMs-aligned commitments with a baseline, a method and a reporting cadence.
  • Sustainability — quantified carbon and environmental commitments, and how they're calculated and reported.

Each skill is versioned and governed by a written specification — so the same submission is read the same way today, next month and next year.

Traditional review vs TenderIQ

A second opinion, on every criterion, in minutes.

Traditional manual review

  • Days of turnaround, if a reviewer is free
  • A sample of sections, not all of them
  • Consistency varies by who reads it
  • A fee for every review round
  • Margin comments, not scored rewrites
  • Feedback after the draft is done

TenderIQ UK

  • Every response scored in minutes
  • Every criterion, every time
  • The same 9-band rubric applied consistently
  • One subscription, unlimited evaluations
  • Scored, with grounded before/after rewrites
  • Feedback while you can still act on it
Flagship · Tender Competitiveness™

An honest read, not a guess.

Most UK public tenders score quality relative to the best submission — which no tool can see. So TenderIQ scores what you control, and lets you model the rest.

Earned

Your quality merit

The marks your response earns on each criterion, against the rubric. Locked — the only way to move it is to improve the response.

Your estimate

The field & your price

You set where the strongest competing response likely lands, and your price versus the lowest. Your call, your knowledge of the market.

Indicative

The competitiveness read

Quality scored relative to the best tender, plus your price — combined into an indicative total that updates as you improve.

We never claim to predict who wins. There's no fabricated win probability and no invented ranking — because we can't see your competitors' bids, and we won't pretend to.

Founding cohort · 2026

Built with UK contractors.

TenderIQ UK is launching with a founding group of regional main contractors and specialist sub-contractors. Because it scores consistently, the improvement is measurable. (Illustrative founding-cohort examples.)

"It caught a whole criterion we'd half-answered. The rewrite guidance took our Programme section from a pass to genuinely strong."

Bid Manager · regional main contractor

"The value is seeing where you lose marks before the panel does. We stopped guessing and started fixing the right things."

Director · M&E specialist

"Consistent scoring meant I could trust the before/after. I could show the team exactly why a section improved."

Bid Lead · retrofit & decarbonisation contractor
Example lift · Programme criterion
Good · 66Very good · 78after coached rewrites
What you get

Outcomes, not features.

See where you lose marks

Per-criterion scoring with the exact gaps quoted from your own response.

Understood before it's scored

The engine reads your project first, so it judges the response in context.

Improve responses faster

Grounded before/after rewrites you can act on, not vague suggestions.

Catch mistakes early

Errors, omissions and format breaches surfaced before you submit.

Reuse your best evidence

A content vault so your strongest examples are always to hand.

Consistent every time

The same 9-band rubric applied the same way — so improvement is measurable.

How review compares

Three ways to check a bid. Only one lets you fix it.

Consultant review

Senior bid manager · £1,500–£5,000 · 2–3 days · one opinion.

  • Human judgement, single perspective
  • Slow — often too late to rewrite
  • No repeatable re-score after edits

Per-report AI review

Hundreds of pounds per report · one snapshot · no revision loop.

  • Generic marking, not your tender's actual scheme
  • No before-and-after receipt
  • Pay again for every revision

TenderIQ

Under 60 seconds per evaluation · revise and re-score as often as needed.

  • Scored against your tender's actual marking scheme
  • Built for UK construction MAT procurement
  • Before-and-after improvement receipt on every card

Independence. The AI that wrote your bid can't mark it. TenderIQ evaluates whatever you wrote, wherever you wrote it — and never writes for you.

Provenance. Coaching authored by working procurement professionals and calibrated against real assessment summaries. Our accuracy record is published and updated by re-measurement, never by rounding up.

Pricing

One plan. Everything included.

Priced against what it replaces — consultant reviews at £1,500–£5,000 and per-report AI reviews at hundreds of pounds per snapshot. One month of TenderIQ costs a fraction of one external review and includes the full revise-and-re-score loop.

TenderIQ Professional
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  • Unlimited evaluations (fair use)
  • Unlimited projects, users and uploads
  • Unlimited AI coached rewrites
  • Tender Competitiveness™
  • 9-band rubric scoring & gap analysis
  • Content Vault & project understanding
  • All future updates included
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FAQ

Good questions.

No. TenderIQ drafts responses grounded in your ITT and project documents, but anything only you can supply — names, dates, case studies, prices — is marked [USER INPUT REQUIRED]. You fill those in, then take the final text to the Responses page to be scored.

The ITT, employer's requirements, specifications, drawings, programmes, pre-start forms and your draft responses — as PDF, Word, Excel, images, or pasted text. Each tender has a 500 MB / 50-file limit and documents are wiped 60 days after upload.

Yes. TenderIQ reads the documents for silent, contradictory or ambiguous points and drafts the clarification questions worth raising before the query deadline closes — not after.

The AI classifies your response against each published criterion, then deterministic code applies the marking scheme, length limits and thresholds. The model never emits the score — it classifies, the engine scores.

It scans for unanswered requirements, leftover placeholders, contradictions between responses, and missing evidence — so you fix the easy losses before submission.

Yes. Your documents and responses are private to your organisation, encrypted at rest and in transit, and never used to train shared models.

UK public construction works, frameworks and one-off procurements — typically in the £500k–£10m range. It covers routes such as Pagabo, ProCure23, LHC, Fusion21, YPO and direct authority ITTs.

No. TenderIQ coaches you through each phase. You bring the project knowledge; it brings the procurement structure, scoring logic and drafting discipline.

Yes — the Professional plan includes unlimited users, so your bid team, estimators and site leads can work from the same projects and evidence.

One plan — TenderIQ Professional — unlimited under fair use. Your first tender is free with no card required. Cancel anytime.

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