Tender Resources
Practical Tender Resources. No Fluff.
Tendering is easier when you're prepared. These free TenderWise resources are designed to help you decide which opportunities to pursue, prepare stronger responses and avoid the little mistakes that can cost you a contract.
No sign-up. No email harvesting. Just useful stuff.
And more free resources being added all the time!
Tender Writing Tips
Writing a strong tender response is about much more than answering a list of questions. You need to understand what the evaluator is really looking for, organise your information clearly and back up what you say with relevant evidence.
Our Tender Writing Tips cover practical ways to plan and structure your response, address evaluation criteria, avoid common mistakes and make your submission clearer and easier to assess.
A useful starting point whether you’re writing your first tender or your fiftieth.
Bid/No-Bid Checklist
Not every tender is worth pursuing - and deciding not to bid can sometimes be just as valuable as deciding to go for it.
This practical checklist helps you look beyond the excitement of a new opportunity and consider strategic fit, relevant experience, capability, resources, risk, profitability and potential deal breakers before committing your time and money.
Because the best tender to win is one that was worth bidding for in the first place.
Tender Readiness Checklist
The worst time to discover you’re missing key information is three days before a tender closes. Tender readiness is about having your business information, people, systems and evidence organised before the right opportunity arrives.
Use this checklist to identify gaps in your project examples, CVs, policies, licences, insurances, financial information and supporting evidence - then work through them without a tender deadline breathing down your neck.
Could you respond to a tender tomorrow? This will help you find out.
Tender Evidence Bank
Your business generates useful tender evidence all the time - successful projects, problems solved, KPIs achieved, client feedback, innovations, safety improvements and lessons learned. The problem is that nobody can remember where any of it is when the next tender arrives.
This editable Excel workbook gives you a simple place to capture that evidence while it is fresh. It includes an evidence register, project example builder, evidence prompts and guidance on turning everyday business performance into strong tender proof.
Stop saying “we do that all the time” and start keeping the evidence that proves it.
Before you Press Submit
The response is finished. The pricing is done. Everyone is tired. Unfortunately, that’s also when little mistakes have an annoying habit of sneaking through.
This final submission checklist takes you through a proper forensic review of compliance, response quality, evidence, consistency, documents, attachments and lodgement requirements. It’s designed to catch unanswered sub-parts, missing attachments, inconsistent information, forgotten signatures and the tiny mandatory requirement hiding on page 73.
One last check before you press Submit - because “we nearly got everything right” doesn't win tenders.