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.

I'll keep adding practical resources as I develop things I think you'll actually find useful.

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 Red Flags Checklist

Not every tender opportunity is a good opportunity. Some come with unrealistic deadlines, vague specifications, unreasonable contract conditions or commercial risks that could turn a promising contract into a very expensive headache.

Our free Tender Red Flags Checklist helps you identify potential problems before committing your time and money. It covers contractual, financial and operational warning signs, with practical guidance on when to seek clarification, obtain advice, price the risk or reconsider whether to bid.

Because winning a contract is only good news if you can actually deliver it - and make some money along the way.

Spot the warning signs before they become your problem.

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 Clarification Questions Checklist

Unclear requirements, conflicting schedules and untested assumptions can turn a promising tender into an expensive mistake.

This free checklist helps you identify what needs clarifying, ask better questions and keep track of the answers before you submit.

Because a confident answer is of little use if you've misunderstood the question!

The most dangerous tender question is the one you never ask.

Tender Evaluation Criteria Decoder

Writing a strong tender response isn't just about answering questions. It's about understanding what evaluators are assessing, identifying the evidence they need and presenting it in a way that makes awarding marks easy.

Our free Tender Evaluation Criteria Decoder helps you interpret evaluation criteria, distinguish mandatory requirements from scored criteria and understand what a strong response should demonstrate. It includes practical examples, response-planning worksheets and a final self-assessment checklist.

Because even a beautifully written tender won't score well if it doesn't give evaluators what they're looking for.

Don't just answer the question. Give the evaluator a reason to award the marks.

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 tender 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.

Simple Project Case Study Template

Your completed projects are some of the strongest evidence you can use in a tender - but only if you’ve captured the details that actually prove what your business can do.

This editable Word template helps you record the story behind a project while the information is still easy to find. It prompts you to capture the client’s requirements, what you delivered, how you delivered it, the challenges you managed and, importantly, the results and evidence that prove the outcome.

It also helps you identify useful supporting evidence - such as KPIs, client feedback, photos, reports and completion records.

Over time, you’ll build a bank of tender-ready project examples that can be adapted to suit different opportunities.

Free editable Word template. No email address required. Just download it and use it.

Tender CV Template & Guide

A tender CV has a very different job from the CV someone uses to apply for a job. It needs to show the evaluator why this particular person is relevant to the contract and what evidence proves they can do the job.This editable Word template helps you build tender-focused CVs covering the person's proposed role, contract responsibilities, qualifications and licences, relevant skills and, importantly, specific project experience that demonstrates their capability.

The guide includes prompts throughout to help you focus on the information evaluators actually need.. Complete one for each of your key people and keep them updated, and you'll gradually build a bank of tender-ready CVs that can be quickly tailored to suit each opportunity.

Free editable Word template and guide. No email address required. Just download it and use it.