Public procurement evaluators don’t read the way bid teams read.
They don’t start at page one and work through to the end, forming a general impression. They evaluate through a series of increasingly demanding filters – and a bid that clears the first filter but fails the third will score in the low seventies no matter how well it is written.
BidReview is designed around this reality
Every tender response is evaluated through six specialist lenses, each representing a different evaluator perspective and a different scoring band. The lenses form a ladder: your bid can only reach the higher bands by clearing the lower lenses first.
Compliance is the floor. Strategic alignment is the ceiling.
Most bids get stuck somewhere in the middle – and once you can see where, you know exactly what to fix. Here is how the six lenses work, and what each one looks for in your response:
The Six Lenses That Predict Your Score
Baseline Compliance Audit
Lens 01
Proposal structure
Content mapping
RFP instruction adherence
Not content quality
Risk & Delivery Assurance
Lens 02
Methodology credibility
Team capability
Timeline realism
Resourcing
Rick mitigation
Dependencies
Hidden assumptions
Financial & Commercial Assurance
Lens 03
Pricing transparency
Pricing realism
Value for money alignment
Commercial terms
Financial instruction compliance
Value & Differentiation
Lens 04
Client-specific value
Credible evidenced differentiators
Benefit-led messaging
Win themes
Innovation & Future-Readiness
Lens 05
Specific (not vague) innovation
Viability and proof
Scalability
Standards and lock-in avoidance
Relevance to future need
Strategic Alignment
Lens 06
Alignment to client vision
Alignment to client policy
Alignment to transformation goals
Stakeholder and public impact
Long-term, post-contract value
Social value
€100m
in contracts won
600+
proposals analysed
93%
win rate framework
“We used to submit and hope. Now, we know our score before the buyer does. BidReview gave us the roadmap to move our technical response from a 70% to a 95%.”
John Rogers, JR Support Services
You don’t just get a score.
You get a roadmap to win.
BidReview generates a formal Evaluation Report that mirrors what the buyer’s evaluation panel would produce internally. Then it gives you specific, prioritised recommendations to improve your score — not generic advice like “provide more detail,” but targeted guidance on exactly which sections need strengthening and how.
John Rogers of JR Support Services used BidReview’s recovery plan to move his technical response from 70% to 95% — before submitting.
The BidReview Difference
Most review tools check compliance: did you fill in all the sections? Did you meet the word count? BidReview goes further. It simulates how a public sector evaluator would actually score your response — including the things that cost marks in real evaluations: vague commitments, hedged language, generic statements, and the absence of evidence that differentiates you from every other bidder.
BidReview applies 113 proprietary assessment criteria drawn from Tony Corrigan’s 25-year methodology. If your answer is compliant but cautious, it gets downgraded — because in a real evaluation, it would be.
€100m+ in contracts won
Trusted by 100+ Irish businesses
93% win rate methodology
3% margin of error
25 years of winning methodology.
Now available to every business.
BidReview isn’t trained on the internet. It’s trained on the methodology of Tony Corrigan – a procurement specialist who has analysed 3,500+ competitions, advised on both sides of the evaluation table, and built the framework behind a 92% win rate on non-cost criteria and €500m+ in won contracts.
That expertise used to be available only to the businesses who could afford to hire Tony directly. BidReview makes it available to every SME, instantly, at a fraction of the cost.
BidReview helps sales know exactly how their proposal will score, and where to focus.
Step 1.
Upload your draft proposal.
Step 2.
BidReview scores it against the criteria – the way the buyer will, not the way a writer would.
Step 3.
You get a precise score, a gap analysis, and clear direction on exactly where to focus your effort. Not more hours – the right hours.
Stop submitting blind.
Upload your next proposal.
BidReview will tell you how it scores before the buyer does.