Tender Analysis (Excel)

Anyone buying goods and services on behalf of a company will run a tender and those results need tender analysis.

Where to start?

When it comes to writing a tender, there are hundreds of questions you could ask potential suppliers but you need to ask the right ones.  You also need to be able to score any question so you can compare different companies.

Using years of experience and hundreds of successful tenders run, we’ve compiled a list of generic questions you can use to assess a company’s suitability for your project. These questions fall into two main categories: corporate information and performance/operation.

Corporate information questions will help you to learn more about the company itself, while performance/operation questions will give you insights into how the company actually runs its business. The corporate information is section is tried and tested over multiple tenders so will need little change. The performance and operation  section works well across multiple spends but may require some changes to suit your company. All edits are easily made to suit your requirements.

By asking both types of question, you’ll be able to get a really good view of the supplier and their capabilities.

Key areas covered include;

Corporate Information

• Company structure and ownership
• Accreditation’s
• Regulatory compliance
• Data and information security
• Business Continuity Plans
• Disaster Recovery Plans
• Corporate Social Responsibilities
• Human Resources
• Financial performance
• Company culture

Performance

• Operational
• Supplier Management
• Skills and competency
• Work capacity
• Technology and data provision
• Service Level Agreements
• Complaint management
• Audit and leakage
• Right First Time measures
• Customer

There are two versions included in the tender analysis;

• smaller number of companies bidding (Version 1)
• multiple bidders (Version 2).

Version 1 allows a more detailed approach, capturing key information points and issues to raise and a revised scoring area after discussions or a visit has taken place. Version 2 is scoring only.

Both formats include a dashboard and pricing analysis tool.