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The situation
A tender arrives as a long document with requirements distributed through it: in the technical specification, in the commercial conditions, in annexes, and in clauses that modify other clauses.
The bid team's exposure is not usually that an answer was weak. It is that a requirement was never extracted, so there is no answer at all, and the submission is non-compliant on a point nobody argued about.
Why it is hard
Requirements do not announce themselves
Obligation language varies: shall, must, is to be, the bidder will. Extraction that keys on one form misses the rest.
Clauses modify other clauses
An annex can qualify a requirement in the main body. Reading them independently produces two answers where the tender wanted one.
The response has to be mapped back
Compliance review means showing which part of the response addresses which requirement, which is a mapping problem rather than a writing problem.
How we approach it
Agentix extracts the obligations from the tender, including cross-references between the body and its annexes, and produces a requirement list with the clause reference for each. Draft responses are then mapped back to requirements so gaps are visible as gaps.
Where a clause is modified elsewhere in the document, both the base requirement and the modification are carried, so the bid team answers the requirement as it actually stands.
What changes
- A requirement list extracted from the whole document, annexes included
- Cross-references between body and annex resolved rather than read separately
- Response mapped to requirement so unanswered obligations are visible
- Every extracted requirement cites its clause
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