Do you qualify?
Check before you bid.

A tender document describes an opportunity. Its pre-qualification requirements determine whether your business is eligible to pursue it. Checking those requirements before preparing a response helps your team focus its effort on tenders it can realistically compete for.

TenderTiger helps you generate custom document summaries, extract pre-qualification (PQ) criteria and use agents to check those criteria against your business information. You can train the agents instantly by sharing a few past bids you have submitted.

Here is how to bring those capabilities into your bid/no-bid process.

Start with the requirements, not the price bid

Before your team spends time pricing a BOQ or drafting a technical response, ask: do we meet the tender's mandatory requirements, and can we demonstrate it?

Depending on the tender, your review may cover:

• Relevant experience: Does your completed work match the scope, size and period specified?
• Financial requirements: Do your records meet the stated turnover or other financial criteria?
• Technical capability: Can you demonstrate the equipment, personnel or delivery capability requested?
• Registrations and certifications: Are the required documents applicable and current?
• Supporting evidence: Can you provide the certificates, records and declarations requested?

These are examples of what to examine, not a universal eligibility checklist. The requirements in the specific tender document govern your assessment.

Generate a custom summary for your eligibility review

Your commercial team may want a broad overview. The person checking eligibility needs a more focused summary.

With TenderTiger, you can generate a custom summary around the information you need. For a qualification review, begin with the requirements that affect your decision to bid.

EXAMPLE PROMPT Generate a custom summary focused on pre-qualification requirements, mandatory supporting documents and conditions that need further review.

This is an illustrative prompt to try in your document workflow. Check the generated summary against the original document and any corrigenda so that important conditions are not overlooked.

Extract PQ criteria and compare them with your business

TenderTiger's AI tools help extract PQ criteria from tender documents. Its PQ agents help check your business information against those requirements and assess whether you qualify.

The central question is whether each requirement is supported by evidence. A description of your capabilities is useful, but the tender may ask for particular records in a prescribed format.

As your team reviews the assessment, identify which requirements are supported, which need additional evidence and which need clarification. Resolve those gaps before making the final bid decision.

Train your agents instantly with past submitted bids

You do not need to start from a blank page. Share a few bids your company has previously submitted to train TenderTiger's agents instantly.

Those past bids give the agents company information to work with. The trained agents can help check PQ eligibility, auto-fill annexures, attach supporting documents and auto-fill the price bid.

Choose past bids that are relevant to your current business. Before reusing their contents, review:

• Whether company details and financial records are current.
• Whether experience and completion documents match the new requirements.
• Whether certifications and supporting documents remain valid.
• Whether previous prices and commercial commitments are appropriate for the new bid.

A past bid is a starting point. The new tender still needs its own eligibility, document and pricing review.

A practical example: qualifying for an equipment tender

Imagine an equipment supplier reviewing a tender that requires similar-contract experience, financial records and a particular certification. This is an illustrative scenario, not a customer case study.

1. Understand: Generate a custom summary focused on those requirements.
2. Extract: Review the PQ criteria extracted from the tender document.
3. Train: Share a few previously submitted bids with the agents.
4. Check: Use a PQ agent to assess the requirements against company information.
5. Verify: Confirm that the supporting records meet the exact conditions in the new tender.
6. Decide: Proceed, obtain missing evidence or seek clarification through the buyer's prescribed process.

For example, a previous contract may look similar but fall outside the experience period specified in the new document. That detail can change the qualification decision and should be resolved before full bid preparation.

Qualification is one part of the bid/no-bid decision

Meeting PQ requirements does not automatically make a tender a good business decision. Your team should also assess delivery capacity, preparation time, costs and commercial terms.

Use a simple decision sequence:

• Eligibility: Do we meet the mandatory requirements?
• Evidence: Can we demonstrate that in the requested format?
• Delivery: Can we fulfil the scope and schedule?
• Commercial fit: Does the opportunity make sense for our business?

Tiger IQ, TenderTiger's bid intelligence service, can support the wider decision through past-bid comparisons and bidder and pricing predictions. Those insights inform your competitive strategy; qualification must still be established against the tender requirements.

Move from qualification to preparation

Once you have checked eligibility and decided to proceed, use the trained agents to help auto-fill annexures, attach supporting documents and prepare the price bid.

Your authorised team should verify the draft against the latest tender documents, confirm the supporting evidence and approve the final figures before submission. An AI-assisted PQ assessment supports your review; the buyer determines eligibility under the tender's conditions.

Try a PQ check on your next tender

Choose one relevant tender document and a few past bids you have submitted. Generate a custom summary, examine the extracted PQ criteria and use an agent-assisted check to guide your team's review.

Ask your TenderTiger account manager for a walkthrough of custom summaries, PQ checks and instant agent training available to your account.