Plain notes on using AI for tender responses
Using AI on a tender, with a person in charge
Tender and bid responses are long, strict and easy to get wrong. These notes explain where an AI tool can help with reading, drafting and checking, and where it can't. Each page points to the official guidance or the maker's own documents.
All the bid notes
What AI can and cannot do in a tender responseWhere AI tools genuinely help when you write a bid, and which jobs a person has to do, with checks from government guidance.
Reading a long tender document with AIHow to use an AI tool to pull requirements, dates and questions out of a tender pack, and how to check nothing was missed or made up.
Building a library of your own past answersHow to collect your business's real answers and facts so an AI tool drafts from evidence, plus what to keep out of the library.
Drafting answers to selection criteriaHow to get a usable first draft for each selection criterion from an AI tool, then make it true, specific and checkable before you submit.
Checking a draft against the requirementsA step-by-step way to confirm every tender question is answered and every mandatory item is covered, using a tool for gaps and a person for sign-off.
Keeping tender documents private when you use AI toolsWhat to check before pasting a tender or your pricing into an AI tool, using privacy guidance, a maker's own data terms and buyer rules.
When a buyer limits or asks about AI useWhat to do if a tender bans AI, asks you to declare it, or says nothing, with the UK government's example disclosure questions as a worked case.