RFP Response Engine
A tender is an exam with an anonymous marker — you do not persuade it, you score against it.
What it is
The tender that arrived by email, handled as a scored examination with an anonymous marker rather than a sales conversation written down. Decides bid or no-bid on evidence, deconstructs the pack into a compliance matrix with named evidence owners, writes to the published weightings, prices inside the buyer's template and names the mismatch, and closes with the dry run and the debrief requested win or lose. For agencies, contractors, manufacturers and anyone selling through a procurement department.
What you receive
a formal tender answered like a scored examination rather than a sales pitch — the bid/no-bid verdict owned before anyone writes a word, the compliance matrix that stops a disqualification on a technicality, answers written to the published rubric, pricing decided inside the buyer's own template, the clarification questions that move the ground legitimately, and the debrief that makes the next bid cheaper
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “how to decide bid or no bid on an rfp”
- “compliance matrix template so we don't get disqualified”
- “how do tender evaluators actually score written answers”
- “rfp answer is over the word limit what do I cut”
- “what clarification questions to ask during a tender”
Record
lineage: first-party house build
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.