For public & government tenders

One missed mandatory, and the whole bid is void.


Open procurement runs on rules. A single unmet mandatory criterion, a late lodgement, or a probity slip, and weeks of work are non-conforming before the price is even read. The deciding clause is somewhere in six hundred pages of standard conditions.

What makes public tenders unforgiving

The bid you lose on a technicality is the most expensive kind.

Mandatory criteria

Pass/fail gates are scattered across schedules. Miss one and you are excluded, however strong the rest of the response is.

Probity & conformance

Strict format, weighting and lodgement rules leave no room to improvise. The evaluators cannot reward what the rules make them ignore.

Volume of boilerplate

The clause that decides conformance hides in hundreds of pages of standard government conditions nobody reads end to end.

The three axes, tuned for open procurement

Conforming first. Compelling second.

selrob reads the conditions, the schedules and the evaluation criteria together, then tests them against your firm.

Strategy

Is this aligned to the agencies, panels and categories you are accredited and positioned for?

Capacity

Can you meet every mandatory criterion and the stated evaluation weightings — not just most of them?

Risk

Conformance, probity and liability. What would make this response non-conforming before it is scored?

Tender
Fit
Capacity
Risk
Call
State transport panel — RFT 5521
90%
All mandatories met
Conforming
Bid
Council waste services — open tender
36%
Two mandatories unmet
Late-lodgement risk
No-bid
Health dept ICT panel
64%
Accreditation pending
Weighting unclear
Review

One tender, in full

A conformance check you can hand to the bid team on day one.

Not just a score. selrob names the mandatory you have not met, the format rule that risks exclusion, and the panel category you match. You know if it is winnable before anyone drafts a word.

Fit assessment
Open tender · government
Strategy
Matches panel category
81
Capacity
One mandatory unmet — local presence
1 gap
Risk
Non-conforming format risk
1 clause
Recommend: bid, close the mandatory gap first.
34 criteria
Mapped pass or fail
Zero
Mandatories missed
Conforming
Format checked before lodgement

Bring the last public tender you were excluded from.

A 30-minute call. We’ll run it through selrob and show you the mandatory it would have caught.