What’s inside the Tender Response.
14 pages with real content in place. Rewrite them, reorder them, or add your own.
- 1Page 1Cover: the council, ITT reference, lot and procedure, the deadline, submission and validity, the bid contact, a contents list mapping each section to the ITT question, weighting and page, and the weightings as one bar
- 2Page 2Compliance matrix: 22 requirements in three groups (conditions of participation, specification, commercial), each with its type, Comply or Clarified and where it is answered, a tally and the footnote for the clarification
- 3Page 3Executive summary: the outcome, go-live date and price up front, the council’s three priorities in its own words with our solution to each, four discriminators with evidence, and the whole-life price
- 4Page 4Understanding of the requirement (Q1): today’s services in numbers, the residents who use them and their top tasks, what the council must achieve by 2028, and the constraints we have planned for
- 5Page 5Method statement, delivery approach (Q2): discovery, alpha, beta and go-live with dates, what each delivers and the council’s decision at the end of each, and how the joint team works, is governed and handles change
- 6Page 6Method statement, platform, content and forms (Q2): an architecture diagram, then the content model and workflow, the 140 forms by tier, resident accounts, integrations and the translation approach, each against its SR line
- 7Page 7Method statement, accessibility and user research (Q3): WCAG 2.2 AA from design to live, research with 96 residents by phase including disabled and digitally excluded people, and assisted digital
- 8Page 8Method statement, security, hosting and data (Q4): UK hosting and availability, backups and recovery, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus, penetration testing and patching, UK GDPR roles, the DPIA and breach handling
- 9Page 9Mobilisation, service management and exit (Q5–Q6): the first 30 days week by week, migration and training, the service desk and SLAs by priority, reporting, continuous improvement and the exit plan
- 10Page 10Social value (Q7): six commitments against the council’s TOMs (local apprenticeships, work placements, spend with Wrenfield SMEs and VCSEs, digital skills sessions, volunteering hours, carbon), each with a measure, a target and its reporting, then delivery and accountability
- 11Page 11Team and case studies: an organogram joining our team to the council’s, the named team with roles, days and experience, and two council projects with results and referees
- 12Page 12Risks and programme: a seven-line risk register with likelihood, impact, owner and mitigation, and the 38-week implementation programme to go-live with the council’s decision points
- 13Page 13Pricing schedule (Schedule 4): fixed prices by phase, service charges by contract year with the extension years shown apart, the contract and whole-life prices, day rates for change, invoicing and indexation
- 14Page 14Declarations and Form of Tender: the offer and its validity, eight declarations (bona fide tender, conflicts, exclusion grounds, platform, insurance, modern slavery, prompt payment, FOI), the signature block and the appendices
When to use it.
Tender Response is a 14-page bid for agencies and consultancies answering a public-sector Invitation to Tender, shown here for a council’s new website, forms and resident accounts. It follows the ITT’s own order: a compliance matrix that maps every requirement to where it’s answered, an executive summary, understanding of the requirement, a four-part method statement, mobilisation and service levels, social value against the buyer’s TOMs, team and case studies, a risk register and programme, the pricing schedule and the signed Form of Tender. The prices, team days and dates agree on every page.
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- Step 1
Replace the buyer, ITT reference, deadline and weightings on the cover with the ones in your tender.
- Step 2
Copy every requirement from the ITT into the compliance matrix, then answer each one in the section it points to.
- Step 3
Paste each quality question into its grey box and rewrite the answer to the word limit, with your own evidence.
- Step 4
Enter your phase prices, service charges and day rates in the pricing schedule and check the whole-life price.
- Step 5
Have a director check and sign the declarations, then export the response to PDF for the council’s portal.
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