Bid Engine

Growth enabler · BID-2026-013 · Ministry of Defence - DE&S

Growth enabler

Qualify the opportunity, set the win strategy and lock the team before a single requirement is drafted. Every field below is derived from the bid intake form.

Workflow demo · how this assessment is produced

7 agent steps

Press run to watch the governed qualification workflow execute end to end, from raw tender pack to a signed-off bid / no-bid recommendation. Step through it manually if you want to read each stage.

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  1. 1

    Ingest the opportunity

    Intake agent · fn_ingest_bid()

  2. 2

    Score bid / no-bid

    Qualification agent · fn_score_qualification()

  3. 3

    Draft the win strategy

    Strategy agent · fn_build_win_strategy()

  4. 4

    Generate win themes and USPs

    Evidence agent · fn_theme_from_evidence()

  5. 5

    Map focus areas to weighting

    Evaluation agent · fn_map_focus_areas()

  6. 6

    Lock the team and back-plan dates

    Planning agent · fn_backplan_timeline()

  7. 7

    Write to the audit log

    Governance agent · fn_write_audit()

Now running

Ingest the opportunity

Portal notice, buyer profile and tender pack are parsed into structured fields. Value, deadline, regime and evaluation weighting.

Output ledger

  • No steps executed yet.

Bid / no-bid

Weighted score, 5-point scale

70

Weighted score / 100

Recommendation · BID

Secure ML inference enclave · £12.1m · submission 28 Aug 2026. Qualification threshold is 65 points.

  • Strategic fit20%Fit against Ministry of Defence - DE&S and the DEFCON 658 regime.
  • Capability to deliver25%Comparable delivery evidence held in the corporate dossier.
  • Incumbent position15%Incumbent holds part of the scope.
  • Commercial attractiveness20%£12.1m opportunity; commercial posture scored by the commercial lead.
  • Risk & compliance load20%DEFCON 658 obligations plus delivery assurance.

Win strategy

S. Marchetti

Beat the incumbent on assurance, not on price. Present a governed delivery machine the evaluator can audit, backed by cleared people already in post and neutralise the price gap with a gain-share tied to enclave availability.

Route to win
Score maximum on the 55% technical and governance weighting
Competitor
Incumbent holds part of the scope
Price posture
Competitive with gain-share upside
Governance regime
DEFCON 658

Win themes

Every theme carries proof
  • Governed by design

    Layer 12 · n8n / LangGraph

    16-layer governance map, audit log on every agent call

  • Proven at scale

    Asset A · signed entries

    Signed case studies with executive attestation and hash

  • Current by construction

    Asset B · live sources

    Freshness-scored regulatory citations at point of drafting

  • Cleared and credible

    Clearance register · signed

    Security clearance register signed and current

Win focus areas

Mapped to evaluation weighting
  • Technical solution & architecture30%Strong

    Lead with the signed reference architecture and comparable delivery evidence.

  • Governance & assurance · DEFCON 65825%Adequate

    Map every control to the named regime and evidence it from the dossier.

  • Delivery mobilisation10%Strong

    Name the first-90-days team under S. Marchetti.

  • Commercial model35%Strong

    Model the price and gain-share position with T. Bracken.

  • Social value10%Strong

    Assign an owner and a measurable reporting cadence.

Unique selling points

Discriminators injected at runtime
  • Dual-sequence orchestrator

    Draft and adversarial review run in parallel - no other bidder can show it.

    Layer 12 · n8n / LangGraph

  • Signed corporate dossier

    Every claim traceable to a named executive signature and a hash.

    Asset A · signed entries

  • Regulatory signal fabric

    Citations are freshness-scored; stale sources cannot reach a submission.

    Asset B · live sources

  • Cleared and credible people

    Named, cleared delivery team available from day one.

    Clearance register · signed

Key themes extracted from the RFP and client content

2,738 terms across 5 sources

The theme agent reads the tender pack alongside the buyer's fiscal reports, strategy documents and executive statements, clusters the recurring language into themes and scores each one on how hard the buyer pushes it, how much evaluation weighting sits behind it and how well our evidence covers it.

  • RFP1148 terms

    BID-2026-013 · invitation to tender and response schedules

    Requirements, evaluation criteria, response schedules and the draft contract.

    Issued 21 days ago

  • Fiscal612 terms

    Ministry of Defence - DE&S annual report and accounts

    Spend pressure, efficiency commitments and the language the board uses about value.

    Financial year just closed

  • Strategy488 terms

    Ministry of Defence - DE&S corporate strategy and digital plan

    Stated priorities and the outcomes leadership has published against them.

    Current planning cycle

  • Statement216 terms

    Accounting officer and executive statements

    Public commitments made by the people who will sign this contract off.

    Last two quarters

  • Regulatory274 terms

    DEFCON 658 obligations and published guidance

    The control language the assurance answers have to mirror word for word.

    Live source, freshness scored

  • Buyer intensity84%
    Evaluation weighting35%
    Evidence coverage74%

    The annual report and the accounting officer statements are dominated by unit-cost reduction and cash-releasing benefit. Value here means a number a finance director can defend, not a saving narrative.

    Extracted terms

    • efficiency ×41 · Fiscal
    • unit cost ×23 · Fiscal
    • cash releasing ×14 · Fiscal
    • value for money ×31 · Statement
    • whole life cost ×11 · RFP

    Next actionModel the gain-share against measures already published by Ministry of Defence - DE&S so the benefit is checkable.

  • Buyer intensity88%
    Evaluation weighting30%
    Evidence coverage72%
  • Buyer intensity92%
    Evaluation weighting25%
    Evidence coverage62%
  • Buyer intensity76%
    Evaluation weighting10%
    Evidence coverage73%
  • Buyer intensity64%
    Evaluation weighting10%
    Evidence coverage68%

Key people on the bid, buyer side

6 identified · 2 decision makers

Who reads the response, what each of them is actually looking at and which theme lands with them. Profiles are drawn from public sources and confirmed by the account team before the capture plan is signed off.

  • AR

    Dr Alison Reeve

    Director of Technology and Data · Ministry of Defence - DE&S

    Decision maker

    Twenty years across public sector digital delivery, now accountable for the platform estate this contract sits inside. Speaks publicly about buying outcomes rather than headcount.

    What they look atWhether the architecture survives contact with the existing estate, and whether the evidence behind each technical claim is checkable.

    • Delivery capability proven on comparable scope
    • Auditable assurance over the whole delivery
    LinkedIn profile
  • MF

    Mark Fennelly

    Commercial Director · Ministry of Defence - DE&S

    Decision maker

    Career commercial lead with a track record of restructuring supplier contracts mid-term. Chairs the evaluation panel and owns the value-for-money case that goes to the accounting officer.

    What they look atWhole life cost, the mechanics of any gain-share and how much of the risk genuinely transfers to the supplier.

    • Efficiency the finance director can bank
    LinkedIn profile
  • PR

    Priya Raman

    Head of Assurance and DEFCON 658 Compliance · Ministry of Defence - DE&S

    Scorer

    Former regulator-side assurance lead. Writes the compliance questions and marks them personally against the published control set.

    What they look atControl-by-control mapping, named accountable owners and an audit trail that can be replayed after award.

    • Auditable assurance over the whole delivery
    LinkedIn profile
  • JO

    James Okoye

    Service Delivery Lead · Ministry of Defence - DE&S

    Influencer

    Runs the incumbent service day to day and will hold the transition. Sceptical of mobilisation plans after two supplier changes in four years.

    What they look atWho exactly turns up in week one, their clearances, and what happens to continuity during transition.

    • Named, cleared people available from day one
    • Delivery capability proven on comparable scope
    LinkedIn profile
  • HM

    Helen Marsh

    Social Value and Sustainability Manager · Ministry of Defence - DE&S

    Scorer

    Owns the published outcomes framework and scores the social value schedule against measures the organisation already reports.

    What they look atMeasures that map onto existing reporting, with a named owner and a cadence.

    • Public outcomes and social value that get reported
    LinkedIn profile
  • SC

    Stephen Clark

    Procurement Manager · Ministry of Defence - DE&S

    Gatekeeper

    Runs the process and the clarification log. Not a scorer, but controls compliance checks and can reject a submission on form before it is ever read.

    What they look atSchedule compliance, word counts, formatting and the clarification trail.

    LinkedIn profile

Raise the score with the agents

5 available actions

Each action below is a governed agent run that closes a specific gap in the qualification score. Select the runs you intend to commission to see where the weighted score lands before the bid / no-bid decision is ratified.

70

Score today

88

Projected after selected agent runs

Projected recommendation · BID
  • +6 pts

    Pull the incumbent's published performance and prior outcomes from the bid library, then aim the displacement argument at the weakest service line.

    Competitor agent · fn_read_incumbent() · 2 days · Layer 7 · Bid Library outcomes

  • +5 pts

    Map each DEFCON 658 obligation to a control, an owner and a piece of evidence, then run the adversarial pass over the assurance answers.

    Governance agent · fn_map_controls() · 3 days · Signal Fabric · freshness scored guidance

  • +3 pts

    Harvest three comparable deliveries from the dossier, attach signed outcomes and retire every claim that has no proof behind it.

    Evidence agent · fn_harvest_comparables() · 2 days · NN Data Dossier · signed case entries

  • +2 pts

    Rebuild the price with a gain-share tied to measures Ministry of Defence - DE&S already publishes, and price the risk transfer explicitly.

    Commercial agent · fn_model_gainshare() · 2 days · Commercial model · gain-share library

  • +2 pts

    Align the win narrative to the buyer's published strategy and executive statements so the fit argument uses their own words.

    Strategy agent · fn_align_to_published_plan() · 1 day · Theme extraction · strategy and statements

Agent drafting

Human review before anything is submitted

The scored questions are drafted by named agents against these themes and queued for a human owner to accept, amend or reject.

Open the agent drafting queue

Key people for the bid

Named, not notional
  • MA

    S. Marchetti · Bid Director

    Owns the submission and the go/no-go recommendation

    60%
  • AD

    P. Adeyemi · Solution Lead

    Technical architecture and solution narrative

    50%
  • OK

    J. Okonjo · Governance Lead

    DEFCON 658 compliance and assurance answers

    40%
  • BR

    T. Bracken · Commercial Lead

    Price build, gain-share model, contract risk

    35%
  • LI

    H. Lindqvist · Evidence Lead

    Dossier freshness, lineage and provenance

    30%

Timelines

Submission 28 Aug 2026
  1. 27 Jul 2026

    Bid / no-bid decision ratified

    Board

  2. 31 Jul 2026

    Win strategy and themes locked

    S. Marchetti

  3. 07 Aug 2026

    Compliance matrix complete and assigned

    Assignment Agent

  4. 14 Aug 2026

    Pink review

    Review Agent

  5. 21 Aug 2026

    Red review · evidence and numbers

    Review Agent

  6. 25 Aug 2026

    Gold review · adversarial

    J. Okonjo

  7. 27 Aug 2026

    One-voice sweep and final compliance check

    Editorial Agent

  8. 28 Aug 2026

    Submission

    S. Marchetti