What the Mock Evaluator does
Bidligence's Super Intelligence is briefed as the chair of the client's tender evaluation committee. It is told to score the draft strictly against the tender's weighted evaluation criteria, as a real evaluator would, and to be tough and specific, because vague praise helps nobody. Whether the tender comes from a World Bank-financed project, an EU call or a national portal in Kenya, India or the UK, the criteria are the ones the analysis read from that tender, not a fixed template.
For each scoring run it reads:
- The tender analysis: the evaluation criteria with their weights and descriptions, the evaluation method, the mandatory pass/fail requirements, the key personnel required, the scope, the standards, and any returnable schedules or prescribed format.
- The completed documents generated for this bid, as last saved, so your own edits count. Each is read from its start up to a fixed length.
- The priced BOQ in summary: the total, each bill's subtotal and item count, and your margin.
- Your evidence pack, which it is told is what you can actually prove: the company profile, the Company Vault items with their issue and expiry dates (an expired item is marked as expired), and your approved library content. Commitments your team recorded for this bid on the Decide step are in front of it too.
It never reads the Bid Preparation Report. That is your team's internal working paper, with its margin narrative and candid weaknesses, and no real evaluation committee would see it.
How it works
The Mock Evaluator sits on the Review step of the bid wizard, after Generate, and in the bid's Documents tab as Mock Evaluation. It runs only when you ask for it. In order:
- 1Check the criteria. Once the tender is analysed, the Analysis tab lists its evaluation criteria with their weights. If one was misread, correct it with Edit analysis: the evaluator scores against what the analysis holds.
- 2Set a target. On the Configure step, the target evaluation score slider runs from 50 to 100 and starts at 85. The Mock Evaluator shows how far the draft is from it.
- 3Generate the package. The Mock Evaluator is not part of the generation run. With no documents generated yet, it scores the BOQ and the evidence pack alone.
- 4Score the draft. On the Review step, press Score this draft. The score appears beside your target, and the Mock evaluation tab opens on the full result.
- 5Fix the weak points. Edit a document, regenerate one with instructions, reprice the BOQ or add the missing evidence to your Company Vault.
- 6Re-score. Press Re-score draft. Each run replaces the previous result and raises its version number, so note the old score if you want to compare.
What you get
The result opens in its own tab on the Review step and stays on the bid:
- An overall score out of 100 with a short summary. The overall is arithmetic, not the model's say-so: Bidligence recomputes each weighted score as score × weight ÷ 100 and the overall as the weighted average of the criteria.
- Your target beside it. The Review step shows the target and either "On target" or how many points short the draft is, and the bid's overview lists the mock score next to the target.
- Pass/fail issues, apart from the score, in a red panel: missing mandatory documents or evidence, unverified claims and non-compliance, which can eliminate a bid whatever it scores.
- A card for each criterion: its weight, its score out of 100 and its weighted score, a bar that is green from 75, amber from 50 and red below, and its strengths, weaknesses and improvements. The evaluator is asked for three to six strengths and weaknesses per criterion.
- Top actions: the evaluator is asked for the five fixes with the most impact, ranked, and they are shown as a numbered list.
- An editable record. Edit any score or comment. Weighted scores and the overall are recalculated when you save, and the result is marked as manually edited.
How the score adds up
An illustration of the arithmetic, not a real tender: four criteria weighted 40, 30, 20 and 10, scored against a target of 85.
When the criterion weights in the result do not total 100, as can happen when a tender's own weights do not, the overall is the sum of the weighted scores divided by the total of the weights, times 100. With weights totalling 90, a draft is not marked down for the 10 points the tender never assigned, and the overall stays on a scale of 100.
| Criterion | Weight | Score | Weighted score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Methodology and work plan | 40 | 70 | 28 |
| Relevant experience | 30 | 80 | 24 |
| Key personnel | 20 | 60 | 12 |
| HSE and quality | 10 | 90 | 9 |
| Overall | 100 | 73 |
Against a target of 85, the Review step would read 12 points short. In a result like this, the heaviest-weighted criterion and the lowest score are the first places to look, and the top actions give the evaluator's ranking of the fixes.
How it connects to the rest of the bid desk
The Mock Evaluator scores what the rest of the bid desk produced, and its findings send you back into it:
- The Bid Score asks whether a tender is worth bidding, before you price it. The Mock Evaluator asks how good your draft is, once it exists. Commitments you record on the Decide step to close a gap reach the evaluator too.
- Evidence-locked AI writes company facts only from your evidence and flags what it could not ground as unverified claims. The evaluator is told to list unverified claims among the pass/fail issues, apart from its score.
- The Company Vault is where the evidence pack comes from. When a weakness is thin proof, upload the evidence there, regenerate the document that needs it and re-score.
- The priced BOQ reaches it in summary, with your margin. Without one, the draft is scored on its written content and evidence alone.
- The Submission Guard turns the tender's mandatory forms, certificates and format rules into a checklist matched to your evidence; the Mock Evaluator judges the content against the criteria. Use both before you submit.
- Bid exports leave the Mock Evaluation out. It is not among the export files or in the package ZIP, and it is kept out of the tender's own forms when Bidligence completes them.
- Hunter, the bid agent, does not run the Mock Evaluator from a chat; you run it on the bid.
Its limits, and your control
The Mock Evaluator is a rehearsal. Know where it stops:
- It is not the real panel's score. It does not predict or promise a score, a ranking or an award. The evaluation belongs to the procuring entity, and the real panel can compare your bid with the others, which no rehearsal sees.
- It scores against the analysis. If the analysis misread a criterion or a weight, the score follows the misreading. The criteria in the result are written by Super Intelligence, so compare them with the tender's own evaluation section.
- It reads excerpts. Each generated document is read from its start up to a fixed length, so the end of a long document may go unread, and in a large vault the evidence pack is cut to its opening part.
- It reads Bidligence's generated documents, not your whole submission. The tender's own forms as Bidligence completes them, the Submission Guard checklist, the design drawings and any document you write outside Bidligence are not in front of it. Files in your Company Vault reach it only as evidence.
- It does not re-score by itself. After you edit a document, reprice the BOQ or add evidence, press Re-score draft. A re-score cannot start while the bid's package is generating.
- An edited score is your judgement. The arithmetic is recomputed on save, but a score you typed is no longer the evaluator's.
- Running or editing it needs the Finance role or higher: Finance, Technical lead, Bid manager and Admin members. Viewers and Reviewers cannot.
- It uses credits. Each scoring run is charged the credits it actually consumed, and the charge is recorded in your workspace's credit ledger against the Mock Evaluator. A statement of the ledger is available from support on request.
Which plans include it
Mock Evaluator scoring is part of Starter (US$399 a month) and Pro (US$799 a month), each starting with a 3-day free trial, and of Enterprise. It runs on the same plans that generate the bid documents. A free workspace gets 500 welcome credits once its e-mail is confirmed: enough to analyse a tender, which reads the evaluation criteria and weights the Mock Evaluator scores against, get its Bid Score and see its BOQ priced. See pricing.
Questions
- Will the real evaluation panel give us the same score?
- Not necessarily, and the Mock Evaluator does not claim it will. It is a rehearsal: one strict reading of your draft against the criteria and weights read from the tender. The real panel has its own members and judgement, reads your full submission and can compare your bid with the others. Use the mock score to find weak points, not to forecast the result.
- Where do the criteria and weights come from?
- From the tender analysis, which reads the evaluation criteria, their weights and the evaluation method from the tender documents you uploaded. They are listed in the bid's Analysis tab; if one is wrong, correct it with Edit analysis and re-score.
- What if the tender's weights do not add up to 100?
- The overall is a weighted average: the weighted scores added up, divided by the total of the weights, times 100. It stays on a scale of 100, and when the weights do total 100 it equals the plain sum of the weighted scores.
- Does the Mock Evaluation go to the client?
- No. It is not among the export files or in the package ZIP, it is kept out of the tender's own forms when Bidligence completes them, and the Bid Preparation Report is not built from it. It stays on the bid as your team's internal rehearsal.
- How is it different from the Bid Score?
- The Bid Score comes before pricing and asks whether the tender is worth bidding, on six fixed factors. The Mock Evaluator comes after the documents are drafted and scores them against the tender's own criteria. One decides whether to bid; the other shows how to strengthen the bid you are making.
- Can I run it on the free plan?
- No. Like generating the bid documents, it needs Starter or Pro, each with a 3-day free trial, or Enterprise. A free workspace's 500 welcome credits, granted once your e-mail is confirmed, cover analysing a tender, its Bid Score and a priced BOQ.