What do I need to use Bid / Tender Review?

The bid / quote itself; Scope of work / bid documents; Contract form and delivery method; Competing bids (optional); Project specifics that drive cost.

Is Bid / Tender Review free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Bid / Tender Review

Q: How do I know the Bid / Tender Review output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every exclusion and qualification in the bid appears in the risk table — none skipped as boilerplate; Each scope gap cites where the work lives in the bid documents (spec section / drawing); Cost exposure is estimated or explicitly marked `[to price]` — never silently ignored; Front-loading check compares SoV values to real early-work cost, not just percentages in isolation.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-14 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-construction

Analyse a construction bid or tender package for scope gaps, risk-shifting exclusions, unit-rate red flags, and front-loading in the schedule of values. Use when asked to review a bid, level bids, check a tender for gaps, compare sub quotes, or vet a schedule of values before award. Produces a structured bid review with a gap register, exclusion risk table, pricing red flags, and an award recommendation with pre-award clarifications.

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What to give it

▸The bid / quote itself — pricing, exclusions, qualifications, allowances, schedule of values if given

▸Scope of work / bid documents — drawings list, spec sections, or at least a scope narrative

▸Contract form and delivery method — (lump sum, GMP, unit price, design-build) — it changes what "excluded" means

▸Competing bids (optional) — (optional, for levelling) and the engineer's/internal estimate if one exists

▸Project specifics that drive cost — site access, phasing, working hours, bonding/insurance requirements

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Every exclusion and qualification in the bid appears in the risk table — none skipped as boilerplate

✓Each scope gap cites where the work lives in the bid documents (spec section / drawing)

✓Cost exposure is estimated or explicitly marked `[to price]` — never silently ignored

✓Front-loading check compares SoV values to real early-work cost, not just percentages in isolation

✓Recommendation is conditional on the clarification list, and every clarification is answerable before award

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not pick the low bid on price alone — level scope first; a $200k gap eats a $150k spread

Do not treat "excluded" and "not mentioned" as the same — silence in a bid is a claim waiting to happen

Do not accept allowances as pricing — an allowance is the bidder's guess spent with your money

Do not wave through mobilisation and general-conditions front-loading as "normal" without checking it against cost

Do not resolve ambiguity in the bidder's favour by assumption — put it on the pre-award clarification list in writing

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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