How it runs today
- 01The documents arrive as a PDF bundle, sometimes with hundreds of items.
- 02Someone skims them and decides whether costing is worth it.
- 03If it is costed, items are matched by hand against your own range of services.
Use case · Mechanical engineering
Tenders in mechanical engineering
In mechanical engineering a tender arrives as a specification: technical requirements, standards, interfaces and acceptance conditions across sixty pages. Whether your own works can supply it is not stated in one line item but spread across the whole document.
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What is different here
What it actually turns on in mechanical engineering.
01
Requirements sit in running text
Not a bill of quantities with line items but requirement sentences - “shall”, “should”, “may”. The distinction decides the effort and is reliably missed when skimming.
02
Standards are exclusion criteria
Machinery directive, CE, sector-specific standards, sometimes a customer's own works standards. Whatever cannot be met makes the entire costing pointless - and it usually sits in an annex.
03
The delivery date is the hardest line
Special machinery hangs on bought-in parts with long lead times. Whether a date will hold is only known once the critical items have been enquired about.
Systems we connect here
- abas
- proALPHA
- Tender platforms
- PLM
- Supplier portals
If yours is not listed, that is not an exclusion. Where no interface exists, we build one - that is the most demanding part and it is our trade.
The rule that only applies here
In mechanical engineering the exclusion criterion sits in running text, not in a line item. Skim the document and you find it reliably too late.
The difference
The same process, once as it is today and once with us.
- 01Documents
- 02Review
- 03Matching
A person does itThe system does it
How it would run with us
- 01The bundle is read out in full, even at hundreds of items.
- 02The item list is held against your range of services, with exclusion and eligibility criteria alongside.
- 03You get an assessment with reasons and decide whether to take part.
What it gets you
- A tender document is read through, even at three hundred line items.
- The decision whether to bid takes a day instead of a week.
- No tender is missed because nobody had time that week.
Where it does not fit
Where an award turns on references and relationships, an evaluation helps little - there it is not the document that decides.
Frequently asked
Is this worth it in mechanical engineering?
In mechanical engineering the exclusion criterion sits in running text, not in a line item. Skim the document and you find it reliably too late. Whether it pays for you depends on your volume - the audit establishes that.
We use a different system from the ones listed. Does it still work?
Yes. The ones listed are those we most often meet in mechanical engineering - a list, not a precondition. Where no interface exists, we build one.
What do we have to provide?
Your range of services in structured form - a list is enough, it only has to be complete. Ten to twenty past tenders together with the decision you took at the time. A contact in costing for the questions of the first weeks. Nothing more is needed to start.
How will we know it works?
Across 20 real tenders the "cost it / drop it" recommendation agrees with yours in at least 85 %. The item list is read out in full - verified by spot check against the PDF. No bid is submitted without a person looking at it.
How long does implementation take?
5 to 8 weeks - the most demanding of the eight cases.
Does the AI decide on its own?
The evaluation runs independently; the decision to take part is made by a person. A tender wrongly dropped is never seen again.
When is this not worth it?
Where an award turns on references and relationships, an evaluation helps little - there it is not the document that decides.
The same process, in general
This page shows the fit in mechanical engineering. The process itself is sector-independent - what matters is whether it repeats.
Tenders in generalLet us start with a conversation.
You tell us where your time goes. We put it in writing: what is worth automating, and roughly what that costs.
