Read what the contractor wrote — and what they didn't.

Yes — on the Express tier. Five days, one package, two bidders, USD 12,000 fixed. We compress to the high-leverage artefacts: scope-delta log, qualification register, four-page award memo. No full TQI™ scoring on Express. Useful when you've already shortlisted commercially and need the technical second-read before the next procurement board.

We work under your NDA with each bidder, typically as a named third party. Bid documents stay in your data room — we view at our secure workspace, never store, never redistribute. Every finding cites a specific bid line and revision number but is delivered as a separate Upterix document, never as annotation on the bidder's sealed submission.

By default, no. Clarification questions go out under your procurement team's letterhead, not ours. Bidders see standard pre-award clarifications, not a third-party audit. If you want the review attribution disclosed (some hyperscale tenants prefer it for paper-trail reasons), we author the cover note jointly with your procurement counsel.

The award memo includes a dissenting-opinion clause. If your team sees the same evidence differently, we document both reads — ours and theirs — with the rationale per finding. The Independence Pledge requires us to publish disagreement, not bury it. The final award decision is yours; the paper trail records why.

QS reviews the price. We read the technical wording around the price — defined terms, exclusions, risk allocations, capability claims, programme assumptions. The two complement each other. We share the Excel matrix with your QS so they roll our findings into their commercial scoring; we never duplicate the commercial line items they own.

Yes — on Standard and Comprehensive tiers. We brief your procurement team on the questions in writing first, then join the call as silent observers or as named technical leads, your choice. We do not negotiate commercial terms; we read the bidder's verbal answers against the written ones for consistency and flag any drift.

No. We work fixed-fee or on retainer for the original engagement and decline equity, success fees or any interest in the re-tender outcome. If you want us to read the re-tender bids, that is a separate Express engagement at the same fixed fee. Independence is structural — we walk before we compromise it.

That is what it is built for. We write in OCP-Ready aligned format — executive summary, scoring matrix, qualification register, risk-allocation heat-map, programme realism overlay, clarification log, dissenting opinion. The same structure the tenant's audit reviewer reads in. If their audit returns findings on the award memo itself, we re-open the engagement at no additional fee for a fortnight.