Independent bid review for EPC, BOT/PPP & DBOM tenders
Win the right bids.
Protect the right margin.
An independent senior bid review of your largest EPC, BOT and DBOM tenders, before the board commits.
Paris · Working worldwide
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Before submission
Most bids are decided long before they are submitted.
Qualification, price and risk allocation are fixed early. That is where an independent challenge still changes the outcome.
02 / 03 · Decide early
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On your side of the table
30 years of experience, most of them leading multi-hundred-million bids.
Desalination, oil & gas, petrochemicals, industrial utilities and waste-to-energy, across Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Australia.
03 / 03 · Senior judgement
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At a glance
Senior judgement.
Six ways to intervene.
Cover Intelligence works with a small network of senior freelance specialists, engaged per mission.
Years of experience
Decision gates, qualification to submission
Contract models · EPC · LSTK · BOT · DBOM · PPP
Sectors · water · oil & gas · petrochemicals · utilities · waste-to-energy
Solutions · one senior point of contact
No junior teams, no hand-offs. The person who scopes the mission is the person who delivers it.
We challenge qualification, price and risk while the offer can still change, and say plainly whether to go, reposition or walk away.
Solutions
A fast, independent read on whether the opportunity deserves your team and your capital. It ends with a clear GO, REPOSITION or NO-GO.
Contingency, escalation, site overheads and indirect costs challenged before the price is locked.
Your offer scored the way the client’s evaluation committee will score it, weeks before they do.
Won and lost bids turned into decision rules your next tender can actually use.
Case-based sessions for bid, commercial and project directors, built on anonymised real tenders.
Gate governance and qualification rules your organisation owns and runs itself.
The method
Four decisions.
One bid.
Should we pursue it?
Client and funding profile, contract terms, win probability against pursuit cost.
Decision owner
Commercial director
Output
GO / NO-GO decision
How should we bid?
Evaluation criteria, partner and JV split, the themes that will make the offer win.
Decision owner
Bid director
Output
Bid strategy charter
What should we commit to?
Estimate maturity, contingency, risk allowances and margin against risk appetite.
Decision owner
Executive committee
Output
Price authorisation
Can we defend the offer?
Compliance, final risk transfer and readiness for the client’s oral defence.
Decision owner
Executive sponsor
Output
Release to submit
Recognised references
Judgement, checked against recognised practice.
Experience decides what to look for. Published practice makes the finding hard to argue with.
PDRI
Construction Industry Institute
How complete is the scope?
Scope definition scored before submission, so missing interfaces and battery-limit gaps show up while they can still be priced.
AACE
AACE International
Is the estimate realistic?
Estimate maturity, contingency and escalation checked against recognised classification practice.
APMP
Association of Proposal Management Professionals
Will the offer score?
Red and gold team reviews run the way the evaluation committee reads: compliance first, then value.
Independent, not affiliated
References.
Not memberships.
PDRI (Construction Industry Institute), AACE International and APMP are cited as independent methodological references. Cover Intelligence is not a member of, certified by, affiliated with or endorsed by these organisations.
See how a bid
holds up.
Every diagnostic ends in a plain verdict, with the few numbers that justify it.
Gate 03 · Price review · Illustrative
Scope definition
Solid
Estimate & contingency
Short by 14%
Interfaces
2 unassigned
Liability exposure
Above appetite
Verdict
Reposition
Illustrative example. No client data.
“The room argues about decisions, not theory.”
Training
Build the capability inside your organisation.
Case-based sessions on anonymised real tenders, won and lost, for bid, commercial and project directors: qualification discipline, cost realism, oral defence under pressure.
Next step
Before you commit to this bid, get an independent read.
A confidential 30-minute conversation with a senior bid director, under mutual NDA.