Bid
Strong fit, realistic deadline, confirmed compliance path, available owners, and evidence that supports a differentiated response.
Free Pursuit Intelligence
AI Bid/No-Bid Scorecard
Upload your RFP, add quick company signals, and get a pursuit scorecard in under 2 minutes. Make objective bidding decisions before the proposal sprint.
Sample scorecard
A decision aid before the proposal sprint
The output should help the team decide whether to commit, pause for clarification, or redirect capacity.
Recommendation
Caution
Pursuit score
64/100
Top risks
Partial mandatory fit, compressed timeline, missing evidence, and limited pricing/legal availability.
Next step
Confirm requirements and owners before assigning proposal writers.
Red flags
Common RFP red flags
A bad-fit RFP can consume the same proposal hours as a strong-fit one, but with a much lower chance of useful return.
Mandatory requirements are unclear, weak, or not currently met.
The deadline leaves little time for pricing, legal review, attachments, and executive approval.
The buyer context is cold and there is no clear differentiator.
Required certifications, insurance, bonds, or forms are missing.
The opportunity is outside your strongest past performance lane.
Internal SMEs cannot support the response within the required timeline.
Decision logic
When to bid vs no-bid
Use the scorecard as a forcing function for fit, compliance, capacity, and timing.
Caution
Potentially valuable, but one or two gaps must be resolved before the team spends serious drafting time.
No-bid
Weak fit, missing mandatory requirements, impossible timeline, poor relationship context, or no credible path to a competitive response.
After the decision
How BidPacto helps after a Go or Caution result
BidPacto turns a pursuit decision into a structured RFP response workflow with requirements, evidence, drafting, and export controls.
For a Go result, upload the RFP and generate a compliance matrix before drafting begins.
For a Caution result, use BidPacto to expose requirements, missing evidence, and review owners early.
Generate source-backed first drafts from approved company content once the team confirms fit.
Track missing information, answer status, and export readiness before the final submission package leaves the workspace.
FAQ
Bid/no-bid checker questions
Is this bid/no-bid checker a replacement for a capture review?
No. It is a fast planning scorecard that helps surface fit, deadline, compliance, and resource risk before a deeper internal review.
Do I need to upload the full RFP?
No. You can paste a concise opportunity summary. If you upload a file, use a short non-confidential excerpt for the free checker.
What does Caution mean?
Caution means the opportunity may be worth pursuing, but the team should resolve the highest-risk gaps before writing the full proposal.
How is this different from the proposal answer checker?
The bid/no-bid checker is for pursuit decisions before writing. The proposal answer checker reviews a draft answer before submission.
What should I do after a Go result?
Move into BidPacto to build the compliance matrix, draft source-backed answers, and keep review status visible before export.
Ready to pursue this RFP?
Turn the scorecard into a response plan with a compliance matrix, win themes, and a source-backed first draft.