Q&A Clarification: Ask Before You Price
Ambiguous tender documents are one of the biggest sources of pricing errors. A vague item description, an unclear scope boundary, an unexplained requirement — these create uncertainty that either inflates your price or results in an underestimate that costs you money. Q&A Clarification is designed to fix this.
How Q&A Clarification Works
When you're reviewing or pricing a tender and encounter an ambiguous item, you can raise a clarification directly from within the platform.
You describe the issue — in plain language or by referencing the specific document section — and the system helps you draft a formal clarification request in the correct format for submission to the procuring entity.
AI-Assisted Drafting
Writing a good clarification request takes care. It needs to be:
- Specific enough to get a useful answer
- Professionally worded
- Referenced correctly to the tender document
- Formatted to match the procuring entity's expectations
The AI drafting assistant takes your question and produces a properly formatted request. You review and edit before sending — the output is always yours to control.
Tracking Responses
Clarification responses are logged against the relevant tender. When you receive an answer from the procuring entity, you record it alongside the original question.
This keeps a clear record of what was asked, what was answered, and what impact the answer has on your pricing assumptions — invaluable if the same question comes up on a future tender from the same client.
Better Estimates, Fewer Surprises
Contractors who ask the right questions before submission price more accurately, deliver more reliably, and build stronger relationships with clients.
Q&A Clarification makes it easier to ask those questions — without the administrative overhead of managing it all manually in email threads and spreadsheets.