The AI tender tool for NZ construction
Win more tenders.
Stop working weekends.
Tendee drafts your tender responses from the bids, policies, and case studies you've already written — so your team stops retyping method statements at 10pm and starts winning more of the work they bid for.
Our approach to the Hospital Retrofit prioritises a rigorous, staging-first methodology ensuring zero disruption to patient care. During the recent Albany St retrofit, we executed a parallel HVAC changeover adjacent to active operating theatres.
All disruptive works are restricted to defined after-hours windows per our ISO 9001 policy. Infection control (ICRA Class III) zones will be established before any ceiling penetration begins.
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Methodology & disruption management
15%H&S plan for live environment
20%Relevant project experience
25%Our approach to the Hospital Retrofit prioritises a rigorous, staging-first methodology ensuring zero disruption to patient care. During the recent Albany St retrofit, we executed a parallel HVAC changeover adjacent to active operating theatres.
All disruptive works — coring, mechanical slinging — are restricted to defined after-hours windows per our ISO 9001 policy. Infection control (ICRA Class III) zones will be established before any ceiling penetration begins.
Our site supervisor will maintain a live programme board updated each morning with the DHB facilities manager, ensuring HSEQ Policy §4.2 sign-off is obtained before each stage transition.
Bid writing is eating your best people.
Time a single director or estimator loses to one bid.
What our design partners are targeting with Tendee in the loop.
And construction is a major share. Most of it scored on written responses.
Most NZ construction firms don't have a bid team. They have a director who writes tenders in the evenings, an estimator who copy-pastes from last year's Word files, and an ops manager who finds out on Friday that Monday's submission is missing three scored questions.
The answers to most tender questions already exist — in past bids, policies, site diaries, case studies. They're just scattered across SharePoint, email threads, and people's heads. Every new tender starts from scratch.
And when a bid is lost, nobody runs a structured debrief. The same gaps show up in the next submission. And the next.
How Tendee works.
Four steps. One workflow. Grounded in your own evidence.
Methodology & disruption management
Describe your staging approach and how you'll maintain DHB operational continuity.
Health & Safety plan — live environment
Provide your ICRA classification approach and after-hours work protocols.
Relevant project experience
Scored low in 2 past bids — weak evidence cited for comparable live-site works.
Our approach to the Hospital Retrofit prioritises a rigorous,
staging-first methodology ensuring zero disruption to patient care.
During the Albany St retrofit, we executed a parallel HVAC
changeover adjacent to active operating theatres.
Word limits respected
All 4 sections within bounds
Broader Outcomes covered
Social value addressed in §3
Contradictions found
No conflicting statements
Missing evidence flags
Relevant experience — add project ref
Ingest
Upload your history in one afternoon.
Drag in past tenders (won and lost), your insurance documents, policies, case studies, safety plans. Tendee parses, chunks, and indexes each document into your private library.
- ✓Accepts PDF, DOCX, and plain text
- ✓Tags content by topic automatically (H&S, quality, social value, methodology)
- ✓Your data stays yours — never used to train a shared model
Analyse
Understand the tender before you start writing.
Upload the new ITT, RFP, or PQQ. Tendee extracts every scored question, flags compliance requirements, and highlights the sections where past bids have scored low.
- ✓Structured question list with word limits and weightings
- ✓Compliance checks for Broader Outcomes, H&S prequalification, LBP requirements, ISO references
- ✓"Red flag" review — anything in past bids you got wrong on a similar question
Draft
First-pass answers in minutes, not hours.
For every question, Tendee writes a grounded draft using only what's in your library. Every sentence carries a citation back to the source chunk — no hallucination, no invented certifications.
- ✓Grounded in your firm's real evidence
- ✓Inline citations you can click to verify
- ✓Matches question word limits and scoring rubric language
Our methodology for the Hospital Retrofit is grounded in
our proven approach to live-environment construction.
As demonstrated in the Wellington Hospital project
[Source: Case Study — Wellington Hospital.pdf]
we maintained full DHB operational continuity throughout...
Review
Catch what a tired human misses.
Before you export, Tendee runs a pre-submission review: unanswered sub-questions, contradictions with earlier answers, missing evidence, weak sections.
- ✓One-click Word export formatted for submission
- ✓Audit trail of every edit and source
- ✓Works alongside your existing SharePoint or Dropbox
The longer you use Tendee,
the better it gets.
Generic LLMs reset every conversation. Tendee builds a compounding data advantage that gets smarter with every bid you win.
Your Private Corpus
Every past tender, methodology statement, and policy you upload becomes your foundational truth.
Contextual Drafting
Tendee drafts new responses by exclusively querying your historical evidence and past wins.
Outcome Analytics
Log assessor feedback. The system learns which arguments score highest, prioritising them for next time.
Your Private Corpus
Every past tender, methodology statement, and policy you upload becomes your foundational truth.
Contextual Drafting
Tendee drafts new responses by exclusively querying your historical evidence and past wins.
Outcome Analytics
Log assessor feedback. The system learns which arguments score highest, prioritising them for next time.
Why not just use ChatGPT?
A generic chatbot doesn't know your firm. Tendee does — because you taught it.
Generic AI
- Writes generic filler based on public data
- Requires you to dig up evidence manually
- Produces Americanised, overly-formal text
- Invents certifications and case studies
- Forgets your company in every new chat
- Costs your estimators 40+ hours per bid
Tendee
Trained on your firm- Writes from your firm's actual bid history
- Cites your own documents for every claim
- Matches your firm's tone and NZ procurement language
- Won't invent anything not in your corpus
- Learns which answers win for you over time
- Costs less than one lost tender per year
Generic AI
- Writes generic filler based on public data
- Requires you to dig up evidence manually
- Produces Americanised, overly-formal text
- Invents certifications and case studies
- Forgets your company in every new chat
- Costs your estimators 40+ hours per bid
Tendee
Trained on your firm- Writes from your firm's actual bid history
- Cites your own documents for every claim
- Matches your firm's tone and NZ procurement language
- Won't invent anything not in your corpus
- Learns which answers win for you over time
- Costs less than one lost tender per year
Become a founding partner.
We're opening Tendee to a small group of NZ construction firms who want early access — and a say in what gets built next. In exchange for real usage and honest feedback, founding partners get substantial ongoing discounts and a direct line to the founder.
Founding price, locked in
Up to 50% off list pricing for your first 12 months, then a founding-customer rate that never rises while you stay subscribed.
Direct founder access
Monthly call with the founder. Your tender questions, workflow gaps, and wins go straight into the product roadmap.
First-mover advantage
Early access to win/loss analytics, rubric library, and any new modules before general release.
Simple pricing. Pays for itself on one win.
A bid consultant charges NZ$3k–8k per tender. Tendee Pro is NZ$6k a year.
Starter
Small firms submitting 1–3 tenders per month.
- 1 seat
- Unlimited document uploads
- AI drafting & citations
- Word export
Growth
Active bidders scaling their commercial pipeline.
- 5 seats
- Everything in Starter
- Rubric mapping
- Win / loss analytics
- Custom template ingest
Pro
High-volume bidders who need unbounded generation.
- 15 seats
- Everything in Growth
- Unlimited tenders
- API access
- Priority support
All plans include unlimited document uploads, inline citations, and Word export. Enterprise pricing on request.
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