Strategic procurement decisions require more than standard approaches
High risk, high value procurement isn’t just more of the same. It’s a different beast altogether. And trying to wrangle it with basic sourcing tools or spreadsheets, that’s like doing your own dentistry: sure, you can try, but it’s going to get messy, painful, and expensive fast.
The AWARD® software was built from the ground up for the complicated, the expensive, the political, the strategic: the kind of procurement projects that keep you up at night.
If your public procurement project meets any of the following criteria, AWARD® is here, ready to make things better, smarter and easier:
- “Transparent, auditable, defensible” aren’t just nice-to-haves, they’re non-negotiable.
- The risk of getting it wrong is too high to wing it.
- There’s a substantial amount of tax-payers money on the line.
- Your stakeholders might be many, and your timelines are likely to get pretty tight.
“AWARD® quickly brought everything into one location to simplify the project.”
Martin Burger, Head of Frameworks, Adra Tai CyfWhat makes AWARD® Different?
We’re not just software. We’re a team of Evaluation Experts. Behind the platform is a team of seasoned procurement pros who’ve worked on some of the world’s most complex projects and helped shape best practice. This expertise is baked into our software, resulting in a platform that exists to make your job easier, and your procurement outcomes better.
So what benefits does AWARD® bring to your procurement project or programme?
- The ability to deliver demonstrable Value for money.
- A process that’s bulletproof under scrutiny.
- Risk handled early, not late.
- Decisions you can defend in any boardroom, courtroom, or headline.
- Momentum. Because speed matters, but only if you get it right.
- Everything online, in one place.
“The use of AWARD® has reduced the administration required when evaluating tenders for both the procurement team and end users, taking us from spreadsheets to a system where everything is in one place.”
Sarah Patnett, Business Services Manager, Development Bank of WalesAI that does the heavy lifting. You keep the decision.
Scoring high-value bids means reading, weighing and justifying, again and again, usually against the clock. AWARD® AI takes some of that weight off your panel. It does not take the decision.
Evaluator Assist helps your evaluators work through responses and put together clear, well-evidenced rationales. Sentiment Analysis helps you spot what sits behind the scores. Your people still make every call, with more time for the judgement that only experience brings.
Evaluator Assist
Help evaluators work through supplier responses and develop clear, well-evidenced evaluation rationales.
Sentiment Analysis
Help identify sentiment within supplier responses, giving evaluators another perspective when reviewing bids.
Human-led decisions
Keep professional judgement at the centre of every evaluation, with AI supporting the people making the decisions.
Fits right in. Stands alone.
AWARD® integrates with your existing systems, or runs solo when you need laser focus on a complex project. Either way, it slots into your world without the friction.
If you’re making high-risk, high-value decisions with tools built for low-stakes… you’re gambling.
AWARD® de-risks your process, defends your decisions, and keeps you out of the firing line.
“Solid. Powerful. Comprehensive. Rigorous.”
Louis Saucier, Program Manager FAcT (2018 to 2024), Royal Canadian Air ForceDiscover how AWARD® can help you deliver better procurement outcomes.
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