Follow up on won contracts
The bid is signed, the contract is yours — and now the part nobody teaches you on the tender course begins. Here is how to deliver on the promises from the bid, keep liquidated damages at bay, and build the reference you'll use to win the next tender.
The challenge
The won tender gets archived — and forgotten
The sales team celebrates the win, the contract team takes over, and the link between what you promised in the bid and what you actually deliver is broken. When the buyer later complains about deviations, no one has the overview anymore.
liquidated damages per day
Delays in public contracts cost a flat rate — from day one. On large contracts, liquidated damages eat the margin in a matter of days.
contract + SSA
Main contract, SSA template, attachments and correspondence — delivery obligations are spread across hundreds of pages nobody reads again.
requires a good reference
It is the buyer's assessment of the delivery that becomes your reference on the next tender. A mediocre delivery today is a loss in two years' time.
Here is how to do it
Deliver what you promised — without re-reading the contract every week
Tenderen carries everything you promised in the bid into a delivery plan with clear milestones, owners and deadlines — so follow-up is not about remembering, but about executing.
Delivery plan extracted from the bid
Every concrete promise from the bid — delivery time, quality level, reporting cadence — is extracted and becomes a milestone with owner and deadline in the delivery plan.
Alerts before liquidated damages kick in
Tenderen knows where the liquidated damages thresholds sit in the contract, and warns you in good time before you risk breaking a deadline — not after you have done it.
Audit trail for every delivery
Every milestone is documented with date, owner and point of contact with the buyer. In case of complaint or audit, you have the history ready.
Invoicing data automatically
When a milestone is delivered and signed off, invoicing data is generated against the contract amount — so you don't lose billing because of administrative backlog.
How it works
Three steps from signed contract to successful delivery
Convert the bid into a delivery plan
Tenderen reads what you promised in the bid, what is in the contract, and automatically builds a milestone plan with owners and deadlines.
Keep ongoing control
Get alerts in Slack or email before each milestone, and update progress against the delivery. Deviations are flagged before they become liquidated damages cases.
Build the reference for the next tender
When the delivery is complete, you have complete documentation: delivered milestones, customer sign-off, revenue — ready to be used as a reference in the next bid.
Winning companies build the next tender in this phase
Suppliers in construction, IT and consulting use Tenderen to link sales promises to actual delivery — and build the references that win the next tender.
From bid promises
Delivery obligations
Invoicing data at each milestone
Reference base for the next tender
You win the next tender inside this contract.
Upload the newly won contract and bid, and let Tenderen build the delivery plan that keeps liquidated damages away and makes the next bid easier to win.