Talo Guide
Review a tender with scanned annexes before you submit
How to ask Talo to read an entire tender document, including the scanned pages, and tell you which requirements you meet and which you don't before the deadline.
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A tender document can run dozens of pages, and not all of them have text: some annexes, addenda or amendments arrive scanned, with no text layer, so searching for a word gets you nowhere. That's exactly where a requirement that decides whether you get admitted can hide. Talo reads the whole tender, scanned pages included, and cross-checks it against your own company's dossier.
Steps
- Put the full tender document in the project (as one PDF or several, however it arrived) along with your company's dossier or supporting documents: certifications, accounts, team, references.
- Ask something like "read the whole tender document, including the scanned pages, and make a list of the solvency requirements and the documents to submit, each one with the page it appears on." Don't tell it to skip any page: the scanned ones are exactly the ones worth checking most.
- Ask for the comparison against your own company: "for each requirement, tell me whether we meet it according to our dossier, citing the page too." Talo gives you back a table with the requirement, its page in the tender document, whether you meet it, and the dossier page that proves it.
- If something isn't met, ask for it to be clearly flagged, not buried in the middle of the list: "if there's any requirement we don't meet, tell me clearly and make it stand out." That's the difference between finding out a month after the award or three days before the deadline.
- Review the conclusion yourself before deciding anything. Talo cites the exact page for each claim: open it and check it yourself if the requirement matters.
Note
If your machine doesn't have text-recognition tools installed yet for the scanned pages, Talo can still read them by converting them to an image and looking at them directly, though it's slower than when a page already has text. Give it the time it needs on a long tender document with several scanned pages.
This is a safety net against a last-minute surprise, not a full legal review: on anything doubtful, and always before submitting the bid, confirm it with whoever handles the legal or administrative side of the tender.