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Reusable bid content

Where to keep the answers you write once and paste into every bid: PQQ boilerplate, win themes, case studies, capability statements.

What goes in the library?

The library lives at Account → Bid library and is scoped to your workspace — every team member sees the same entries. Five categories cover most repeatable bid content:

The five categories

win_theme

Win themes

One-paragraph hooks you've found land with buyers — drop them into executive summaries; refine as you learn what resonates.

pqq_answer

PQQ answers

Section 1 (supplier identity), Section 2 (insurance, ISO, financials), Section 3 (modern slavery, environment, equality) — write once, reuse forever.

case_study

Case studies

Past performance evidence — keep them in polished, droppable form rather than rewriting from scratch each time.

capability

Capability statements

Short descriptions of what you do in each service area. Useful when a bid asks "describe your capability to deliver X".

compliance

Compliance

Modern Slavery Act statements, Equality Act policies, environmental commitments, data-protection postures. Anything you keep retyping from the same Word doc lives here instead.

Tagging convention

Each entry can carry an arbitrary set of tags (comma-separated at create time). Lowercase, kebab-case is the convention. Examples:

iso27001 cyber-essentials-plus nhs local-authority central-gov 200-word 500-word

The list page filters by category + tag + free-text search across title and body.

Editing vs archiving

Any workspace member can edit any entry — the library is a shared asset, not personal notes. The author is recorded for attribution but doesn't gate edits.

Archive

When an entry is no longer the right answer but you want the audit trail. Hidden from the default list; surface with the "Show archived" toggle.

Delete

Only after archiving, and only when you're sure. Permanent. For sensitive entries (financial figures, personal data), archive-then-delete leaves a clear paper trail.

Workflow patterns that work

  1. 1

    Bid manager curates, team contributes

    One person owns the library; others suggest entries via the bid Discussion thread, the curator promotes them.

  2. 2

    Post-win review

    After winning, review the answers the bid used; promote the strongest ones to the library so the next bid inherits them.

  3. 3

    Quarterly refresh

    Half a day every three months reviewing entries beats letting them rot. Archive anything untouched for 18 months — odds are it's stale.

Privacy

Library content is org-scoped — other workspaces never see your entries. We don't read or analyse your library content for any cross-org feature: it's storage, not training data.