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Inside the Lucius Tender Analysis Workflow

Every tender that lands in Lucius runs through a five-stage forensic pipeline. Each stage produces an artefact a bid team can act on — not a generic summary, but page-cited evidence that holds up under legal review.

1. 01

   1. Document ingestion across formats

   PDFs, DOCX, Excel scoresheets, ZIP packages of RFP attachments, OJEU/UK FTS notices, AusTender ATM bundles. The Files API with explicit caching means a 300-page tender is analysed in roughly the same wall-clock time as a 30-page one. Vision-based table extraction recovers data from scanned procurement forms where most OCR pipelines drop columns.

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   2. Compliance matrix extraction

   Every Shall, Must, Required, and Mandatory clause is captured with its page reference and clause number. Scored questions are separated from pass/fail gates. Lucius distinguishes minimum-eligibility threshold criteria from weighted-scoring criteria — a distinction most spreadsheet workflows blur to their cost.

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   3. Risk surface audit

   Unlimited-indemnity clauses, payment terms below 30 days, IP assignment language, force-majeure asymmetries, and unilateral termination rights are flagged automatically. Each flag includes the exact contract language and a one-sentence consequence in plain English — what specifically would happen to the bidder if the clause activates.

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   4. Clause-vs-clause contradiction detection

   A Deep Think pass identifies internal contradictions across the full document — for instance, "remote delivery permitted" in Section 5.3 contradicted by "on-site presence required" in Section 8.2. These are the traps that disqualify bids in compliance review even when every individual section reads fine in isolation.

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   5. Response draft generation

   Each scored question gets a draft answer seeded from your won-bid library. The draft cites which past win the answer is drawn from, so a senior writer can verify pedigree before signing off. Export to your corporate Word template with formatting preserved — ready for legal review and submission.