Case study — Engineering — water and environment
AI-assisted bid production without losing technical rigour
A water engineering firm automated the mechanical parts of bid production, freeing principal engineers to focus on technical differentiation and client strategy.
Client
Water and environmental engineering firm, 480 staff
- less time on first drafts
- 0%less time on first drafts
- tender win rate
- +0%tender win rate
- more tenders answered
- 0xmore tenders answered
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The challenge
Every tender response was assembled manually from scattered documents and past submissions.
Principal engineers spent up to 30% of their month on document production rather than technical strategy.
Quality varied by author, and compliance evidence was rebuilt each time.
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Our approach
- 01Structured 11 years of submissions, standards and project evidence into a governed knowledge base.
- 02Deployed AI-assisted drafting with mandatory technical review and source citation on every claim.
- 03Automated compliance matrices and accreditation evidence from a single maintained source.
- 04Added opportunity detection from regulator, permit and capital programme data.
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Results
- First-draft production time reduced by 61% across regulated tenders
- Tender win rate improved 22% as senior time shifted to technical differentiation
- Five times more tenders answered per quarter with the same team
“The automation handles the paperwork; our engineers now argue the engineering.”
Bid Director
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