As of 13 August 2026, AI can assess whether an RFP is a good fit for your business.

What to actually do

1. Use a tool built for this

   The route this page recommends

2. Do it yourself

   Second choice

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the RFP and copy the complete document, including the specification, scoring criteria, timetable, contract terms, submission rules and buyer questions.
   2. Gather your current capability statement, service descriptions, relevant case studies, certifications, delivery locations, available capacity, pricing constraints and non-negotiable exclusions.
   3. Paste the business information and the RFP into a chatbot with the supplied prompt, asking it to cite the RFP wording for every requirement it assesses.
   4. Export or copy the requirement table and check every met or partly met result against the original RFP and your current evidence, changing unsupported results to unknown.
   5. Ask the chatbot to produce a list of clarification questions focused on unknown mandatory requirements, delivery obligations, contract risks, timescales and commercial viability.
   6. Send the clarification questions to the buyer through the permitted RFP channel, then add the answers to the assessment and rerun the recommendation.
   7. Compare the final recommendation with your capacity, margin requirements and risk tolerance, and record a human bid, no-bid or conditional-bid decision with its reasons.

   Prompt

   Assess whether this RFP is a good fit for my business. Use only the information in the RFP and the business information I provide, and clearly label any missing information or assumption. Do not invent capabilities, certifications, past performance, capacity, pricing, deadlines or contractual terms.
   
   Business information:
   [Describe what we sell, the sectors and locations we serve, relevant experience, certifications, available capacity, minimum acceptable contract value or margin, delivery constraints, exclusions and risk tolerance.]
   
   RFP:
   [Paste the full RFP or the relevant sections.]
   
   Return the assessment in this structure:
   1. Plain-language summary of what the buyer needs.
   2. Mandatory requirements, scored as met, partly met, not met or unknown, with a citation to the relevant RFP wording and the business evidence for each.
   3. Commercial and operational fit, including buyer type, contract scope, delivery location, timescales, capacity, likely effort, dependencies and payment or liability concerns.
   4. Disqualifiers and unanswered questions that could change the decision.
   5. Strengths that would make us credible.
   6. Weaknesses, risks and evidence gaps.
   7. A bid, no-bid or bid only if clarified recommendation.
   8. The smallest set of questions to ask the buyer before deciding.
   9. A short decision summary for a sales meeting.
   
   Separate facts from interpretations. Treat a requirement as unknown rather than met when the evidence is missing. Do not give legal advice, and flag any contract or liability point for review by a solicitor or suitable commercial adviser.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.