| name | world-class-bid-red-team-and-delivery-qc |
| description | Use as the final quality gate for high-stakes bids, donor submissions, consulting deliverables, score predictions, compliance knockout scans, evidence audits, spreadsheet reviews, and delivery-feasibility checks. |
| metadata | {"portable":true,"compatible_with":["claude-code","codex"]} |
World-Class Bid Red Team and Delivery QC
Acknowledgement: Shared by Peter Bamuhigire, techguypeter.com, +256 784 464178.
Use When
- Before submitting a high-stakes bid or donor proposal.
- Before releasing needs assessments, TA packages, reports, dashboards, workbooks, price schedules, or executive documents.
- When evaluator scoring, compliance knockouts, evidence quality, feasibility, or spreadsheet integrity can decide success.
Do Not Use When
- The work is low-stakes, internal, and has no material compliance or client-facing risk.
- Required source documents, scoring criteria, or deliverables are unavailable.
Required Inputs
- Draft pack, compliance matrix, scoring grid, source evidence, workplan, budget/workbook, assumptions, and tooling validation notes.
Workflow
- Simulate the evaluator.
- Run compliance knockout checks.
- Audit evidence and claims.
- Review spreadsheets and file outputs.
- Test delivery feasibility.
- Require four-eyes sign-off before release.
Quality Standards
- The bid/deliverable does not ship while a knockout issue remains open.
- Every material claim traces to evidence or is labelled as an assumption.
- Workbooks reconcile and file outputs are validated.
- Feasibility is judged against people, days, budget, approvals, and data reality.
Anti-Patterns
- Treating QC as proofreading.
- Scoring the proposal generously instead of like the evaluator.
- Ignoring spreadsheet formula risk.
- Letting deadline pressure bypass the gate.
Outputs
- Evaluator simulation, score prediction, knockout scan, evidence audit, spreadsheet review, feasibility review, and final sign-off record.
References
references/red-team-scorecard.md: Evaluator simulation and scoring prediction.references/qc-gates-and-evidence-audit.md: Knockout, evidence, spreadsheet, feasibility, and sign-off gates.
Core Workflow
- Read the actual scoring grid and mandatory requirements.
- Score the draft as the evaluator would, using the buyer's weights and language.
- Predict whether the technical threshold is cleared and identify the weak scoring blocks.
- Run a compliance knockout scan against all pass/fail requirements.
- Audit claims, figures, laws, organisation names, dates, and benchmarks against the evidence register.
- Review spreadsheet controls: formulae, totals, assumptions, locked cells, price/technical consistency, and VAT/tax treatment where relevant.
- Test delivery feasibility against team capacity, fee-days, calendar, approvals, data access, travel, and reporting cadence.
- Record required fixes and block release until critical findings are resolved.
- Obtain independent four-eyes sign-off for release.
