The "Should we bid?" scorecard
The bid scorecard is part of RFPfit Pro ($29 CAD/month, founding rate — see /support/free-vs-pro for how to subscribe).
The scorecard appears on notice detail pages for subscribed organizations. It breaks the notice down into five dimensions and combines them into an overall lean.
The five dimensions
- Fit — how well the notice aligns with your organization's fit profile, derived from the categorical fit label and rationale lines (not a numeric score)
- Eligibility — what the notice states about requirements, matched against your profile terms and the AI brief's eligibility notes; items are resolved as likely met, issue found, or needing review
- Deadline pressure — how much time remains relative to the effort the brief indicates a response would take
- Effort — the effort level read from the AI brief (low, moderate, high, or unknown when the notice text doesn't support a judgement)
- Competition — the field of past winners for similar contracts from the same buyer, drawn from CanadaBuys and SEAO award history (2021 onward); other sources show insufficient data here
Overall lean
The scorecard combines the five dimensions into one of three overall leans:
- Pursue — every dimension is affirmatively good and known
- Caution — at least one dimension flags a risk or cannot be assessed; unknowns always push toward caution, never toward pursue
- Pass — a hard blocker is present: the notice scores as not a fit, a declared disqualifier matched, the deadline has closed, or too little time remains for a high-effort response
Competition and incumbents
Competition is read from published award history. When five or fewer suppliers have won comparable contracts from this buyer in the last three years, the scorecard names them as recent contract holders. When more than five suppliers are in the window, the scorecard reports the count and notes that no single incumbent is identifiable from the public data.
When a source publishes no supplier names, or when there are too few comparable awards to read the field, the competition dimension shows as insufficient and the scorecard explains why.
Methodology
Every rationale line is grounded in real data — your profile terms, the notice text (via the AI brief), published deadlines, or award history counts. The methodology behind each dimension and its thresholds is disclosed on the scorecard panel so you can see how the lean was reached.
More Like This
The More like this section on notice detail pages shows up to five related open opportunities, available to all members with a free account. Similarity is computed from shared procurement category, buyer, source, region, and title keywords.
Each card shows a plain-English Why: line explaining what the notices have in common — for example, "Related category (UNSPSC) · Same buyer · 3 shared title words". No numeric similarity score is shown.
For subscribed organizations, the More Like This cards also show fit labels drawn from your profile — giving you a quick read on which of the related notices are worth pursuing.