| Run the EOI or tender | The reasonable enquiry sits on the tender record: labour, WHS, and environmental questions attached to the process. | The enquiry and what came back are logged as the tender runs, not reconstructed after. | Ask your assistant which tenderers are missing a required practice statement. |
| Assess who can bid | Each tenderer’s existing prequalification, if they already hold one, attaches to the EOI. | A tenderer short on a requirement is flagged before shortlisting, not after. | Submissions read against your criteria, section by section, with the gaps listed. |
| Engage the winning contractor | Prequalification runs by contractor class: a subcontractor is not measured against a head contractor’s standard. | Approval routes to the right person by risk level, and re-approval is scheduled on its own. | Each document read against your requirements before it reaches an approver. |
| Set the contract’s clause requirements | Modern slavery and other clause requirements attach to the contract record, not a separate checklist. | A high-risk tender is flagged for the heightened clause set before the file goes out. | Ask which contracts in a category still need the heightened clause set applied. |
| Monitor the panel through the term | Every licence, insurance, and clause requirement sits on the supplier’s record with its expiry. | Flagged the day something lapses, not when finance queries an invoice. | Ask your assistant which suppliers have something expiring this quarter. |
| Hand over at a project-phase change | The subcontractor panel’s record moves with the project, tier by tier. | The incoming Principal Contractor inherits the record instead of rebuilding it. | Ask what changed on a supplier’s record since the last handover. |
| Report to audit or the board | One searchable record instead of a tender file, a spreadsheet, and an inbox. | Live panel and enquiry status straight into Power BI. | Ask in plain English through ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot; the answer comes from the record. |