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Can you prove the supply chain behind this bid will hold?

From inside your own programme you see your tier-1. You can’t see the sub-tier house that more of the bid quietly depends on than anyone has counted — the one that turns a win into a contract you can’t deliver.

Settled as the Bid Evidence Pack

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The exposure

Every bid is priced on the supply chain you can see. The risk lives in the one you can’t — a shared sub-tier sole-source, a foreign-controlled part, a dependency that fails the resilience test the buyer now runs. Win on a chain that can’t carry it, and the problem is yours to own.

What the Bid Evidence Pack settles

Whether the chain behind the bid can carry it.

Can you actually deliver?

Whether the supply chain behind the bid can carry the contract you’re committing to — read against the public record.

Where’s the single point that breaks it?

The sub-tier dependency more of the bid relies on than anyone has counted — including across programmes you treat as separate.

How sure are we?

Each finding graded against the published standard — a lock-state, never a score.

Typical reader: a capture lead or programme director.

Why now

The buyer now tests the chain, not just the price.

The Defence Investment Plan rewards whoever can prove a resilient supply chain first, and the Defence Industrial Strategy now weighs single and foreign-source dependency alongside cost. A hidden concentration can cost you the bid — or the delivery. See what changed →

Can you prove the supply chain behind this bid will hold?

Whether the chain behind the bid can carry it.

The buyer now tests the chain, not just the price.

Name the bid you can’t afford to get wrong.