It reads all 200 pages and tells you if you qualify

A bid that fails technical evaluation never has its price read. The financial cover stays sealed, the days spent assembling the pack are gone, and the earnest money sits with the buyer until the refund works its way back after financial opening. How an EMD refund actually moves covers that wait.

The clause that did it is rarely obscure. It is a turnover average short of the threshold by a few lakh. A completed work of the right nature but the wrong value. A solvency certificate issued eleven months ago against a clause asking for one issued within six. A registration class that caps you below the estimated value of the work. Why tenders get technically rejected sets out the pattern.

What makes it expensive is that every one of those was knowable on day one. The criteria were printed in the tender document before anybody downloaded it. The only thing standing between the bidder and the answer was a document that can run to a few hundred pages, a scanned annexure or two, and the hours it takes to cross-check each line against the firm's own record.

Reading that document is the whole job of this module.

The engine works on the tender document, not the listing. This matters more than it sounds. The public list feeds from NIC's Central Public Procurement Portal, the state portals NIC aggregates, and GeM do not publish estimated value, EMD or eligibility criteria at all. Those live inside the document, so the document is what gets fetched and read.

Scanned pages go through OCR first. The text is then split into individual requirements rather than summarised: the turnover threshold and its look-back window, the similar-work value and how that notice defines similar, the solvency amount and its required recency, registration class, document formats, staff and plant conditions where the notice carries them. Every requirement keeps the clause number and the page it was read from.

Statutory relaxations resolve next, before any verdict exists. Only then is each requirement compared against your company record, one at a time.

What comes out is a list of criteria, each with its own outcome and its own citation, not a single score. A score hides which clause is the problem. The clause is the only part you can act on.

How to read a tender document covers the same ground manually.

A criterion comes back one of three ways. It clears, on stated evidence, with the clause cited. It does not clear, with the gap quantified: short by this much turnover, short by this much on the largest completed similar work. Or it returns a judgement call.

The third outcome exists because Indian procurement law draws a line that most software blurs. Under the General Financial Rules 2017, a buyer may relax prior turnover and prior experience conditions for micro and small enterprises and for DPIIT-recognised startups. May, not must. That is real discretion sitting with the buyer, and a tool that converts it into a green tick is lying to you about a decision it does not get to make.

Compare that with the exemption from EMD and tender fee for micro and small enterprises under the Public Procurement Policy for Micro and Small Enterprises 2012. That is an exemption, claimed on production of the Udyam certificate. Different animal, different treatment.

So a discretionary relaxation returns as a judgement call with the route attached: raise it at the pre-bid meeting, get the answer in writing. What Udyam registration is worth, the startup exemption and pre-bid meeting questions go deeper.

A tender whose document has not been read returns no verdict. Not a provisional one, not an estimate from the title and the category. Silence, until the document is in hand. Guessing eligibility off a listing line would be the single easiest way to make this product feel fast and be useless, because the listing does not contain the criteria in the first place.

It does not submit a bid. It never holds your digital signature certificate and never asks for it. Submission happens on the government portal, signed by your authorised signatory, on your own DSC, exactly as it does today. Digital signature certificates for tenders and how to submit a tender online cover that side.

It does not write your bid or your technical narrative.

And it does not present itself as an authority on your eligibility. Avsar is a private platform with no affiliation to any government department. The verdict is decision support built on a document and a company record, and both are things you can check, which is why the citation is on every line. Read the cited clause before you commit an EMD. Disclaimer.

The engine is only as good as the company record behind it, and that record is a one-time setup measured in an evening, not a project.

What it asks for is what a technical cover asks for anyway. Audited turnover for the last three completed financial years. Completed works with their values, dates and buyers, with the completion certificate rather than only the work order, because the clause asks about completed work. The solvency certificate with its issue date, since recency is usually part of the clause. GST, PAN and EPF or ESI positions where they apply. Contractor registration class and state. Udyam registration if you hold one.

After that, the record is reused on every tender you look at, and the only maintenance is the honest kind: a new completion certificate when a job finishes, a fresh solvency certificate when the old one ages out, the new audited figure at year end.

Documents required for a government tender, work order versus completion certificate and the solvency certificate explain each item. The average annual turnover calculator runs the three-year arithmetic in your browser before you enter anything at all.

It is for a firm that bids regularly on Indian government work and loses more time to unqualified bids than to lost ones. If you are looking at four notices a week and can properly evaluate one, the constraint is triage, and triage is exactly what a cited per-criterion verdict gives you. The bid or no-bid decision is the framework it feeds.

It is for firms whose eligibility position is genuinely borderline, because that is where the money is. A micro or small enterprise sitting just under a turnover threshold needs to know precisely how far under, and whether the shortfall falls in relaxation territory or nowhere near it.

It is not for someone who wants a bid written for them, and not for anyone hoping to automate submission. It is not built for private sector tenders. And it will not help much if your eligibility never binds, if you clear every threshold in your category comfortably. In that case discovery and pricing are where your leverage sits, not here.

Firms weighing a joint venture to clear a threshold get the same per-criterion breakdown for the shortfall they are trying to cover.

Eligibility is the second step, not the first. Discovery maintains the index across NIC's Central Public Procurement Portal, the state portals it aggregates, and GeM, re-read every minute, so a notice reaches you while there is still time to act on it. Eligibility then decides which of those are yours to bid. A corrigendum that revises a criterion after you downloaded the document flows back through the same check.

Past the verdict, award intelligence is what tells you where comparable work actually closed, and the EMD and PBG treasury tracks what capital each live bid has committed and what is overdue for refund. Qualifying for a tender and being able to fund it are two different questions, and the second one decides how many bids you can carry at once. The EMD calculator sizes a single deposit from figures you type in.

All 8 calculators and all 52 guides are free, and the calculators run entirely in your browser. Start from the live tender list, or see pricing.