Let AI help run the tender. Keep every award under a named officer you can replay.
A tender is high-stakes, contestable casework: one un-checked evaluation can void an award, trigger a legal challenge, or breach equal-treatment duties. Public bodies and enterprise procurement teams are putting AI agents to work across the lifecycle — drafting the tender, scoring bids, shortlisting, recommending an award. KYE Tender & Procurement Authority Console™ sits between the AI and the procurement and decides, at the moment of each action, whether that AI-assisted action may proceed, under whose authority, and with what evidence on the record.
A governed authority layer for AI across the tender lifecycle.
- Action admissibility. Every consequential AI-assisted action — issue a tender, score a bid, shortlist, award, determine a dispute — is admitted only when a decision is recorded: which agent, which action, the intended effect, and the authority under which it proceeds. No recorded authority, no action.
- Published-criteria binding. An AI-assisted bid score binds to the evaluation criteria that were published to bidders. The console refuses a score that references no published criteria set — an AI agent may not score against undisclosed or post-hoc criteria, so the evaluation stays reconstructable against what the bidders actually saw.
- Named-officer finality. An AI-assisted award stays advisory until a named, accountable procurement officer records sign-off. The accountability is personal and named — it never transfers to the AI.
- Dispute-defensible replay. Every governed action carries its bound chain (action record / published criteria / authority decision / decision map) and an ed25519 signature against the body’s published keys, so a challenge can be answered by replaying exactly what was decided and under whose authority — offline, from public keys alone.
Honest scope: KYE™ governs the AI’s authority and evidence, not the procurement decision.
KYE™ does not decide value-for-money, set procurement law, or judge the legal correctness of an award — those stay your professional and statutory function. What KYE™ does is govern the moment an AI agent acts: whether the action is admissible, under whose authority, bound to which published criteria, and with what evidence on the record. That maps cleanly to the AI-governance duties your oversight already sets — the EU AI Act (human oversight, record-keeping, deployer obligations), the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (accountability, documentation), and the UK AI Testing and Assurance Framework for the public sector (accountability and auditability). Each is a governed authority-and-evidence boundary, never a claim that KYE™ makes the procurement decision for you.
Pick the tier that fits your procurement function.
Solo
For a single procurement team. One procurement on synthetic data, four-week engagement, the full action-admissibility and named-officer finality boundary.
- Action admissibility across the tender lifecycle
- Named-officer sign-off on every award
- Single-team workspace, synthetic / anonymised data only
- Signed end-of-pilot evidence pack
Practice
For a contracting authority or enterprise procurement function. Multiple procurement types, multi-user roles, published-criteria binding on every score, six-week engagement.
- Multiple procurement and evaluation types
- Officer / evaluator / reviewer / read-only-auditor roles
- Published-criteria binding required before any score
- Signed end-of-pilot evidence pack
Network
For central-government or multi-body procurement networks. Full lifecycle including conflict-of-interest clearance, named-award finality, dispute-replay readiness, audit-firm integration, ten-week engagement.
- All procurement types across every participating body
- Conflict-of-interest clearance before any evaluation acts
- Dispute determinations bound to a replayable challenge chain
- Independent audit-firm sampling using replayable artefacts
Pilot fees credit one hundred per cent against the first-year annual licence when signed within sixty days of pilot close-out.
Procurement officers, evaluation leads, compliance owners, and disputes officers.
- Procurement officer. You own the award. KYE™ makes the rule explicit and computes whether each AI-assisted action is admissible — so the AI helps without quietly acting beyond its authority.
- Evaluation lead. You run scoring against the published criteria. KYE™ binds every AI-assisted score to that published set and clears conflicts of interest before an evaluator acts.
- Compliance owner. You answer to oversight and to challengers. KYE™ gives every AI-assisted action a recorded authority decision and a replayable evidence pack in one queue.
- Disputes officer. You answer challenges. KYE™ binds each dispute determination to the replay-provable chain of the challenged decision — so the answer is defensible by replaying exactly what was decided.