Tender Forensic Analysis Guide

Use Tender Forensic Analysis when you need to:

- Screen a supplier before partnering, subcontracting, or inviting them into a bid
- Review whether a department or municipality shows unusual award patterns
- Prioritize which suppliers or awards need manual audit attention first
- Investigate repeated director overlap, shell-company signals, or threshold clustering

Bid Splitting / Threshold Proximity
Awards clustered just below procurement thresholds can indicate a pattern worth checking more closely.

Director Conflicts
Shared directors across suppliers may justify additional conflict-of-interest review.

Shell-Company Indicators
Dormant-company reactivation, shared addresses, and unusual award timing can all be useful warning signals.

Department Concentration Risk
A narrow concentration of awards among a small set of suppliers may justify broader procurement scrutiny.

Treat the results as a prioritization layer. A higher forensic risk score means the supplier or department may need closer manual review, not that wrongdoing has been proven.

Good practice:
- Review the flagged pattern
- Compare it with the supplier's broader company context
- Verify the issue against source documents or official records
- Escalate only after manual confirmation

1. Start with Tender Forensic Analysis
2. Open Company Intelligence to review award history and procurement context
3. Open Company & Director Lookup to verify CIPC details and relationships
4. Perform manual document checks before making a final procurement or audit decision