What is a method statement in a tender?
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Short answer
A method statement explains how you will deliver the work: the steps, people, equipment, controls and timescales. In a tender it is usually a scored quality answer, so it needs to match the buyer's specification and question closely.
Key points
- ✓Explains how you will deliver this contract, not who you are
- ✓Usually a scored quality answer
- ✓Must follow the buyer's specification and question wording
What to include
Cover who does what, how the work is planned and scheduled, how quality and safety are controlled, how problems are escalated and how performance is reported. Use the buyer's own wording so evaluators can find each point.
Common mistakes
Generic text copied from another bid, describing your company instead of the service, ignoring sub-questions, and making claims with no evidence behind them.
How to check it
List every part of the question and the relevant specification sections, then tick each one off against your answer. Anything you cannot point to is a gap.
What evaluators look for
- Clear steps in a logical order
- Named roles and responsibilities
- How quality, safety and problems are handled
- Evidence that the approach already works
Quick self-check before you submit
- ☐ Every sub-question has its own heading or paragraph
- ☐ The buyer's site, service or specification is named
- ☐ Each promise has an owner and a frequency
- ☐ Word limit is respected
Key terms on this page
- Method statement
- A written explanation of how you will deliver the service or work: the steps, people, resources, controls and timescales.
- Specification
- The buyer's description of what they want delivered. Every answer should be checked against it.
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General guidance only, not legal advice. Always follow the buyer's own tender documents.