How the roll-up gate works
This tool grades every closed bid on whether anybody found out where your number sat, and selects the ones it gates on by the margin you lost them at. It reads 10 closed bids and rolls them into one verdict — the worst, never the average — then a gate that can only make it worse.
The 10 closed bids
Two triggers. Any CLOSE bid nobody debriefed forces BIDDING BLIND — and a loss with no recorded margin COUNTS as close, which closes the obvious escape route: if unknown meant wide, a firm that never obtains a result would have no close bids at all and could never fire the gate built to catch it. The second reads the whole register: if no result anywhere ever changed what you chase, the practice has never once acted on what it found.
Why: Four of nine in-scope bids read DEBRIEFED, so 44% of the practice. The gate fires on two: Municipal Fleet Garage was lost by 0.9% and never looked at, and Harborview Warehouse has no recorded result at all, which counts as close rather than letting it pass. The 18.9% blowout on BD-08 is worse-scoring and is deliberately not gated — losing by nineteen per cent teaches nothing that losing by one does not teach better.
This is the only gate in the catalog that selects its subset by a continuous field. It reads the bids you lost narrowly and lets the blowouts go, because a bid lost by nineteen per cent has nothing to teach that a bid lost by one does not teach better — and a bid lost by 0.9% says your number was right and something else decided it. Wide wins are reported and never gated, for the same reason in the other direction. Grades a register of closed bids you fill in, never a person and never a competitor. It fetches no bid tab, reads no CRM and opens no procurement portal, does not tell you whether your win rate is healthy, and never says what you should have bid.