The coverage rate is in none of the documents; it only emerges when someone counts the lines.
The tender lists its requirements in tables, often spread across several annexes. Anyone who wants to know the coverage rate goes through it line by line and asks the relevant department about each technology area. By the time the answers are back, the table is circulating in three versions, and nobody knows which one counts.
146requirement linesThat is how many individual lines the annex to the specification contains.
4technology areasEvery line belongs to one area and therefore to a different contact in the organisation.
23lines without evidenceThese lines are still open after the first round.
3table versionsPassing it round by email produces three versions of the same assessment.
With the three table versions gone, assessment effort falls by 55%, and the 23 open lines are in one place rather than spread across three email attachments.
The 55% reduction in assessment effort is this agent's headline figure. The number of requirements, the areas involved and the table versions describe a typical procedure in bid management; they are illustrative, not measured.