AI procurement

Find the right route through AI procurement

Find the right AI procurement route by answering a short set of questions about where you are in the purchase. The same answers produce the same route and checklist. The result is a triage of the next workstream, not a tender, a contract, or a legal opinion. Use it before you commission a pack, an assessment, or a specification.

A route can point you at planning the problem, specifying the requirement, evaluating supplier evidence, or checking a live certificate. It does not award a contract and it does not replace the methodology. When the checklist shows a gap you cannot close from public information, the paid evidence pack and the product assessment are separate pieces of work.

1. Where are you now?
2. What changes the route?
3. Your route

Where are you in the buying process?

We have a problem or opportunity, but not a defined AI requirementStart with use-case discovery, boundaries, outcomes and feasibility.We know the use case, but have not written the requirementsTurn the intended use into measurable, evidence-led requirements.We are preparing an RFI, RFP or ITTBuild the buyer pack, supplier questions, evidence requirements and evaluation approach.We have suppliers or responses and need to compare themEvaluate suppliers consistently against requirements and submitted evidence.We have a preferred supplier and need the evidence checkedVerify material supplier claims, controls, dependencies and evidence gaps.We are negotiating or finalising the contractTranslate procurement controls into contract, change, audit and exit requirements.We have bought the service and are preparing to deployCheck implementation boundaries, access, data, testing, oversight and go-live controls.The AI service is already in useEstablish post-award monitoring, reassessment and material-change triggers.

How this route finder is used

The same answers produce the same route. A request for information (RFI), request for proposal (RFP) or invitation to tender (ITT) is written as a paid service. This page does not award a contract or give legal advice.