How a review runs

A numbered sample, a quiet table, and a findings note with page references.

This is the working sequence for an application audit at Query Signal Core. It is the same whether the pack is a tender about to be submitted or a quarter’s purchase requisitions already on the shelf.

Intake

You name the class of application, the period or closing date, and where the papers live. We confirm we are not already conflicted on the same file, and we send a short engagement note with the desk-day fee and what we will not do (no bid writing, no voting on an evaluation we have reviewed).

Sample and rules

For a single tender pack, the sample is the whole pack. For a population of requisitions or vendor applications, we agree a draw from a named period before the first morning. You also send the instruction, policy, or onboarding checklist that governed those applications.

Desk days

We work at 6, Jalan Batu 3, or in a room you provide. Each file gets a contents list, a completeness pass, then a consistency pass. Missing pages are listed the same day so someone can fetch them while we are still in the building.

Findings note

You receive a written note: each finding tied to a page, form, or minute. We distinguish absent documents from documents that are present but cannot do the work the instruction requires. There is a short close-out conversation. No dashboard, no score out of a hundred unless you asked for a trail map of existing scores.

If you repair the file

A later corrective re-audit uses the original numbering on a fresh sample from the period after the repair. We do not tick findings closed on the strength of a circular alone.

Start with a file intake

Two colleagues comparing notes over printed documents at a table

What to bring

  • The governing instruction or internal procedure
  • The applications themselves, as files, not as a promise
  • The intake log, if applications were received
  • Scoring sheets and minutes, if an evaluation already happened
  • One person who can retrieve a missing page the same day