Editorial standards

• We publish two kinds of piece: field notes, on a procurement round, tender or rule, and sector guides, on how procurement works in one energy sector. Alongside them we keep two reference pages: a glossary of tender and auction terms and a checklist of what to have ready before a tender opens.
• We do not publish general explanatory articles: every piece is written for a named reader, such as a bid manager, and says what the rule means for that reader.
• A field note gives a short checklist of what to check in the tender where its subject has practical steps for a bidder.
• Each sector guide is reviewed at least every six months, and sooner when an event it describes has taken place. When a review is overdue, the guide says “Under review” at the top.
• Field notes are dated: each describes a round or rule as it stood on its publication date. We correct a field note only if it was wrong on that date.
• No company pays to be covered, ranked or left out, and we publish no sponsored content.

• Each piece starts from the documents that set the rules: tender notices, auction rules, regulations and contracts.
• Every number in a worked example is shown with its unit. Values taken from a source document are shown apart from the assumptions we chose for the example, and each published value is linked to its source.
• Amounts in different currencies are never converted without stating the rate, its source and its date.
• Our own calculations and interpretations are identifiable as ours, and each is checked against the facts it rests on, which are cited on the same page.
• Every number on a page is tied to a registered fact and its source, and every insight to facts cited on the same page.
• A figure that changes over time, such as a price or a count, is always shown with the date it applies to.
• We never present our interpretation as first-hand bidding experience.
• A procurement round is never presented as open or upcoming once it has closed: its state is worked out from its published dates on the day the page is built.

• Every source a piece cites is an entry in our sources register, numbered in the list at the end of the piece with its type and the date it was last verified.
• At the top of every piece we show the date its sources were last verified, the countries it covers and the procurement rounds it covers.
• We use primary procurement, regulatory and contracting sources wherever available.
• A specialist publication is cited only when no official source could be found, and never for a fact an official source states.
• Every source is a real document, recorded in our sources register with its address and verification record.
• Every source has a verification record that says where in the document each fact appears, and every source link is checked before publication.
• Where two sources disagree, the piece is not published until the conflict is resolved and recorded.

• We use AI tools to help research and draft. A person reviews every piece against its cited sources before it is published, and ListingMinds holds editorial responsibility for everything we publish.
• Nothing is published without a person's recorded approval of that exact version: a piece changed after its approval cannot be published until it is approved again.

• When we correct a material mistake, the correction is shown at the end of the piece with its date.
• The “Updated” date changes only for a substantive update, not for a typo or a layout change.
• A piece that is replaced stays at its address, says it is archived and links to its replacement; it leaves every list, the feed and the sitemap.

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• Every piece is published by ListingMinds, the company, never under a person's name.