Get a legal check on your RFP response before submission

An RFP response can create problems before any final contract is signed if it overpromises on scope, delivery, staffing, service levels, pricing assumptions, or responsibility for third-party inputs. We look for legal and commercial issues in the submission materials you provide, including unclear commitments, statements that may be hard to deliver in practice, and responses that do not line up neatly with the request documents. It gives you a clearer view of the legal issues that matter most, with final risk management depending on the surrounding facts and business practices. or promise that a bid will succeed.

This consultation is commonly used by businesses submitting a proposal that carries meaningful contractual or operational risk, especially where the customer's request documents are detailed or the opportunity is commercially important. It can also be useful if your team has prepared the response internally and wants an external legal sense-check before lodgement. Because this is a one-off consult, it suits businesses that want focused feedback on one submission rather than end-to-end bid management, negotiations, or a full rewrite of the proposal.

It is usually most helpful to provide the RFP or request documents, your draft response, and any key attachments or schedules that form part of the submission. If there are particular clauses, assumptions, or customer requirements you are worried about, flagging those in advance can help us focus the review. The quality of the advice will depend on the materials available and how complete the draft is. If major documents are missing, we can still discuss the likely issues, but the review will necessarily be more limited.

You may need a broader scope if the proposal is part of a large procurement process, if there are multiple draft rounds, or if the customer documents need detailed contract negotiation alongside the submission. The same applies where your response requires substantial redrafting, sector-specific compliance analysis, or review of several linked documents beyond the main proposal set. This service is intentionally narrower than ongoing bid support. It is best suited to a single submission review and consultation, rather than managing the whole tender process from start to finish.

After the consultation, you should have a clearer view of the main legal and commercial pressure points in the submission and what changes may be worth making before lodgement. In many cases, the next step is for your team to revise the proposal internally using the feedback from the review. If the opportunity progresses and you need help with contract review, negotiation support, or further proposal work, that would usually be a separate service. Ongoing representation is not included in this one-off consult.

Just submit an enquiry via this page or click the 'get started' button on our website to submit an enquiry. After you've submitted an enquiry, one of our legal consultants will review your enquiry within 1 business day and get in touch to get a better idea of exactly what you are looking for.

Then your legal consultant will send through an email with a bit more information about the services you need, along with a fixed fee quote setting out costs, scope of the service and timing. Have a read through it, and if you're happy with the scope, you can accept and sign our engagement letter online - easy!

Once you've formally accepted, we'll connect you with a specialist lawyer and they will work with you to complete your project. They will contact you by email or phone if they need to get in touch.

Sprintlaw works on fixed-fee pricing wherever possible, so you can review the scope and cost before you decide whether to proceed. For the Request For Proposal RFP Submission Advice service, pricing starts from $200.00.

After you enquire, a legal consultant will confirm what is included, the expected timing and whether any extra work is needed before you engage us.

We operate completely online, which means we can help you wherever you are in New Zealand. We have office spaces in Sydney, and in Melbourne, but our use of technology allows our team members to work remotely from around the world. Our legal team are mostly based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. We also have a London office for Sprintlaw UK.

Our legal team is made up of experienced lawyers, who are specialists in various areas of law and hold an Australian legal practising certificate. None of our Sprintlaw lawyers are New Zealand qualified lawyers and they do not currently hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

They provide legal services working remotely from Australia via our 'legal consultancy' model, through which (under section 6 and section 35 of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006) our Australian legal team are permitted to provide legal services to New Zealand businesses provided they do not provide services in certain 'reserved' areas of law. You can read our FAQ page to learn a bit more about our 'legal consultancy' model.

Given the strong similarities between Australian and New Zealand law, and the areas of law in which we practice (being small business and startup law), we do not view the fact that our lawyers have not qualified in New Zealand as having any substantive impact on the quality of our service. We are committed to ensuring that we provide high quality, affordable legal services to all our New Zealand clients.

Our legal team have all trained at leading firms, but have left the traditional corporate law world to join us on our mission to create a new and better way of delivering legal services. They have specialist expertise in technology law, intellectual property law, contract drafting and review, corporate law and commercial law.