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Editorial and review standards

The standards every Bidq report is held to.

Bidq operates to documented standards. They are written down, they are reviewed against, and they govern what gets issued under the Bidq name. This page is the canonical record.

Standards

Six commitments. Audited every report.

01

SRA-regulated solicitor review

Every Bidq report is reviewed and signed off by a property solicitor regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority of England & Wales before it is released to a client. No report leaves Bidq without solicitor sign-off.

02

Document-grounded analysis only

Every conclusion is traceable to a clause, page or specific missing item in the source documents. We do not editorialise beyond the pack. Where the pack is silent, the report says so — and assesses the gap.

03

Investor lens

Every issue is assessed for its impact on bidding, ownership, finance and exit. The report answers a single commercial question — should you proceed, and on what terms? — not a generic legal one.

04

Calibrated risk framework

Red, amber and green ratings with consistent, written-down definitions. Red is critical and should reduce your ceiling £-for-£. Amber is conditional and should be priced into your bid or addressed pre-completion. Green is clear with no action required.

05

Premium prose, no boilerplate

No rough notes. No generic legal templates. No "consult your solicitor" tail-clauses substituting for analysis. The report reads as decision-grade commercial prose, written for the bidder.

06

No named individuals as authors

Reports are issued under the Bidq name. Authority sits with the firm and our standards, not with any individual reviewer. The reviewing solicitor is on the record internally; the report is signed off by Bidq.

The review chain

Every report runs the same chain.

The Bidq review chain is fixed. It exists so that every report — regardless of tier, asset class or buyer — is produced to the same standard and held to the same sign-off.

  1. 01

    Intake

    Instruction received, payment confirmed, documents indexed. The reviewing solicitor is assigned based on the tier, the asset class and the deal shape.

  2. 02

    Document review

    The legal pack is reviewed in full against the Bidq diligence framework. Findings are recorded against the structured rating, action and citation schema.

  3. 03

    Solicitor sign-off

    The draft report is reviewed by a member of the Bidq solicitor review team against published editorial standards. No report is released without this step.

  4. 04

    Delivery

    The report is delivered to the client inbox. Supplementary reviews and solicitor calls are available as separate add-ons keyed to the same engagement.

Scope

What Bidq is not.

Bidq provides document-based pre-acquisition due diligence. Bidq does not provide regulated legal advice within the meaning of the Legal Services Act 2007, is not a reserved legal activity provider, and is not a substitute for instructing a solicitor on the transaction itself.

This separation is the product strength, not a caveat. The Bidq report is designed to be the document a buyer reads before they bid. The conveyancing solicitor remains responsible for acting on the transaction. The two work together.

Bidq is registered in England & Wales. Use of Bidq is subject to our Terms and Conditions and Disclaimer.