Trust

Editorial standards

Tender Gazette publishes data journalism built from official procurement notices. These standards are binding on everything we publish, human-written or machine-drafted.

Sourcing

• We source only from open-licensed or public-domain material: official notices, government publications and our own analysis. We never rewrite other publishers' journalism.
• Every story links to the official notice or document it is built from.

Automation, honestly

• Data stories are drafted with automation and say so in the byline. A story approved by the Editorial Desk names it; a story published under the standing rules below says "verified against the official notice" instead, and never claims a human review it did not have.
• Every figure, date and organisation name in a data story is verified mechanically against the source notice. Stories that fail verification are not published.
• Policy and analysis pieces are always approved one at a time by the Editorial Desk. Routine notice-derived data stories that pass every mechanical check may publish under the Editorial Desk's standing approval rules, capped at a small number per day; anything the verifier, the safety screen or the review model flags waits for the Editorial Desk.

Tone

Factual, source-led scrutiny, never ridicule. We report what public bodies buy and what it costs; we do not run gotcha framing against the people doing the buying.

Accountability

• Every article states how it was produced: author and reviewer for human-reviewed pieces, the standing verification rules for the rest. The Editorial Desk is accountable for all of it. (R4: a named, accountable human editorial identity — the Tender Gazette Editorial Desk — with no individual named on any public surface.)
• Mistakes are corrected visibly under our corrections policy.