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: every data story carries the byline "Written with data automation, reviewed by" a named human editor.
• Every figure, date and organisation name in a data story is verified mechanically against the source notice before a human sees the draft. Stories that fail verification are not published.
• No story is published without human approval. There is no unattended publishing.

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 names its author and its human reviewer, both with real profiles.
• Mistakes are corrected visibly under our corrections policy.