JTC bids goodbye to the paper-heavy world of construction tenders
Source: The Business Times
Published on: 2026-04-07 22:07
[SINGAPORE] Public-sector procurement is not typically where one usually finds technological innovation. The processes are deliberate, the governance requirements demanding, and the consequences of error in a high-stakes construction award can be potentially costly for years downstream. But JTC Corporation's generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Evaluation Virtual Assistant (EVA), is changing that. The tool is designed to modernise one of the most document-intensive processes in government contracting. Each construction tender that JTC processes involves roughly eight evaluators, approximately 14 man-days of work per person, and submissions that can run to some 30 documents for each tenderer. With around 40 construction tenders evaluated annually, the cumulative toll is estimated at approximately 34,000 man-hours a year. EVA addresses this by deploying large language models t...
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