The problem, stated properly
Miss a compulsory site briefing and your bid is thrown out, however good your price is. The briefing is usually set about eleven days after the advert goes up, so by the time a tender surfaces in a weekly roundup, the meeting has often already happened. Contractors solve this by checking portals daily. Most don't have the time.
A contractor tells us three things once: class of works, grading, regions. Twice a week they get only the tenders that match and are still open, ordered so the ones they can still act on come first.
The rule that shaped it
The SMS is not a shorter report. It is the one fact that expires.
The email is the report. The SMS leads with the briefings still ahead, names the first one in full, and links to the rest. The composer trims to two GSM-7 segments and strips anything outside that alphabet, because one en dash turns the whole message into UCS-2 and halves what fits.
