Design Competitions for Government Agencies
Run transparent, procurement-compliant design competitions that engage the public, satisfy audit requirements, and attract the world's best designers to your civic projects.
The Challenges Government Agencies Face
Procurement Transparency Requirements
Public sector design tenders must satisfy strict procurement regulations. Manual processes and email-based submissions create documentation gaps that expose agencies to legal challenge and public scrutiny.
Mandatory Public Engagement
Government bodies are under pressure to demonstrate genuine community involvement in design decisions for public spaces and infrastructure. Closed selection processes erode public trust and face political backlash.
Demonstrating Value for Public Money
Agencies must justify expenditure to taxpayers and oversight bodies. Without structured, comparable evaluations and documented rationale, design selection decisions are vulnerable to challenge and audit findings.
How UNI Solves Them
Built for public accountability. Every UNI feature that matters to government clients - blind review, audit trails, public voting - is available out of the box, with no bespoke development required.
Blind Jury & Documented Evaluation
UNI's anonymised blind review system removes identifying information from submissions, ensuring evaluators assess design merit alone. Every score, comment, and decision is time-stamped and permanently logged, creating an unimpeachable audit trail for your records.
Structured Public Voting Rounds
Open public voting phases let communities meaningfully participate in shortlisting before expert jury finalises the winner. Transparent vote tallies, participant maps, and engagement reports demonstrate genuine community consultation to stakeholders and elected officials.
Multi-Round Weighted Evaluation
Configure multi-stage review workflows with weighted scoring criteria aligned to your procurement rubric. Jurors evaluate each criterion independently, generating defensible, criterion-level justifications that satisfy internal audit and external review requirements.
Purpose-Built for Public Sector Requirements
Compliance-Ready Evaluation Framework
Configurable scoring rubrics map directly to your procurement criteria. Every juror action - scoring, commenting, abstaining - is captured with a timestamp, creating a complete, exportable audit record.
Blind Anonymous Review
Automated anonymisation strips submitter identity from all materials before jury access. Prevents bias, satisfies equal-treatment procurement obligations, and eliminates conflicts of interest at the evaluation stage.
Public Voting & Community Engagement
Open public voting phases with one-vote-per-participant controls and live participation dashboards. Geographic heat maps and engagement summaries provide ready-made evidence for community consultation reports.
Automated Certificate Generation
Award-verified digital certificates are issued automatically to winners and shortlisted entrants. Reduces administrative load on your team and provides participants with professionally recognised credentials.
Full Data Export & Reporting
Export all submissions, scores, juror comments, and voting data in structured formats compatible with government information management systems. Meets data sovereignty requirements for on-site archiving.
Secure, Role-Based Access Control
Separate access tiers for administrators, jury members, observers, and public participants. Ensures internal evaluators cannot influence public voting and vice versa, with a full access log for each role.
Most government agencies choose our Enterprise tier for full compliance support and dedicated account management.
Choose Your Hosting Package
Tailored for Government & Municipalities
Starter
For small-scale municipal briefs and pilot programmes.
- Up to 200 submissions
- Blind jury evaluation
- Up to 5 jurors
- Basic scoring rubric
- Digital certificates
- PDF audit report
- Email support
Standard
For mid-size competitions requiring public engagement phases.
- Up to 800 submissions
- Blind jury evaluation
- Up to 15 jurors
- Multi-round elimination
- Public voting phase
- Weighted scoring criteria
- Geographic engagement maps
- Full data export
- Priority email support
Premium
For major competitions requiring full compliance documentation.
- Unlimited submissions
- Blind jury evaluation
- Unlimited jurors
- Multi-stage evaluation workflows
- Public voting with fraud controls
- Custom scoring rubrics
- Compliance audit trail export
- Community consultation report
- Dedicated onboarding session
- Priority phone & email support
Enterprise
Full compliance support, data sovereignty options, and a dedicated account manager.
- Everything in Premium
- Multi-competition programme management
- On-premise or private cloud deployment
- Data sovereignty & localisation
- Custom procurement integration
- Dedicated account manager
- Formal SLA with uptime guarantee
- Legal & compliance review support
- Staff training sessions
Government FAQs
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