Use a real public opportunity, fictional award, or safely sanitized agreement. A reviewer must be able to trace each material decision and obligation to its source, owner, evidence, status, limitation, and next action.
Ten required components
Funder-fit and bid/no-bid decision.
Eligibility and organization evidence-pack index.
Grant-obligation matrix and RACI.
Compliance calendar.
Award-startup control plan.
Budget assumptions, allowability questions, forecast, and variance controls.
Grant-file and document-control index.
Partner due-diligence, consortium-role, and fair capacity-support plan.
Risk, gap, condition, incident, and corrective-action register.
Reporting, claim-evidence, communication, change, amendment, closeout, and learning plan.
Tabletop tests
Test a delayed activity, material inflation pressure, a local partner with credible equivalent evidence but one control gap, and a safeguarding or fraud concern close to a reporting deadline.
Review standard
The pack must be donor-specific, internally owned, financially traceable, safe for affected people, fair to partners, explicit about uncertainty, and maintainable after staff turnover.