Features
Everything the portals publish, filtered down to what you can win
Public procurement has an information problem rather than an access problem. Every notice is already public. The difficulty is that they arrive across four separate portals, in volumes no bid team can read, described in language written for compliance rather than for finding work. Tender Radar sits on top of that firehose. It filters each day's notices down to what you could win, shows what is coming up for renewal long before it is advertised, and gives your team one place to understand the market and plan the work.
The daily scored digest
Every weekday morning, before 9am, Tender Radar collects the notices published across all four portals since the last run and scores each one against your profile. That profile is built from your business description, keywords, CPV codes, target buyers, minimum and maximum contract value, regions and procurement stages.
Scoring is the part that saves the time. A keyword filter alone returns everything containing the word “data”, which on a normal day is a few hundred notices, most of them irrelevant. Scoring reads the notice properly and asks whether this is work your organisation could credibly bid for, then ranks accordingly. Strong matches sit at the top with a one line explanation of why. Everything below the threshold never reaches your inbox.
- Arrives before 9am, Monday to Friday
- Each notice scored and banded, strongest first
- A short rationale on every match, so you can trust or dismiss it in seconds
- Buyer, value, deadline and a direct link to the source notice
- Daily or weekly cadence, set per recipient list, so a bid team can read it every morning while directors get a Monday summary
- Unlimited recipients on a single radar, with no per seat charge
- An explicit line when a source found nothing, so silence is never ambiguous
Renewal radar
This is the part most alert services do not have, because it needs award history rather than live notices. When a contract is awarded, the notice usually records its start and end dates. Tender Radar keeps those dates and works backwards from them.
The result is a forward view: contracts in your categories that are due to expire in the next 18 months, who currently holds them, what they were worth, and which buyer will need to re-procure. By the time a re-tender is published, the specification has usually been written and the incumbent has been talking to the buyer for months. The renewal radar is how you get into that conversation while it is still open.
- Contracts with end dates recorded
- 170,000
- Every one is a future opportunity for somebody
- Expiring within 18 months
- 31,000
- Filtered to your categories in your digest
- Award records held
- 295,000
- The history the forward view is built from
- Supplier organisations seen
- 137,000
- Including whoever currently holds the work
Displacement alerts
Name the competitors you lose to. Tender Radar tracks the contracts they hold and tells you when those contracts approach their end date.
It is the renewal radar pointed at a specific supplier rather than a category, and it changes the question from “what is open today” to “where is my competitor exposed next year”. For organisations trying to break into an account held by an incumbent, that is usually the only realistic route in.
On-demand reports
Beyond the daily email, you can pull a report on your own radar at any time: how many notices were scanned over the period, how many cleared your threshold, which buyers appeared most often in your digests, and how your team engaged with them.
It is the answer to the question every subscription eventually faces, which is what it has actually returned, and it is the evidence you need when that comes up at renewal.
Your market on one page
The digest tells you what was published today. Intelligence tells you what the market looks like: how many contracts there are in your line of work, who buys them, who wins them, what size they usually are, and which are coming up for renewal.
Every figure is worked out from contract award data, with no AI involved, and each pointer links to the list that proves it. If one of your CPV codes is quietly pulling in work that is not yours, it says so, and an admin can leave that code out.
- Contracts, buyers, competitors and typical value in your market
- Plain-English pointers on where to look first
- Busiest buyers and the suppliers who win the work
- Contract sizes and awards by year
A pipeline ordered by when you can act
Contracts in your market ending in the next 3 to 18 months, soonest first, never sorted by size. A £90m outsourcing deal is not an opportunity for a ten-person consultancy, so frameworks with dozens of suppliers and contracts far outside your market are set aside with the reason shown, not hidden.
- Who holds each contract, with competitors marked
- What the notice says about extending, or that it says nothing
- “Why am I seeing this?” names the keyword or code that matched
- The full list in Excel, and end dates straight into your calendar
A tracker the whole team shares
Track any contract, buyer or competitor with one click. Everyone in your organisation sees the same list, so two people never chase the same tender and nothing depends on one person's inbox.
When a contract you are tracking comes back out to tender, the person who owns it gets an email the next morning. The match needs the same buyer and a closely matching title, and it shows the words it matched on, so you can judge it in a glance.
- Stages from watching through bidding to won or lost
- An owner for every item, and notes only your organisation can read
- Re-tender and early market engagement alerts
- Export the tracker to Excel at any time
Briefings you can check
Open a briefing on any competitor or buyer and you get a short summary of what they supply or buy, who for and at what scale, with every fact it was written from printed beside it. Nothing in it has to be taken on trust.
AI writes only the two or three summary sentences, and only from those facts. Each organisation has 20 new briefings a month included, and any briefing someone has already opened is free.
Built for teams
Admins set the direction, everyone can contribute
The profile decides what the whole organisation sees each morning, so only its admins can change it. Everyone else can still say what they think should change, without a chain of emails.
Admins and members
Admins manage the profile, the people and billing. Members use everything else: the digest, Intelligence, the tracker and briefings.
Suggest a change
A member sends a suggestion from the portal. The admins get an email, answer it from their profile page, and the member hears back either way.
No per seat charge
Add everyone who works on bids. The price is per radar, not per person, and every feature on this page is included.
Optional extra feeds
Four more sources, off by default
UK procurement is the core of the product, so nothing below is switched on unless you ask for it. Each one matters enormously to a particular kind of organisation and is pure noise to everyone else, which is exactly why they are per radar toggles rather than part of the standard digest.
Accountants, lawyers and B2B services
New company formations
Every new incorporation at Companies House, filtered to the postcode areas and SIC codes you care about. If your practice grows by reaching businesses in their first weeks, this is a daily list of them in your patch rather than a bought lead list.
Organisations selling into Europe
TED, EU and EEA tenders
Tenders Electronic Daily carries public procurement across the EU and EEA. Useful if you already deliver in Europe or are actively opening that market, and irrelevant enough to everyone else that it stays off unless you enable it.
Organisations selling into the US
SAM.gov, US federal contracts
US federal opportunities from the official SAM.gov system. Aimed at UK firms with a US entity or an established route into federal work, where the volume would otherwise swamp a UK focused digest.
Universities and research organisations
UKRI and grant funding
Research council calls from UKRI, UK government grant programmes from Find a Grant, and EU funding calls, scored against the same profile. New opportunities are separated from ones already surfaced, so a call open for months does not reappear as news each morning.
Control
Tuned by you, not by us
A tender alert service is only as good as the filter behind it, and the filter has to be yours. Your organisation's admins can edit every part of the profile from the portal, and changes take effect on the next run.
- Include and exclude keywords
- CPV codes at any level
- Minimum and maximum contract value
- Procurement stage: live tender, early engagement, award
- Named target buyers
- Named competitors to track
- Per source on and off switches
- Additional feeds: research funding, grants, new company registrations
See it against your own profile
The trial is the real product with your own keywords and categories, not a sample dataset. Set it up and trigger a run immediately.
30 days free. No card required to start.