For small businesses
Most tender alerts drown small firms in contracts they cannot bid for
Set up a keyword alert on a public procurement portal and the first thing that arrives is a £40 million multi-lot framework with a requirement for three years of audited accounts at a turnover you do not have. The second is a notice from a housing association four hundred miles away. The third is a contract award notice for work that closed a month ago.
None of it is wrong. All of it is useless. For a business without a bid team, that noise is the actual problem, because the cost is not the subscription, it is the twenty minutes a day someone spends triaging notices instead of working.
What actually helps
Three filters that remove most of the noise
A ceiling, not just a floor
Nearly every alert service lets you set a minimum value. Far fewer let you set a maximum. If you cannot deliver a £5 million contract, seeing them daily costs you attention and gains you nothing.
Below threshold sources
The contracts an SME wins are usually published below the Find a Tender threshold, on Contracts Finder and the devolved portals. A service watching only the headline portal will miss most of your winnable market.
Relevance, not keyword matching
Keyword filters return everything containing your word. Scoring reads the notice and judges whether this is work your business could credibly deliver, then ranks it, so the top of the email is worth reading first.
The bigger advantage
Small firms lose on timing more than on price
By the time a tender is published, a larger competitor has usually known about it for months. They have spoken to the buyer, shaped the requirement, and prepared their response. An SME finding the same notice on the day it appears is competing from behind with three weeks to write a submission.
The renewal radar closes that gap. Contract end dates are published in award notices, so you can see which contracts in your categories expire in the next 18 months, who holds them and what they are worth. That is enough time to introduce yourself to the buyer before the re-tender is written.
- Minimum and maximum contract value
- All four UK portals, including below threshold work
- Exclude keywords to kill recurring irrelevance
- Contracts expiring in your categories, 18 months ahead
- Named competitors tracked for expiry
- One email a day, not a portal to check
Cost
£30 a month, against the cost of missing one contract
There is no enterprise tier and no per user pricing, because a five person consultancy needing the renewal radar should not be paying enterprise rates to get it. The trial is thirty days, requires no card, and runs against your own profile rather than a demo dataset.
Set a ceiling and see what is left
Put in your real value range and your actual categories. If the digest that arrives tomorrow is full of contracts you could genuinely bid for, it is doing its job.
30 days free. No card required to start.