Notices ingested from
Built by practitioners
£5bn+
of public sector contracts won by the bid leaders whose working methods shaped this platform.
Not an algorithm’s idea of a good bid.
Plenty of tools are built from a dataset and a hunch about how procurement works. BidWise was designed alongside bid directors and proposal leads who have spent their careers winning this work — and every scoring rule, checklist and prompt in it comes from a method that has already won.
- Qualification rules from real bid/no-bid meetings
- The red/amber/green model reproduces how an experienced team sifts a Monday morning list — buyer history, incumbent strength, resource reality — rather than scoring keyword overlap.
- Checklists built from submissions that nearly failed
- The pre-submission checks are the ones that catch what actually loses bids: the unsigned certificate, the missing lot, the pricing schedule in the wrong template.
- Response plans shaped by people who have marked them
- Outlines follow how evaluators award marks, section by section, so the draft you start from is already pointed at the scoring criteria.
The problem
Five platforms, one deadline, nobody with the full picture.
Pipeline lives in a CRM nobody logs into. Responses live in SharePoint. Opportunities arrive as email alerts. Deadlines live in someone’s head. The week before submission the team is reconciling versions instead of writing a better answer.
- 5+
- disconnected tools
- 0
- roles with a live view
- £££
- priced for enterprise
- Day 1
- is a blank page
A CRM, a document store, two or three sourcing portals, email and a spreadsheet — none of them talking to each other.
Directors, operations, bid writers and third parties each see a different, partial version of the truth.
The tools that solve this were built for firms with a ten-person bid function and a consultant on retainer.
There is no formal qualification in bidding. Most people learn it by being handed a deadline and a portal login.
Every live bid, every stage, every deadline.
The pipeline is the home screen. Stages are yours to configure, cards carry the deadline and the owner, and the totals at the top are the same ones your director sees. No decision waits three days for somebody to update a spreadsheet first.
Pipeline
20 live bids · £16.1m weighted value · 4 deadlines this week
Grounds Maintenance Framework
Highland Council
£2.4m / 4 yrs
SEND Home-to-School Transport
Leeds City Council
£860k / 3 yrs
Managed Print Services
Cardiff University
£410k / 5 yrs
Passenger Lift Servicing
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
£1.1m / 5 yrs
Fire Risk Assessments
Places for People
£320k / 2 yrs
Cleaning Services (Lots 1–3)
University of Strathclyde
£3.2m / 5 yrs
62% of sections complete
Cyber Security Assessment
Scottish Water
£240k / 18 mo
38% of sections complete
Reactive Repairs — North
Wheatley Group
£5.8m / 4 yrs
91% of sections complete
Catering Framework — Lot 2
Fife Council
£1.7m / 3 yrs
Find and qualify
Stop reading notices you were never going to win.
Search
Every notice, one search
Keyword, sector, region, value and buyer filters across every feed at once. Save the searches that work and they keep running without you.
Qualification
Red, amber or green before you commit
Every tender is scored against your sector profile, your win history and the capacity you actually have. The thresholds are yours to set.
Feeds
Sources that refresh themselves
Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, eTendersNI and TED — ingested and de-duplicated twice a day.
Deadlines
Dates that chase you
Clarification windows, site visits, internal reviews and the portal cut-off, tracked as one countdown with reminders sent from your own domain.
Favourites
One shortlist for the company
Favourites are shared, not personal. What a colleague flagged on Tuesday is on your list on Wednesday.
Respond and win
The answer you need is already written. Somewhere.
Content library
Searchable, tagged, reusable
Past responses, method statements, case studies and graphics — tagged by topic and sector, with the win record attached, insertable straight into the live answer.
Versions
Never lose a draft again
Every save is a version with an author and a timestamp. Restore any of them in one click.
Collaboration
Third parties in their own lane
External contributors see the section they were assigned and nothing else — not the bid, not the pipeline, not the numbers.
Analytics
Bid history becomes bid strategy
Win and loss rates by sector, buyer, value and team — with insight cards that tell you what the pattern means for the bids you are working on now.
Blank page syndrome
The hardest part is the first move.
Ask BidWise for a response plan and you get a structured outline for that question: sections, word budgets, and the evidence from your own library that supports each one.
- Grounded in the question text, your win strategy and your previous answers
- Generated server-side — your content is never used to train a model
- Accept, edit or dismiss every suggestion. Nothing is written for you