- 1,172live tenders under £5m
- 2,939live tenders in total, all sizes
- £1.1bn+in live contracts under £5m
- 4closing today (£6.1m+ worth)
- 466new this week
- 254at least this many explicitly flagged for SMEs
- 1,506pipeline notices tracked
- 4,213matches scored for users this week
- 205,333awarded contracts tracked
- £2.1tn+in awarded contract value tracked
- 1,318contracts awarded this week
- 1,172live tenders under £5m
- 2,939live tenders in total, all sizes
- £1.1bn+in live contracts under £5m
- 4closing today (£6.1m+ worth)
- 466new this week
- 254at least this many explicitly flagged for SMEs
- 1,506pipeline notices tracked
- 4,213matches scored for users this week
- 205,333awarded contracts tracked
- £2.1tn+in awarded contract value tracked
- 1,318contracts awarded this week
UK public sector tenders
Win the work you're built for.
Every tender read the way an evaluation panel reads it - then matching, the written bid, social value and price worked through as one submission. One system built for UK public procurement, so the parts agree with each other instead of being five separate jobs.
Join the businesses signing up every day — and get tenders scored to you, a first shortlist, and a bid built from your own evidence. Tenders close whether you saw them or not.
- 1Describe your business in plain English - two minutes
- 2Your first shortlist comes back scored to you
- 3No card needed on Free - cancel any time
Built for UK businesses large and small - whether you have a whole bid team or have never bid for public work before.
Covering 7 GB sources across 12 sectors
Sources
Find a Tender (Central Digital Platform) · Contracts Finder · Public Contracts Scotland · Sell2Wales (historical notices) · ProContract (local-authority councils) · YORtender (Yorkshire & Humber councils) · Atamis (NHS)
What it does
Four steps - and the machine that runs them.
Find the live tenders that fit, qualify them in seconds, build the bid with you, and win more of the work you're built for - on a system made for UK public procurement, not a chatbot with a logo.
Major GB sources, one feed
Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and ProContract's council portals - pulled into one feed and refreshed daily, so you're not trawling six portals yourself.
Scored to you - and cleared to bid
Every match ranked Strong, Fair or Development against your business and track record, plus a pass/fail read on regime, turnover, certs and frameworks - the reasoning behind each, before you sink a day into it.
The whole submission, built with you
A first draft from your banked evidence and marked against the criteria, the social value case in the buyer's own language, and a costed price with the value-for-money argument - nothing written twice, and you confirm every word and number.
Win more of the work you're built for
Contract more of the work you're built for - won at a fraction of the price and effort, without living in the portals.
Under the bonnet: a real UK-procurement engine - matching, eligibility, a multi-stage bid-build pipeline and a pricing & value-for-money engine - built by people who win and score public bids.
See how it works →Under the bonnet
A real engine - matching, eligibility, a multi-stage bid-build pipeline and a pricing & value-for-money engine, on a UK-procurement core built by people who win and score public bids. It reads the procurement regime, and where a sector carries named, checkable standards it holds the bid against those too.
See the full system →Your bidding cockpit.
Matches, deadlines, market intel, pricing and your bid pipeline - your whole bidding operation in one place.
Swipe through 7 ways the cockpit works · example
Every live tender ranked Strong, Fair or Development out of 10 - so you only see the work worth your time.
Why BidSquirrel
Everything it takes to win, in one place.
Finding the right contract is hard, and we do it across seven GB sources. Drafting the answers is hard too, and by 2026 most of the category will do that with you. Neither is where a bid is won or lost. Everyone else stops at the words. What decides it is whether you can bid at all, what to charge - the costed price and value-for-money case no rival covers - and whether you keep the work once you have it. BidSquirrel does the whole run, and every bid is built from the evidence the last one banked, so the work compounds instead of starting over. Here is how that compares.
Swipe the alternatives
BidSquirrel
All of it, for £49.99/mo
- 1. Find the work
- Brings you the right contracts, scored - across major GB sources
- 2. Confirm you can bid
- Checks the gates before you commit a week - and tells you which bids are worth the time
- 3. Write and price the bid
- Drafts with you from your evidence - then helps you price to win with a costed breakdown and the value-for-money case
- 4. Keep it, and grow it
- Tracks when your contracts re-tender, watches the buyers who awarded them, and surfaces the direct awards that never reach an open tender
And it is one system, not bolted-together tools: your evidence, your rates and your answers are banked once and drawn on by every bid after it - so the second bid is faster than the first, and the tenth is faster again.
And it is not one person's job. Your account carries the admin plus 3 colleagues on their own logins, included rather than priced per head, working on the same bid with comments against the answers themselves and one shared evidence vault - instead of a shared login, a folder, and the latest draft somewhere in an email thread.
Less wasted time
Right work found, qualified and prioritised for you
Lower cost
A full bid build every month, not four figures a bid
A higher win rate
Drafted and priced to the scoresheet by an expert procurement core
Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and council portals are official, free services - BidSquirrel aggregates and scores them, and you always verify each opportunity against the official notice. Bid-writing fees and other tools' prices are typical ranges and vary by provider; some bundle data analytics or enterprise APIs you may never use.
Go deeper on the stages after the tender: how bid pricing works, tracking contract renewals and who buys what across the public sector.
Start where your firm already wins: live construction & trades tenders, facilities management & cleaning contracts, electrical opportunities across GB, IT, digital & G-Cloud work · every sector
See how BidSquirrel compares with Stotles, Tussell and the incumbent trackers
The half nobody helps with
You are not scored on words alone.
Every public tender publishes how it will be scored. Price and value for money are routinely a fifth of that score, and on price-weighted competitions they are most of it. The rest of the category will help you write the left-hand side. Not one of them touches the right.
quality
on the tender
price
On a UK public tender, price and value for money account for between 20% and 70% of the total score. The remainder is quality, method and social value.
A costed breakdown
Line by line from the scope, on your own rates or clearly-labelled estimates.
A price band, not a number
Win probability weighed against margin, with a what-if against the tender’s own scoring formula.
The value-for-money case
Written for the most advantageous bid, not the cheapest. Every figure stays yours.
Built to be trusted
How we keep it honest.
You're trusting us with your evidence and your bids. Here is the market you're bidding into, how we keep it honest, and who stands behind it.
£2bn+
in sub-£1m contracts awarded across GB (last 90 days)
1,514
public buyers awarding them
7
major GB sources in one feed
30+
expert scenarios in the scoring regression suite
- We never invent facts or figures
- Anything the draft can't evidence comes back flagged for you to confirm - never fabricated. The evidence, the final words and every number stay yours.
- Real, verifiable opportunities
- Advertised values are the buyer's own, and we always tell you to check each against the official notice. Our AI is decision support - you see the reasoning behind every score.
- We publish what we do not cover
- Seven GB sources, and a public map of the portals we miss and why. A coverage claim you cannot check is a coverage claim worth nothing, so ours is a page you can read before you buy.See what we miss →
- We show what the buyer published, and nothing else
- Contact details come from the notice itself. We never enrich them, never look anyone up, and never buy a list. If the buyer did not publish it, we do not have it.Our position on buyer contacts →
- A real UK company
- Orcana Ltd, registered at Companies House (no. 17263330) and the ICO (no. ZC171438), based in Hull. We never use your data to train AI models.
- Built by people who have run public procurement, and bid into it successfully
- Both sides of the table. Which is why the scoring reads like an evaluation panel - specific, evidenced answers up, generic prose down - not a keyword search.
Never bid for public work?
Your next growth channel is already published.
Councils, the NHS, schools, housing associations and government departments have to advertise what they intend to buy, and most of it is open to any competent firm — no framework, no track record of public work, no invitation needed. It is the one sales channel where the customer writes down what they want, when they want it and what they will pay, before you speak to them. The question is not whether you are allowed to bid. It is which of it is worth your time.
- Hire a salesperson
- £30,000–45,000 a year, plus on-costs
- A whole salary before the first bid goes in, and public buyers do not buy from a cold call.
- Pay a bid consultant
- £500–£2,000 per bid
- They write the one bid you hand them. Finding the work, and knowing whether it was worth bidding for, is still yours.
- Spend more on marketing
- Variable, and hard to attribute
- You are guessing at demand. Public buyers publish theirs in advance, in writing.
- Carry on as you are
- Nothing
- Genuinely free, and the cost is the work you never saw. Which is the problem: it never shows up on any invoice.
- BidSquirrel
- £49.99/mo, or free to look
- We show you what is open to a firm your size, score it against your business, and tell you honestly when not to bid.
Salary and consultant figures are typical UK ranges for comparison, not quotes. BidSquirrel is £49.99/mo; browsing and your top matches scored are free, and adding your business starts a 30-day Pro trial with no card. New to this? How to win public-sector contracts is the place to start, and council contracts under £30k covers the smaller work most firms bid for first.
Free, or one simple Pro plan.
Browse live tenders from major GB sources and see your top matches scored with can-you-bid checks - free, no card. Add your business and a 30-day Pro trial starts automatically, still no card: every match scored, full bid readiness, the full bid built with you and priced to win. Keep the free tier; add a card only to stay on Pro (£49.99/mo).
Free
No card, ever
- Browse live tenders from major GB public-sector sources, updated daily
- Your top matches scored out of 10 - Strong, Fair or Development - free
- Can-you-bid checks and what to fix on those top matches
- Who's winning: recently-awarded contracts, renewals coming up and framework finder
- Save tenders and a weekly digest of new matches
- One full AI-built bid preview, to see the quality before you commit
- A 30-day Pro trial starts automatically once your profile is complete - still no card
Pro
30-day Pro trial, no card, then £49.99/mo
Less than an hour of a bid consultant's time - every month.
Everything in Free, plus:
- Every match scored, with the full reasoning behind each one - not just your top few
- Up to 3 full bid drafts a month, written with you from your evidence and stress-tested against the criteria
- A costed price and the value-for-money case, so you price to win - you own every number
- Expert social value, written to your buyer's own framework
- Full bid readiness, ITT-checked conditions, Evidence Vault and the shared ITT
- Calendar, reminders and a daily digest
No card to start - your 30-day Pro trial begins the moment you add your business. Keep the free tier; add a card only to stay on Pro.
Answered.
How accurate is the matching?
The AI scores each tender against your real business and uploaded documents, with a strong / fair / development verdict and the reasoning behind it. Your top matches are scored free, no card; Pro scores every match and adds eligibility checks and how-to-win. You always see why a contract scored the way it did, so you stay in control of the call.
Do I need to be on a framework to bid?
No. Most public work is tendered openly, not through a framework, and an SME can bid on its own. Where a contract does run through a framework or dynamic market, the eligibility check flags it and tells you what it takes to get on - so you know before you spend time on it.
How many tenders will I actually see?
It depends on your trade and patch, but we pull the major GB sources - Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and the ProContract council portals - into one feed, including the smaller contracts the big incumbents skip. You can see live volume for your area and trade before you even sign up, on the "what could you win" check.
Do you write the bid for me?
We do more than score it - we build the full draft with you. Pick a tender and the system drafts every answer from your own banked evidence, scores its own draft against the criteria, refines the weak sections and strips out anything generic a panel would mark down, then hands it back with the exact facts for you to confirm - never invented. You supply the evidence and the final words, so the bid is strong and genuinely yours, not the generic AI prose a panel can spot and mark down.
Why not just use ChatGPT?
Because a general AI tool has never sat on an evaluation panel. BidSquirrel's expert system is built for UK procurement: it knows which regime governs each tender, scores with an evaluator's discipline (specific, evidenced answers up; generic prose down), and is regression-tested against a library of expert bid scenarios before any change ships.
Can I cancel any time?
Yes. There is no contract or notice period: cancel in a click and you keep access until the end of your billing period.
Is my data safe?
Yes. We are registered with the ICO and handle your data under UK GDPR. We never use your data to train AI models, and your private data - your Evidence Vault, profile, drafts and responses - stays accessible to you alone. An ITT you add is the buyer's common tender pack (the same document every bidder gets): we keep its text as a shared reference for that tender so other bidders don't re-upload it - never your bid, never used for training. You can export or permanently delete your account and data yourself at any time. The full detail is in our Privacy Policy.
Is BidSquirrel an alternative to Find a Tender and Contracts Finder?
Find a Tender is now the government's central portal for new tenders, with Contracts Finder still carrying notices from procurements begun under the older rules, and both are free. But you have to search them (and the Scottish, Welsh and council systems) yourself, with no scoring or guidance. BidSquirrel pulls major GB public-sector sources into one place and scores each tender to your business, so you only see the ones worth bidding for, with how-to-win guidance the portals do not provide.
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