Searching portal by portal
Each buyer publishes in its own way, so checking free tender portals one at a time can take hours every week. Tenderbase brings relevant notices into one search, with saved searches and alerts.
Tender Software for Small Businesses in the UK and Ireland
Small businesses and SMEs often compete for public sector work with no bid team behind them. Sole traders, solo bidders and very small teams need the right tenders without losing their week. Tenderbase brings relevant UK and Irish tenders into one search, with matched results and alerts. You decide which bids are worth your time, and we help you keep track of them.
14-day free trial
UK and Ireland coverage options
Plans from £25 a month
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Search tendersGrounds maintenance · West Yorkshire
Excellent Match
Grounds maintenance services
West Yorkshire · Open tender
Good Match
Facilities management services
Regional opportunity
Saved searchEmail alerts active
Tendering Takes Time
Your Business Doesn’t Have
Most small firms don’t have a bid team or a spare afternoon.
Searching portals,
judging notices and reading long documents all
compete with paid work.
Notices that look right but aren’t
A search for “maintenance” can return work you can’t deliver. Filtering by service, region, buyer and contract value keeps your results relevant to what you actually do.
Contracts that don’t fit your capacity
A tender might ask for staff cover, technical evidence or delivery across several sites. Finding that out late means hours spent on a bid you can’t deliver.
No picture of the buyer
A notice describes the job, but not the buyer. Buyer intelligence shows previous contracts, award values and suppliers wherever those records are available.
Find, Track and Judge Tenders
From One Place
From One Place
Tenderbase supports small suppliers from first search to shortlist,
all in one place. What you see depends on your plan’s coverage.
Search for the contracts you can deliver
Use tender search to filter by trade, region, buyer, contract value and date. Search with the words your customers use, and add CPV codes, the standard category numbers buyers use, to catch tenders with different titles.
Saved searches, matches and alerts in one view
Turn any search into a saved alert, get matched tender alerts, and see matches ranked by fit to your business.
Explore tender matching
From First Search to
Submitted Bid in Four Steps
01
Choose your services and area
Start with the work you already deliver well. Pick the regions you cover and the contract values you can manage. A grounds maintenance firm in Leeds, for example, might search for grass cutting, parks maintenance and grounds care across West Yorkshire.
COMPARISON
Free Portals or Buyer Intelligence Software?
Free Portals or Buyer Intelligence Software?
Choose What Fits Your Pipeline.
See the difference at a glance and understand the value of Tenderbase.
VS
Free Portals
- Find buyers in your sector
- Check past awards
- Track competitions
- Spot upcoming work
- Buyer research across the UK & Ireland
- Published award records and buyer history
- Competitor tracking and market insight
- PIN and pipeline tracking with alerts
Free Portals
- Search published notices one portal at a time
- Read each notice yourself
- Free saved-search email alerts
- Keep your own spreadsheet
- Search UK and Irish sources within your plan’s coverage
- Matches labelled Excellent, Good or Potential
- Tailored daily or weekly alerts from your criteria
- PIN and pipeline tracking in one place
Free Portals
- Read published awards one by one
- Keep your own spreadsheet
- Check past awards
- Track competitions
- Buyer intelligence with previous contracts and suppliers
- PIN and pipeline tracking in one place
- Published award records and buyer history
- Competitor tracking and market insight
Free Portals
- Write it yourself or hire help
- Keep your own spreadsheet
- Read each notice yourself
- Search published notices one portal at a time
- Bid/no-bid review and bid writing, quoted separately
- PIN and pipeline tracking in one place
- Matches labelled Excellent, Good or Potential
- Search UK and Irish sources within your plan’s coverage
Choose a Plan for Your
Area and Team Size
Choose a plan by the regions you cover and the people who need
access.
Prices are in pounds sterling and exclude VAT. Yearly plans
save 25%.
What’s included, and what costs extra
Every plan includes full tender details, PDF downloads, saved searches and tender alerts. Tender document requests are a paid add-on, from £10 a month for five requests, . Bid services are quoted separately, and the fee applies whether or not you subscribe.
