AI-powered tender intelligence for North East SMEs
Bid Sense finds the tenders that fit your business, reads the documents for you and tells you whether each one is worth bidding on — before you spend days writing.
Analysed for you
North East Local Authority
Strengths
Relevant regional experience
Suitable contract size
One action before you bid
Environmental policy needs stronger evidence
Built for the North EastStarting with NEPO
The problem
The opportunity may be right for your business, but working that out can mean searching portals, downloading documents and reading hundreds of pages before you know whether you are eligible.
Procurement portals contain thousands of notices, many of which are irrelevant to your business.
Requirements, evaluation criteria and deadlines are often spread across several complex files.
A contract may look attractive until a mandatory requirement or scoring weakness makes it unrealistic.
Small teams can lose days writing a submission without knowing whether they have included the evidence buyers expect.
How it works
Build a company profile using your website, services, experience, accreditations, policies and case studies.
Bid Sense identifies opportunities that match your services, location, experience and typical contract size.
Each opportunity is checked for eligibility, suitability, readiness and data confidence.
Open a structured workspace, understand every question and use your existing company evidence to prepare first-draft responses.
What Bid Sense does
01 — Find
Stop trawling procurement portals. Bid Sense matches live opportunities against your services, location, experience and typical contract size — and filters out the noise.
Grounds Maintenance Framework — Lot 2
Newcastle
School Cleaning Services
Durham
Minor Building Works DPS
Sunderland
Fleet Servicing & MOT
Gateshead
02 — Decide
The decision engine scores every opportunity for eligibility, suitability, readiness and competitiveness — so you know whether it deserves your time before the expensive part of tendering begins.
Our recommendation
Worth your time
All mandatory requirements met
Strong match to your services
One document to update
Typical field of 5–8 bidders
03 — Win
Turn the tender into a structured workspace. Understand what each question is really asking, see what evidence buyers expect and start from editable first drafts built on your own approved information.
Bid workspace — 14 questions
Due in 9 daysFirst draft from your evidence
“Over the past five years we have delivered grounds maintenance for three local authorities, including a £900k contract for…”
The decision engine
Bid Sense turns company information and tender documents into structured profiles. The decision engine then applies clear rules to assess the opportunity.
AI reads and organises the information. Bid Sense makes and explains the recommendation.
Do you meet every mandatory requirement?
How closely does the opportunity match your services, experience and delivery profile?
Do you have the evidence and documents needed to submit a strong bid now?
Are there factors that may make the opportunity difficult to win?
Is there enough reliable information to support the recommendation?
Recommendations support business decisions and do not guarantee contract awards.
The product
Every recommendation shows the suitability, eligibility, readiness and confidence behind it — so you always know why, not just what.
North East Procurement Organisation member authority
Eligibility
Met
Readiness
82%
Data confidence
High
Recommendation summary
Strong match with your grounds and estates experience. Contract size sits within your typical delivery range. One action needed before submission.
Strengths
Actions
Bid Workspaces
Procurement readiness
72%
The difference
Bid Sense helps you make a better decision before the expensive part of tendering begins.
And more
Regional focus
Bid Sense is being developed around the real experience of North East suppliers using NEPO procurement systems. That focus lets us solve a specific problem properly before supporting more portals and regions.
Planned expansion includes wider UK tender sources and procurement portals.
Always improving
Bid Sense does not only assess individual contracts. It shows where your business can improve its general procurement readiness.
Pricing
£99per month
Extra Bid Workspaces: £25 each
A workspace covers the complete preparation of one tender. There are no customer-facing AI token charges.
Insights
Featured guide · NEPO
A plain-English introduction to NEPO for North East businesses: what it is, how it publishes opportunities and how SMEs can start finding suitable contracts.
4 min read
Tender strategy
The recurring, avoidable reasons SMEs lose public sector tenders — from compliance failures to generic answers — and what to do about each one.
7 July 2026 · 4 min read
Bid writing
How UK evaluators actually mark tender responses: weightings, scoring scales, moderation — and what it means for how SMEs should write.
30 June 2026 · 4 min read
Social value
A plain-English explanation of social value in UK public procurement, what buyers score, and how SMEs can build credible social value answers.
23 June 2026 · 3 min read
FAQ
Bid Sense is a platform that helps SMEs find suitable public sector opportunities, understand tender requirements and decide whether a contract is worth pursuing.
No. Bid Sense helps businesses work with opportunities published through procurement portals. It presents the information more clearly and supports the decision and bid preparation process.
Bid Sense can prepare first drafts and improve answers using approved company information, but the business remains responsible for reviewing and submitting its response.
No platform can guarantee that. Bid Sense assesses eligibility, suitability, readiness and available evidence to help you make a better bid/no-bid decision.
The first version is focused on North East suppliers and NEPO opportunities. The platform is designed to support more portals over time.
No. The product is designed to explain the process and tender questions in plain English.
Your website and basic company information are enough to begin. Policies, accreditations, case studies and previous responses improve the depth of the analysis.
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