Features
Everything a small supplier needs, and nothing it doesn't.
Bidwire reads every contract published on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, keeps the ones that fit your trade and area, and explains each one in plain English, including whether it suits a firm your size.
Free while we build it. No card, no sales call.
01Find the contracts that fit
Two sources, read daily, filtered down to you.
22 trades and 8 regional areas, worked out from each notice's own CPV codes rather than a keyword guess.
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Weekly digest
One email a week with the new contracts in your trades and region, each with a summary, the possible incumbent, what you'll need and who it suits. Nothing that doesn't match, and only when there's something to send.
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Two sources in one list
Notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, read daily and checked against each other so the same job isn't shown twice. Contracts Finder is where much of the smaller work is.
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22 trades, 8 regional areas
Categories built from each notice's CPV codes, and areas grouped by travel distance. Every area includes contracts open to suppliers anywhere in the UK.
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Saved searches and alerts
Up to 10 named searches per account, combining keywords, categories, region, a value range and small-firm friendly only. Switch email on and each adds its new matches to your weekly digest.
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Keyword search
Search every notice by keyword, buyer or place, with open notices first.
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Sort the way you think
Closing soonest, value high to low or low to high, newest or oldest, A to Z. Combine two, such as highest value then closing soonest, then narrow to open notices only, or to the ones marked small-firm friendly.
02Decide what's worth bidding for
A few lines, and you know whether to open the portal.
Summaries are written from the notice itself, small-firm fit is worked out from its figures, and anything inferred is labelled as inferred.
BCU-ITT-64408 - Holyhead CDS Dental Decontamination
- Closes
- 7 December 2026, 12 noon
- Possible incumbent
- MPH Construction Ltd won a similar decontamination project for this buyer in September 2026.
- You'll need
- Suitably qualified and experienced contractor
- Worth it if
- You'll want to look if you carry out refurbishment and fit-out work in healthcare settings, particularly around infection prevention and decontamination systems
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Plain-English summaries
What the buyer actually wants, in a couple of sentences, above the legal wording.
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Small-firm fit, with reasons
A small-firm friendly badge, or a plain list of what might rule a small firm out: contract size, a stated turnover requirement over £5 million, or a need for national coverage. Worked out from the notice's figures, not guessed.
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Value per lot
A large contract split into lots shows what each lot is worth, because that's the job you'd be bidding for.
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Requirements, only when stated
Accreditations and conditions are listed only where the notice itself states them. Nothing is inferred.
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Possible incumbent
Where the buyer's previous awards suggest who holds the work now, the notice says so, clearly labelled as inferred.
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Closing time, not just the date
Deadlines often fall at 12 noon, so every notice shows the time as well as the date wherever the notice gives one.
03Get ahead of the next tender
The work you can still shape, about a year out.
Renewals, rivals and buyer history: the things that decide a bid long before the notice appears.
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Renewal alerts
Contracts in your trades are flagged once, about a year before they end, while the buyer is still deciding what to ask for. Terminated and amended contracts are left out.
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Competitor watch
Follow up to 25 companies and see their new wins in your digest. Matched on the company, not the spelling of its name.
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A page for every buyer
What each council, trust and agency buys, how often, which companies won, and what's open right now.
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Dynamic markets open to join
Supplier lists you can apply to at any time, with no tender deadline to miss.
04Keep track
An account that stays out of your way.
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Save notices
Save an open notice with one click and find it in your account, soonest closing first.
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Star renewals
Star the running contracts you want to follow and filter to just those.
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No password
Sign in with a one-time link sent to your inbox.
05What Bidwire doesn't do
Better you know now.
Four limits. If one of them rules us out for you, it's better to find out here than after signing up.
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We don't fetch the tender documents.
Specifications and questions live on each buyer's portal, behind a registration. Every notice links to its source so you can get them.
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We don't tell you which accreditations you'll need unless the notice says.
We tested it: notices rarely state requirements in the published data, and guessing would tell you that you qualify when you might not.
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We don't write bids.
We help you decide which ones to write. The resources section covers how to write them well.
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We don't cover every portal.
Scotland's below-threshold notices are on Public Contracts Scotland, and Wales and Northern Ireland have their own portals for work published only there.
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