Tender Discovery

Preview feature

Tender Discovery is currently in preview. Enable it from the platform settings if you have admin access.

Tender Discovery lets you search live UK public sector procurement portals from within Tendrex. Browse opportunities, filter by category and region, bookmark interesting tenders, and import them directly into your portfolio — no copy-pasting from portal websites.

Data sources

Tendrex aggregates tenders from four UK procurement feeds, all using the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS):

Source	Coverage
Contracts Finder	England — central and local government
Find a Tender	UK-wide — above-threshold contracts (replaces OJEU)
Public Contracts Scotland	Scotland — all public sector
Sell2Wales	Wales — all public sector

Data is refreshed automatically on a configurable schedule.

Searching for tenders

1. Navigate to Discover in the sidebar.
2. Use the search bar to find tenders by keyword.
3. Apply filters to narrow results:
   • Category — works, services, supplies, consultancy
   • Value range — minimum and maximum contract value
   • Region — filter by geographic area
   • Buyer — search by issuing organisation
   • Status — open, closed, awarded
   • SME-friendly — show only tenders flagged as suitable for SMEs
   • Deadline — filter by submission deadline

Results show the tender title, buyer, estimated value, deadline, and source portal.

Viewing tender details

Click a tender to see full details including:

• Description and scope of work
• Buyer information and contact details
• Procurement method and procedure type
• Key dates — publication, deadline, award
• Associated documents — Tendrex can fetch and display documents from the source portal
• Lot structure if the tender is split into lots

Importing a tender

When you find an opportunity you want to bid on:

1. Click Import to Portfolio on the tender detail view.
2. Optionally override fields like name, deadline, or organisation before importing.
3. The tender is created in your Tendrex portfolio with metadata pre-populated from the discovery data.
4. From there, follow the normal workflow — upload questions, generate answers, review, and submit.

Tip

Importing a tender saves you the manual data entry of setting up tender metadata. The buyer details, deadline, reference number, and description are all carried across.

Bookmarking

Bookmark tenders you want to come back to later. Bookmarked tenders appear in a dedicated section for quick access — useful when your team is evaluating multiple opportunities before making bid/no-bid decisions.

Document scraping

For some tenders, Tendrex can fetch associated documents directly from the source portal. Click Fetch Documents on a discovered tender to pull available files. These can then be uploaded to your knowledge base if you decide to bid.

Configuration

Admins can configure discovery settings from the platform settings:

• Fetch window — how many days back to search (7–90 days)
• Pages per source — how many pages of results to fetch from each portal (5–50)
• Enable/disable — toggle the discovery feature on or off via feature flags