There is no single front door to UK public sector procurement. Public Contracts Scotland, Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Sell2Wales: each portal has its own search, its own alerts and its own quirks.
For a buyer publishing a notice, that is fine. For a supplier trying to win work, it is death by a thousand browser tabs. Miss the right portal on the right day and you simply never see the contract.
The Procurement Act has started to pull some of this together behind a central digital platform, and that is genuinely good news. But the reality on the ground is still fragmented, and it will be for a while yet.
We started TenderWatch on a simple bet: most suppliers do not need more data, they need less noise. One watch, the sectors and keywords you care about, and a single email on your schedule.
Artificial intelligence gets a lot of airtime in this space. We use it where it earns its keep, normalising messy notices and matching them to the sectors you watch, but we keep it firmly in the background. You do not care about the plumbing. You care about not missing the contract.
The measure of success here is refreshingly boring. You open one email, see the two or three notices that actually matter, and get on with your day.
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