Bidmark

New tender search

Find tenders and RFPs that fit your work

Tell us what your team builds and who you would work for. We look through the federal tenders we already hold, then go and search the web for open requests that match, from governments and from everybody else who publishes one.

What do you build?

Select all services that apply. The words under each one are what we search for.

Required
Something else you build

Not in the list? Add it and we search for those words the same way we search for the ones above.

Three characters or more. Anything shorter matches half the internet, so we would be wasting a search on it.

Who do you want to work for?

Pick as many as you like. Each one gets its own set of searches.

Required

Government

Published on bid portals and, for federal work, on SAM.gov.

Everyone else

Companies, charities and hospitals put work out to tender too. They publish it on their own sites rather than on a bid portal, so this is web search only, with no federal records behind it.

Where

Most web tenders come from cities, counties and states. In the latest federal data, 1 notice out of 84,226 was website work. Every run makes the same number of web searches, so picking more kinds of buyer spreads them wider rather than digging deeper into each.

Check it over

This is what we are about to go looking for. Everything below is optional.

Services
Buyers
Where
Fine-tune what ranks higher
Certifications you hold

Agencies often reserve a tender for businesses in one of these programmes. Tick the ones you are registered in and those tenders rank higher, because you can actually win them. They apply to government buyers only.

Ticking a certification only adds results. Leaving them blank hides nothing.

Pick what you build to get started.

Usually takes less than 2 minutes.

How it works

1

You say what you build

Pick your services and the kinds of buyer you sell to, from federal agencies to private companies. There is no account to make and nothing to set up first.

2

We look through the federal tenders we already hold

That part is instant. We read what each notice actually says rather than trusting the code it was filed under, which is why a truck purchase filed under an IT code does not reach you.

3

Then we go and search the web for the rest

City, county and state tenders are not published anywhere central, and neither is anything a company or a charity puts out to tender. So we have to go looking. That takes about a minute, and it is where most of this work actually is.

4

Then we open every page we found

We read each one and look for the closing date in the buyer's own words. Anything that has already closed, or whose page has gone, is put out of your way with a count and one click to see it. Where a page will not let us in or gives no date at all, we say that instead of guessing.

5

Nothing unchecked is dressed up as a fact

Anything from an official record is green, and you can click through to see exactly where each value came from. A closing date we read off the buyer's own page is quoted with the sentence it came from. Anything else a web search turned up stays amber, in the words the listing used, rather than becoming a tidy date.