From signup to your first matched tenders in about two minutes.
Search every live UK and Irish tender, free. Pro does the hard work for you and emails them every morning. We watch the national portals and 600+ buyer portals so you don't have to. Here is exactly what happens when you join.
Tell us what you do (about a minute)
Pick one or more of 17 plain-English sectors, such as construction, IT and software, healthcare, facilities, social care or marketing. No CPV codes and no procurement jargon: we map your sectors to the right procurement categories for you. If you do more than one thing, pick more than one. Your company name is optional.
Create your first search
Add the keywords that describe your work, in the words a buyer would put in a tender title, such as "grounds maintenance", "payroll software" or "roof repairs". We suggest real examples for your sector and show you how many live tenders your search matches right now, so you can tell straight away whether it is too broad or too narrow. Add a region if you like: any of the 12 UK nations and regions, plus Ireland and the EU.
See your matches straight away
As soon as you finish, we run your search against every live tender we hold from the last 90 days and put the results on your dashboard, so you start with real tenders rather than an empty screen. From then on, new tenders are matched against your searches every hour as they arrive.
Get new matches by email
Pro and Business send every new match daily, by 9am UK time. Free accounts get a count on Tuesday mornings of how many new tenders their saved searches found, without the tenders themselves. Each match in a Pro email shows the tender title, the buyer, the value where the notice gives one and the deadline, with anything closing in the next three days highlighted. Choose Daily, Weekly or Off from your profile at any time.
Refine as you go
On your profile, choose the buyer types you sell to: councils, NHS, central government, housing associations, universities, schools and colleges, police, fire and emergency services, utilities and infrastructure, or other public bodies. Leave it blank to see them all. You can also follow a specific buyer to hear about everything it publishes. On Free, saved searches keep counting new tenders; Pro and Business get the results and unlimited saved searches.
What happens behind the scenes
Most tender alert services read the national portals. We read those too, then go further: we watch 600+ buyer portals across the UK and Ireland, checking the busiest sources several times a day and the rest every day, so you don't have to.
That wider net matters. Around one in four live tenders is not on the national portals at all. It sits on a council's, NHS trust's, university's or housing association's own buying portal, where you would only see it if you knew to look and had registered there. We flag these as hard to find, so you can see at a glance what a national-portal search would have missed.
Then we tidy up. The same tender often appears on more than one portal, so we remove duplicates as notices arrive and again through the day. We file each notice under a plain-English sector, and we keep checking live tenders so that closed, cancelled and awarded notices drop out of your matches.
Matching is driven by your keywords. A tender matches when one of your keywords appears as a whole word or phrase in its title or description, so "ux" will not match "luxury". Your buyer-type choice then narrows the results. On Pro and Business, each match on your dashboard also gets an AI relevance score with a sentence explaining it, so the best fits rise to the top.
Here is what you would receive
A sample TenderSignal email. Yours will list the matches for your own searches.
Example email. Yours lists the matches for your own searches.
Sarah, 4 new tenders matched.
Picked from your saved searches since you last looked.
NHS digital transformation
Local authority comms
tendersignal.co.uk · Manage preferences · Unsubscribe
Common questions
How does the matching work?
Your alerts match on keywords: a tender matches when one of your keywords appears as a whole word or phrase in its title or description, narrowed by the buyer types you choose. The sharper your keywords, the better your matches. Describe what you deliver ("roof repairs", "payroll software") rather than how buyers buy it ("framework", "tender"), because those words appear in almost every notice.
What if I get too many tenders?
Make your keywords more specific, split one broad search into a few focused ones, or narrow the buyer types on your profile. If a search with several keywords is catching hundreds of tenders, we may suggest how to split it.
What if I get too few?
Add synonyms and neighbouring services, widen your buyer types, or follow the buyers you most want to work with. Public procurement is also seasonal: far fewer tenders are published at weekends, on bank holidays and in August, so a quiet week is normal.
Can I search for tenders I have missed?
Yes. Browse lets you search every live tender we hold by keyword and filter by sector, buyer type, region and closing date, including the hard-to-find ones. Browse is free on every plan.
Which countries do you cover?
All of the UK, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus the Republic of Ireland. EU tenders from TED are included too, and you can switch them off on your profile if you only bid at home.
What does Free include, and what does Pro add?
Free lets you browse and discover: search and filter every live tender, open every tender page, and keep your saved searches counting, with a weekly email of how many new tenders they found. Pro does it for you. It is £39 a month + VAT and adds every match delivered daily, unlimited saved searches, AI relevance with the reasoning, portal links and buyer contacts on the hard-to-find tenders, tender tracking with reminders, My bids to manage every bid, contracts coming up for renewal in your sectors, and alerts in Slack, Teams or by webhook. Business, from £99 a month + VAT, is for teams: shared seats and notes, pipeline and competitor intelligence and CSV export.
Do I need a credit card to start?
No. You sign up with just an email address. There is no card to add unless you choose to pay for Pro, which you do from your billing page whenever you are ready.
Do you have a mobile app?
No. The web app works on any phone, and the email alerts are designed to read well on mobile.