How matching works
You describe the work you want in a watch profile on the Opportunities page. Every new notice is checked against it, and only notices that pass every filter reach your inbox, ranked by a match score.
- Keywords: a notice needs at least one of them in its title, summary, buyer or sector. A keyword matches from the start of a word, so "road" finds "roads" and "roadworks" but not "broad". Leave keywords empty to receive every construction notice from your countries and sources.
- Exclusions: a notice containing any excluded word or phrase, such as "consultancy" or "supply of vehicles", is dropped.
- Countries and regions: they add together rather than narrow each other. Leave both empty, with multilateral notices switched off, and the feed covers everywhere.
- Multilateral notices: World Bank and UN notices usually name the project's country, so they reach you when that country is on your list. Switch on "Also watch multilateral notices" to add every listing from the multilateral sources, and any notice that names no country, wherever the work is. With no countries or regions chosen, those notices become your whole feed.
- Minimum value: notices that state a lower value are left out, and notices that state no value are kept. The figure is compared as written, without currency conversion, so set it with your main market's currency in mind.
- Sources: keep all sources on, or pick the ones you want. Picking narrows the curated list only; results from the nightly search of your countries still come through.
Keywords in the title score higher than keywords in a summary, and notices in your chosen countries, recent notices and closing dates with time left to price all rank higher. Closed notices stay hidden unless you switch on "Show closed".
Where the notices come from
Bidligence keeps a curated registry of public procurement sources: development banks and UN agencies, national e-procurement portals, public works agencies and a few newspaper pages. Some publish open data that Bidligence reads directly; others are web pages that Bidligence's AI reads for tender notices. Each source is re-read on its own schedule, from several times a day to once a day.
Items that Bidligence's AI reads from web pages are checked before they reach an inbox. An item from a portal or agency page needs a real tender reference or a closing date, an item from a newspaper page needs both plus a notice page of its own, and items that read as news rather than notices are skipped. The feed is filtered for construction-related work: civil works, buildings, roads and bridges, water and drainage, energy plant and similar.
The list below is generated live from that registry and Bidligence's own run records: it shows the sources that returned tender notices in the last 30 days. A source that stops returning notices drops off the list until it recovers, and sources switched off for the reasons under coverage below are not listed.
Sources that returned tender notices to Bidligence in the last 30 days. The list updates itself.
- World Bank — Procurement Notices
- UK — Contracts Finder (OCDS)United Kingdom
- UNDP — Procurement Notices
- TED — EU Tenders Electronic Daily (CPV 45)
- UNGM — UN Global Marketplace
- SAM.gov — US federal (NAICS 236/237/238)United States
- UK — Find a Tender (OCDS)United Kingdom
- Canada — CanadaBuys open tender noticesCanada
- Brazil — PNCP (concorrências)Brazil
- Australia — AusTender (open ATMs)Australia
- New Zealand — GETSNew Zealand
- Kenya — Public Procurement Information PortalKenya
- Uganda — eGP portalUganda
- Colombia — SECOP II (datos.gov.co)Colombia
- Australia — Transport for NSW eTenderingAustralia
- Vanuatu — Central Tenders BoardVanuatu
- India — Tenders (Times of India / classifieds)India
A nightly web search for the countries you watch
Many publishers have no feed and no stable listing page. So in the early hours of each watched country's local night, Bidligence runs an AI web search for open construction tenders there, told to look at the country's own e-procurement portal and ministry pages, UNGM, World Bank notices, Asian Development Bank tender pages and similar listings.
A notice is kept only when the page it cites is one the search actually returned and it carries a tender reference and a closing date (or one of the two, on a recognised procurement notice page such as a UNGM or World Bank notice), so a news story that only quotes a closing date does not get through. If a curated source later lists the same tender, Bidligence matches the two by reference or notice page and your inbox keeps one copy.
Every country searched costs Bidligence a paid AI search each night, so the search runs only for countries that workspaces actually watch, and each workspace adds a limited number of its countries to it. Results are matched to your profile like any other notice and arrive in your next digest. The search can cover the 66 countries below.
- Argentina
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- France
- Germany
- Ghana
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kuwait
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Zambia
Add your own tender pages and RSS feeds
If a ministry, utility, council or newspaper publishes tenders on a public page that is not in the list, add it from the Sources panel on the Opportunities page: a name, the address of the tender listing or RSS/Atom feed, and optionally a country.
Bidligence fetches it straight away, tells you how many notices it found on the first pass, and re-reads it daily. Notices from a source you added go to your workspace only, and your country settings never filter them out.
An RSS or Atom feed is read directly, without AI, and uses no credits. A web page is read by AI, so reading it draws on your workspace's credits.
A page that builds its tender list with JavaScript, or shows it only after sign-in, gives Bidligence nothing to read. A quick test: if the tender titles are missing when you view the page's source in your browser, or appear only after you sign in, Bidligence will not see them either.
A daily or weekly digest, at your hour
In the watch profile, choose a daily or weekly e-mail digest, or switch it off. The send hour and time zone are set once for the workspace in Settings, and a new workspace starts with a morning send in its own time zone or its region's. Bidligence checks every two hours, so the digest leaves within two hours after the hour you choose.
Each digest lists the best new matches since the last one, with the buyer, country, closing date, source and match score. Every member of the workspace can receive it, and each person can turn their own copy off in their profile settings, which the link at the foot of every digest opens. Between digests, save notices in the inbox, dismiss the ones you will not bid, and filter by country, source or text.
From alert to bid in one click
Start bid on a notice creates a bid with the project name, client, closing date, currency, country and any stated value filled in, and saves the link to the original notice in the bid's notes. The notice moves to the Started tab, so the team can see it has been picked up.
Bidligence does not download tender documents for you: get the pack from the publisher, which often means registering on its portal, and upload it to the bid. AI tender analysis then reads the whole pack, the Bid Score helps you decide whether to bid, and the Submission Guard checks the package before you submit.
Analysis and the Bid Score run on credits. A new account receives 500 welcome credits once its e-mail address is confirmed.
What tender alerts cannot catch
No alert service sees every tender, and Bidligence is no exception. Know the gaps before you rely on it.
- Publishers that block automated reading. Some development banks and national portals refuse automated requests, and others draw their tender list with JavaScript. Bidligence does not read those sites directly and records the reason; their notices reach you only if the nightly search or another source finds them.
- Notices printed in newspapers. In some markets, Papua New Guinea among them, tender notices appear in the printed newspaper while the newspaper's website carries news stories about tenders rather than the notices themselves. Bidligence does not read print. The Papua New Guinea tenders page covers where to look.
- Sources that fail for a while. A portal that changes its layout or goes offline returns nothing until it is fixed. The Sources panel shows how many sources returned notices on their last run, and the last error for each.
- Addenda and clarifications. These usually go to registered bidders on the publisher's portal rather than being advertised again. Register for every tender you pursue, and upload and review each addendum in the bid in Bidligence so the analysis, the deadline and the checklist follow it.
Treat Bidligence's feed as a wide net, not the official record. The closing date, documents and rules that count are the ones in the tender itself, on the publisher's site.
What it costs
The opportunity feed, the watch profile and the digest are included in a free workspace. Within the alerts, credits are used only when Bidligence reads a web page you added yourself.
Analysing a tender, the Bid Score and the priced BOQ run on credits, and generating the bid documents needs a Starter or Pro plan: Starter is US$399 a month and Pro US$799, each with a 3-day free trial, one per customer. A payment method is taken at checkout and nothing is charged until the trial ends. See pricing.
Questions
- Are Bidligence's tender alerts free?
- Yes. The opportunity feed, the watch profile and the e-mail digest are part of a free workspace. Within the alerts, credits are used only when Bidligence reads a web page you added yourself.
- Which tender portals does Bidligence monitor?
- The sources list on this page is generated from Bidligence's registry and shows every source it is set to read today. Each night it also searches the web for open construction tenders in the countries its customers watch, and you can add any public tender page or RSS feed yourself.
- Do the alerts include World Bank and other development-bank tenders?
- Yes, from the multilateral sources in the list and from the nightly search. Some banks block automated reading, so their notices arrive only when another source or the search finds them; the development-bank tenders page explains which.
- How quickly will I hear about a new tender?
- Sources are re-read between several times a day and once a day, and the nightly search runs once a night for each watched country. New matches appear in your inbox as soon as they are found, and the digest goes out daily or weekly after the hour you choose.
- Can I watch a portal that Bidligence does not list?
- Yes. Add its tender page or RSS feed in the Sources panel and Bidligence reads it daily for your workspace only. Pages that need a sign-in or build their list with JavaScript cannot be read.
- Does it cover tenders in my country?
- Check the two lists on this page: the sources Bidligence reads and the countries the nightly search covers. If your country is in neither, add your national portal's tender page or feed yourself.