About BidSkim
BidSkim is a tender matching service that reads every new public sector notice in Britain each morning and sends UK suppliers without a bid team a scored shortlist of the contracts worth bidding for.
What BidSkim does
Daily tender shortlist
Each morning BidSkim reads every new notice from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales and scores it against your services, regions, contract size and certifications. Every match gets one of three verdicts (Recommended, Worth a look or In your market) with the evidence quoted from the notice.
Renewal radar
BidSkim tracks public contracts nearing expiry in your market, with the buyer, incumbent, value and contract dates. You see the work months before it returns to tender, while there is still time to get ready.
Buyer and competitor intelligence
Buyer profiles show spend, categories, open opportunities, top suppliers and contacts where public records provide them. Competitor tracking shows who wins work in your field and when their contracts come back to market.
Comparable awards
Similar past awards from 800,000+ notices show what comparable work went for, who won it and how many bids it drew. You get a price benchmark before you commit to a bid.
Free search and match report
Anyone can search every notice and open the full detail free, with no card. New accounts also get a 12-month report and a one-off scan with up to 3 suitable matches.
What makes BidSkim different
Published prices and monthly terms
Monitor is £79 a month and Predict £189 a month, both on the website, and monthly plans have no minimum term. You can start without a sales call or a quote.
Buyer intelligence for £189, not £475
Predict includes buyer profiles, competitor tracking and renewal radar at £189 a month. Stotles puts buyer intelligence on its Growth plan at £475 a month.
Scored against your services, not keywords
Each notice is judged against what you actually sell, and the reason it fits is written on the match. A keyword alert for landscaping never shows a notice called Grounds Maintenance Framework. BidSkim does.
Same-day matches
BidSkim collects new notices every morning and emails your matches the same day. Nobody sits between the notice and your inbox, which matters when a deadline is short.
No bid writing, so the scores stay honest
BidSkim finds, qualifies and researches opportunities, and the writing stays yours. It earns nothing from you bidding, so it has no reason to call a weak match strong.
Stotles price checked 18 August 2026.
Who uses BidSkim
- UK suppliers with fewer than 250 staff that bid for public contracts without a dedicated bid team
- Owners and directors who read tender portals themselves and bid a few times a year
- Cleaning, facilities and grounds maintenance firms bidding for council, school and NHS work
- Construction and trades contractors, from electrical and building services to repairs and maintenance
- Social care and healthcare providers
- IT, software and digital suppliers, including those selling through G-Cloud and other frameworks
- Consultancies, training providers and recruitment firms selling to the public sector
- Small commercial teams that want expiring contracts in view months before they are retendered
BidSkim is not built for large bid departments that need many seats, exports and single sign-on. The enterprise platforms serve them better.
The team behind BidSkim
Seamus White, founder
Seamus founded BidSkim because public money should be winnable by the businesses that run this country, not only the ones that can afford a bid division. He builds the product and writes BidSkim's research on UK public contracts.
How BidSkim started
Small suppliers were reading several portals at ten at night and still missing contracts that fitted them, while larger firms paid bid teams to run the same search. BidSkim Limited was incorporated in Leeds on 15 April 2026 to put that search within reach of a small firm's budget.
Who you deal with
BidSkim is run by Seamus. The person who answers your email is the person who builds the product, and he is the named account manager on every paid plan.
How BidSkim works
Getting started
Sign up with an email address and answer a few questions about your services, regions, contract size and certifications. It takes about two minutes, with no card and no sales call.
Your free report
Within minutes you get a 12-month report of contracts in your market and a one-off scan with up to 3 suitable matches. It shows whether public work in your trade is worth following before you pay anything.
Daily matches by email
On Monitor and Predict, BidSkim collects new notices every morning and emails your matches the same day. Each one links to the official notice, and you can save or pass on it in the app.
Your account manager
Every paid plan comes with Seamus as your named account manager. He sets up your profile, tunes your matches as your work changes and answers questions directly.
Support and response times
Email [email protected] or [email protected]. BidSkim aims to reply within one working day, in UK business hours.
Billing and changes
Monthly plans are paid by card at checkout, and annual plans by card or by bank transfer on invoice. You can change plan or cancel from Settings, and every first payment has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Key facts
- Company name
- BidSkim, operated by BidSkim Limited (BIDSKIM LTD)
- Type
- B2B software as a service for UK public tender matching and procurement intelligence
- Founded
- 2026. BidSkim Limited was incorporated on 15 April 2026.
- Founder
- Seamus White
- Headquarters
- Leeds, United Kingdom
- Company number
- 17160570, registered in England and Wales
- Website
- bidskim.com
- Core offering
- A daily shortlist of UK public sector tenders, scored against each supplier's services, regions, contract size and certifications, with the reason for every match
- Pricing
- Free: search every notice plus a one-off scored scan. Monitor: £79 a month or £780 a year. Predict: £189 a month or £1,860 a year.
- Contract terms
- Monthly or annual. No minimum term on monthly plans, cancel from Settings. 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment.
- Services
- Monitor: daily scored tender shortlist, tender briefs, framework and DPS flags. Predict: everything in Monitor plus renewal radar, buyer profiles, competitor tracking and comparable awards.
- Communication
- Email. Daily matches by email, support at [email protected], a named account manager on every paid plan, replies within one working day.
- Coverage
- Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales, reaching 653 buyer sites across 63 portals in England, Scotland and Wales
- Notices analysed
- 800,000+ UK public sector notices
- Award history
- Five years of UK public contract awards
- Built for
- UK SMEs with fewer than 250 staff that bid without a dedicated bid team
- Not covered
- EU and international notices, Northern Ireland's eTendersNI portal, and bid writing
- Social and profiles
- LinkedIn (Seamus White), Companies House, Crunchbase, Capterra, G2, SaaSHub, Wikidata
Facts checked . Portal coverage counted on 3 September 2026.
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