Seamus White
I built BidSkim because public money should be winnable by the businesses that actually run this country, not just the ones that can afford a bid division.
Why I built this
Finding public contracts takes time: checking several portals, reading requirements and deciding which opportunities are worth a bid. I built BidSkim to make that work more manageable for small businesses without dedicated bidding teams.
The cleaning firm in Bolton, the electrical contractor in Cardiff, the care provider in Fife does not. They have a founder reading tender portals at ten at night, deciding whether to sacrifice a weekend to a bid they cannot price the odds on. Those are the businesses that keep schools clean, roads lit and people cared for, and the system quietly prices them out with process rather than merit.
BidSkim collects published notices from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales, collapses the duplicates, works out when existing contracts come back to market, and scores everything against what a supplier actually sells. The big firms buy that capability with headcount. I wanted it to cost less than a tank of diesel.
The standard for the data
A useful number needs a definition, a date and a source that someone else can check.
Our research states which notices were counted, the cutoff date and the rules used to include a contract. Published contract values can include estimates and options; they are not evidence of payments. Missing supplier information remains unknown, and uncertainty in the source record is part of the result.
The AI procurement report includes source links, classification decisions and a script that reproduces its figures from the CSV. It also discloses the use of AI in classification and the limits of the review. I publish the research as BidSkim’s founder, with an interest in the service becoming a useful source of procurement data.
Read the research and methodsWho it is for
Teams without a bid division. Which is most teams.
If your company has a capture team, you do not need me. BidSkim is for the firms where bidding costs the owner evenings and weekends: the ones who find the right tender too late, or never hear about the contract that fitted them perfectly because it renewed quietly with the incumbent. The product exists to hand that time back, and to put the same early-warning machinery the giants run into the hands of the businesses that make this country run.
How to correct me
If a number on this site is wrong, I would rather know. Every data page publishes its method and its limits, which makes it possible to check. Email [email protected] with the page and the figure and I will either fix it or explain where it came from.
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