A low cost entry level alert service from BiP Solutions for micro businesses and sole traders, with regional filtering. If it is not the right fit for you, here are the UK options worth looking at, with what each one is genuinely better at. BidSkim is one of them, and it is not the right answer for every supplier on this page.
None of that makes Supply2Gov a bad product. Your budget is zero and you only need one local area, or you want alerts pushed to you without paying. BidSkim's free plan searches every notice in Britain but will not email you until you pay.
Ordered as a list, not a ranking. The right answer depends on your budget, your region and whether anyone at your company bids full time.
UK public sector market intelligence, built around buyer relationships and pipeline.
Pricing. Free tier, Basic from £75 a month, Growth from £475 a month for the Sales Studio product, and a quote-only Expert tier. Bid Studio and the B2G Growth Engine are separately priced products.
Suits you if. You want the cheapest paid entry point at £75, you need Northern Ireland or EU coverage, or you want the CRM and Slack integrations BidSkim does not offer.
UK public sector data and analytics, known for market sizing, supplier league tables and spend retrospectives.
Pricing. No price on tussell.com, but its G-Cloud 14 listing on the government Digital Marketplace states £11,400 a licence a year. Flat per licence, not per seat.
Suits you if. You are sizing a market, writing a board paper, or working named accounts and want the deepest published spend research in the category.
The long established UK and EU procurement platform from BiP Solutions, with a very large contract and award database.
Pricing. Not published. Tracker quotes per seat and shows no prices on its plans page. A genuine free search tier exists, separate from its 3 day trial. Coverage is selectable, UK and Republic of Ireland is standard on every tier, with Europe or Global as an upgrade.
Suits you if. You bid beyond Britain, or you need award history going back further than five years. Check which coverage tier you are quoted, UK and Republic of Ireland is the standard inclusion.
A UK supplier side platform with award and buyer intelligence across seven sector hubs, and the closest direct competitor to BidSkim on positioning and price.
Pricing. Published tiers at £99 and £249 a month.
Suits you if. You bid in Northern Ireland. TenderLedger reads eTenders NI alongside the four British sources, and that is the one gap BidSkim cannot close for you today.
A UK supplier platform covering the five official portals, with bid fit scoring and delivery into email, Slack or Microsoft Teams.
Pricing. Four published tiers. Essential £199 a month, Growth £599, Professional £1,199, plus custom enterprise pricing. Slack and Teams delivery, buyer intelligence and competitor tracking all start at Growth.
Suits you if. Your team lives in Slack or Teams, or you need CCS and NHS Supply Chain framework expiry coverage. Both are real and BidSkim does not match them.
A free and low cost UK alert service for small businesses, with plain English summaries of matched notices.
Pricing. Free Scout at £0 with no card, Standard at £19 a month, Pro at £49 a month. Covers four official sources.
Suits you if. You want alerts pushed to you without paying anything at all. BidSkim's free plan will let you search everything, but it will not send you a daily email until you subscribe.
A long established UK and international alert service, with notices reviewed and categorised by human researchers.
Pricing. A published from-price of £1,359 a year for the core alert subscription, roughly £113 a month. Anything beyond the entry tier is quoted. Unlimited team access at no extra cost.
Suits you if. You want a person to have read the notice before you do, and you bid internationally. Neither is something BidSkim does.
A soft facilities management specialist that scores tender packs for compliance fit and drafts Selection Questionnaire responses for you.
Pricing. A free tier, then a single published Pro plan at £99 a month.
Suits you if. You are a soft facilities management supplier and you want the tool to draft your questionnaire answers. That is real work off your desk and BidSkim will not do it for you.
A global tender aggregator monitoring 50 plus sources across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, with Slack delivery and notifications in 17 languages.
Pricing. Published in US dollars, from $49 a month with a $149 tier above it. Annual billing advertises a 35 percent saving without publishing the resulting figure.
Suits you if. You bid in more than one country. Jorpex names TED, SAM.gov, TenderNed, BOAMP, DTVP, CanadaBuys, GeBIZ, AusTender and Hilma among its sources, and no amount of British depth substitutes for a notice published in the Netherlands.
BidSkim is £79 a month, or £780 a year which works out at £65 a month, with the price on the website and no sales call. It scores every notice against your business profile and writes the reason next to the match, collapses duplicates across the official sources, and carries buyer profiles with spend, categories, top suppliers and contacts, price benchmarks from comparable awards across more than 800,000 notices, competitor win trends, and renewal timing with incumbent and contract dates. Planning stage notices surface work before it reaches tender.
It does not write bids, it does not have a permanently free tier, and it does not cover Northern Ireland.
You are already paying for Supply2Gov, since BidSkim costs less and adds scoring, renewals and buyer intelligence on top.
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