Compare, updated 2026-08-18

BidSkim vs CleanTender

These two disagree about what a tender tool should do. CleanTender will draft your Selection Questionnaire answers. BidSkim will not write anything you submit, and that is the whole design. What BidSkim spends its effort on instead is the research around the decision, renewal timing, buyer history, comparable awards and who currently holds the work.

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Side by side

Two different ideas of what a tender tool is for

A soft facilities management specialist that scores tender packs for compliance fit and drafts Selection Questionnaire responses for you.

Price

£79 a month against £99

£20 a month less, £240 a year, and BidSkim's free plan searches every notice across Britain rather than only those above your threshold.

BidSkim is £79 a month, or £780 a year which works out at £65 a month. The intelligence plan is £189 a month, or £1,860 a year which works out at £155 a month.

CleanTender. A free tier, then a single published Pro plan at £99 a month.

Feature comparison between BidSkim and CleanTender, verified 2026-08-18
Capability	CleanTender	BidSkim
Entry price a month	£99	£79
Free plan		Yes, search every notice
Drafts your bid responses		No, by design
Scores the full contract pack		Scores the notice
Alerts below your value threshold	Filtered out	Included
Renewal forecasting	Not documented	Incumbent, value, contract timing, recurrence confidence
Buyer intelligence	Not documented	Spend, categories, top suppliers, contacts, how-to-win notes
Comparable awards	Not documented	Price benchmarks from comparable awards, winners and bid counts
Competitor tracking	Not documented	Competitor win trends and renewal exposure
Sector coverage	Soft facilities management	Every sector

Checked 2026-08-18. Vendors change tiers often, so confirm before you buy.

Where each one wins

Drafting the bid, or deciding whether to write it

Choose BidSkim

You want to know whether a bid is worth writing before you write it, and you would rather the scoring came from something that earns nothing either way.

Renewal and expiry timing, which CleanTender does not document at all
Buyer profiles with spend, categories, top suppliers and contacts
Comparable awards for price benchmarks, winners and bid counts
Competitor tracking and renewal exposure across five years of awards
Every sector, not a single vertical
£20 a month less, and free to search every notice regardless of value

Choose CleanTender

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.

Generates Selection Questionnaire responses, which BidSkim deliberately will not do
A compliance evaluator that scores the contract pack itself, not just the notice
Genuinely strong soft facilities management vocabulary
A free tier alongside the paid plan

Worth knowing

Built around one vertical, so the fit falls away outside soft facilities management
Alerts are limited to tenders above your threshold, so smaller work is filtered out before you see it
No renewal signals, buyer profiles, competitor tracking, comparable awards or award history documented anywhere on the site, checked 18 August 2026

Which plan

What each plan does that CleanTender does not

BidSkim sells two plans and the comparison changes depending on which one you mean.

Monitor, £79 a month

Tells you which live tenders deserve attention.

£79 a month, or £780 a year which works out at £65 a month

Monitor at £79 against £99 does the finding and qualifying, and unlike CleanTender it does not filter out work below your stated value threshold.

Every new notice across the official sources in Britain, checked daily
Each one scored against your services, regions, contract size and certifications
The fit reason written next to every match
Duplicates collapsed, so the same contract does not arrive four times
Tender briefs with buyer, value, dates, lots, CPV, stage and requirements
Frameworks and DPS routes flagged where the public data supports it
Profile rescans when your services, regions or bid appetite change

Predict, £189 a month

Helps you plan before the tender goes live.

£189 a month, or £1,860 a year which works out at £155 a month

Predict at £189 is where the two diverge completely. CleanTender puts its effort into drafting your answers. Predict puts it into renewal timing, buyer history and comparable awards, so you know whether the answer is worth drafting.

Everything in Monitor
Renewal radar, expiring incumbent contracts with buyer, incumbent, value and contract timing
Buyer profiles, spend, categories, open opportunities, top suppliers and annual trends
Buyer contacts where public notices or research provide them
Requirement and how-to-win notes for researched buyers
Supplier intelligence, who wins public work, where, and how their awards trend
Competitor tracking with renewal exposure, so you see their contracts coming back to market
Comparable awards for price benchmarks, winners and bid counts
Planning stage notices, work visible before it reaches tender

Built for different people

One vertical or every trade

Focus	BidSkim	CleanTender
Market	Britain, every sector	UK, soft facilities management
Built for	SMEs in any trade deciding what to bid on	Soft FM suppliers who want the questionnaire drafted

What BidSkim leaves out, and why

BidSkim does not write bids.

Deliberate, and it is what keeps the scoring honest. A tool that sells you bid writing has a reason to tell you a weak match is strong. BidSkim earns nothing from you bidding, so a low score costs it nothing to give.

BidSkim does not score the full contract pack, only the notice.

CleanTender opens the documents and rates compliance fit, which is genuinely useful once you have decided to bid. BidSkim works one step earlier, on whether the contract is worth opening at all, using renewal timing, buyer history and what comparable work sold for. Different stage of the same decision.

Questions

Common questions about this comparison

Does BidSkim write bid responses like CleanTender?

No, and it will not. CleanTender generates Selection Questionnaire answers. BidSkim stops at the research, finding the work, scoring the fit and giving you the buyer and award context. A tool that sells you bid writing has a reason to call a weak match strong, and BidSkim earns nothing from you bidding.

Is CleanTender only for cleaning and facilities companies?

It is built for soft facilities management and its vocabulary reflects that, which is an advantage inside the vertical and a limitation outside it. BidSkim scores against the profile you describe, so it does not depend on your trade having been pre built.

Which is cheaper?

BidSkim, at £79 a month against £99, or £240 a year. Both have a free plan. BidSkim's free plan searches every notice in Britain, where CleanTender's alerts only cover tenders above your stated threshold.