The tier you need decides this. PSIP's £199 Essential plan is a daily email digest with six saved alerts and basic buyer spend. Buyer intelligence, competitor tracking and Slack delivery begin at £599. BidSkim carries all three on Predict at £189, so the honest comparison is £189 against £599 rather than £79 against £199.
A UK supplier platform covering the five official portals, with bid fit scoring and delivery into email, Slack or Microsoft Teams.
Price
£189 a month against £599 for the same capabilities
PSIP's entry plan at £199 does not include buyer intelligence, competitor tracking or Slack delivery. Those start on Growth at £599. Against BidSkim Predict at £189 that is £410 a month, or £4,920 a year, for a comparable feature set. On the entry tiers alone it is £79 against £199.
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.
PSIP. 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.
| Capability | PSIP | BidSkim |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price a month | £199 | £79 |
| Price for buyer intelligence | £599, Growth tier | £189, Predict |
| Official UK portals covered | Five | Five |
| Scored match with a written reason | Yes, 1 to 10 with explanation | Yes, on every match |
| Competitor tracking | Yes, from £599 | Competitor win trends and renewal exposure |
| Buyer intelligence | Yes, from £599 | Spend, categories, top suppliers, contacts, how-to-win notes |
| Saved alerts on entry plan | Six | Unlimited |
| Data history on entry plan | Six months | Five years |
| Renewal forecasting | Yes, 56,000 plus contracts | Incumbent, value, contract timing, recurrence confidence |
| Slack and Teams delivery | Yes, from £599 | No, email only |
Checked 2026-08-18. Vendors change tiers often, so confirm before you buy.
You want buyer intelligence and competitor tracking without paying £599 a month for the tier that unlocks them.
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.
Worth knowing
BidSkim sells two plans and the comparison changes depending on which one you mean.
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 Essential at £199 covers the same five official portals for £120 a month less. Both explain their scores, so that is parity rather than a difference.
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 undercuts even PSIP's entry plan, and PSIP gates buyer intelligence and competitor tracking behind Growth at £599, so this is the comparison that matters.
| Focus | BidSkim | PSIP |
|---|---|---|
| Market | Britain, and only Britain | UK, five official portals, tiered £199 to £1,199 |
| Built for | SMEs reading a daily brief | Teams working in Slack or Microsoft Teams |
BidSkim delivers by email, with no Slack or Teams integration.
One considered brief in the morning, rather than notifications arriving through the day in a channel where they scroll past. If your team genuinely lives in Slack that is a real advantage for PSIP, and worth the £120 a month to you.
It depends which PSIP tier you need. Against Essential at £199 a month, BidSkim Monitor is £79, so £120 a month less. But Essential has no buyer intelligence, no competitor tracking and no Slack delivery. Those begin on Growth at £599 a month, and BidSkim Predict carries all of them at £189, which is £410 a month or £4,920 a year less.
Yes. PSIP scores each tender 1 to 10 against your profile and shows a written explanation for the score, on every plan. BidSkim does the same. This is a point of parity between the two, not a difference.
No. BidSkim delivers by email. If Slack or Teams delivery is a hard requirement, PSIP does that, though it requires the £599 Growth plan rather than the £199 entry tier.
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