At UK-wide cover these cost effectively the same, £79 against £80, so this is not a price argument. Supply2Gov filters by postcode area and category. BidSkim scores each notice against your business profile, writes the reason next to it, collapses duplicates across sources, and flags contracts coming up for renewal.
A low cost entry level alert service from BiP Solutions for micro businesses and sole traders, with regional filtering.
Price
£79 a month against £80 for UK-wide cover
On UK-wide cover the two are level, £79 against £80. Price is not the argument here. Supply2Gov matches on postcode and category, where BidSkim scores each notice against your business and adds renewal timing, buyer intelligence and comparable award benchmarks.
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.
Supply2Gov. Four tiers. Local Area free forever, Country £25 a month, UK £80 a month which they label most popular, and UK and Ireland £95 a month.
| Capability | Supply2Gov | BidSkim |
|---|---|---|
| UK-wide monthly cost | £80 | £79 |
| Matching method | Postcode area and category | Scored against your business profile |
| Scored match with a written reason | Yes, on every match | |
| Duplicates collapsed across portals | ||
| Renewal forecasting | Incumbent, value, contract timing, recurrence confidence | |
| Buyer intelligence | Spend, categories, top suppliers, contacts, how-to-win notes | |
| Price benchmarks from past awards | Price benchmarks from comparable awards, winners and bid counts | |
| Free tier | One local postcode area | All of Britain, every notice |
Checked 2026-08-18. Vendors change tiers often, so confirm before you buy.
You are already paying for Supply2Gov, since BidSkim costs less and adds scoring, renewals and buyer intelligence on top.
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.
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 costs less than the Supply2Gov paid tier at around £95, and replaces region and category keyword filtering with scoring against your actual business.
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 adds an entire layer Supply2Gov does not offer at any price, renewal radar, buyer profiles, competitor tracking and comparable award benchmarks.
| Focus | BidSkim | Supply2Gov |
|---|---|---|
| Market | Britain, and only Britain | UK, regional filtering |
| Built for | SMEs who want relevance, not volume | Micro businesses and sole traders on a single region |
The free plan does not send you anything.
It is a search tool, not an alert service. You can search every notice across the official sources in Britain and open the full detail on any of them without paying or entering a card, plus a twelve month look-back report showing what you already missed. What you pay for is the part that runs without you, daily scoring against your profile and the alert landing in your inbox. Searching is free because searching is not the hard problem. Remembering to search every morning is.
BidSkim does not let you filter by keyword alone.
Keyword filtering is why suppliers miss contracts. A notice titled Grounds Maintenance Framework does not contain the word landscaping, and a keyword filter never shows it to you. Scoring against your services catches the match the wording hides.
On UK-wide cover they are effectively level, £79 against £80. Supply2Gov's £95 tier adds Ireland, and its £25 tier covers selected regions only. The difference is what you get, BidSkim adds scoring with written reasons, renewal timing and buyer intelligence. BidSkim's free plan searches every notice across Britain, where the free Supply2Gov tier covers one local postcode area.
The two complaints that recur in its published reviews are alert relevance and automatic renewal of the subscription. Relevance is the problem BidSkim was built to solve.
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