Tenders Direct scans over 500 sources daily and has a person read every notice before it reaches you. That is a real differentiator and BidSkim does not offer it. BidSkim watches five official British sources, scores each notice automatically against your profile, and costs £780 a year against their published £1,359.
A long established UK and international alert service, with notices reviewed and categorised by human researchers.
Price
£79 a month against £1,359 a year
Tenders Direct publishes a from-price of £1,359 a year, around £113 a month, and quotes anything above it. BidSkim is £780 a year on Monitor, every figure on the website, and you can start without a call.
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.
Tenders Direct. 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.
| Capability | Tenders Direct | BidSkim |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing on the website | From-price only, £1,359 a year | Yes, all plans |
| Sources scanned | 500 plus daily | Five official British sources |
| Scored match with a written reason | Human categorisation | Yes, on every match |
| Renewal forecasting | Advance re tender alerts | Incumbent, value, contract timing, recurrence confidence |
| Buyer intelligence | Limited | Spend, categories, top suppliers, contacts, how-to-win notes |
| Price benchmarks from past awards | Yes, Competitor Tracker, Premium tier | Price benchmarks from comparable awards, winners and bid counts |
| Human review of notices | No, automated | |
| International notices | No, Britain only |
Checked 2026-08-18. Vendors change tiers often, so confirm before you buy.
You want the notice the morning it publishes, with the reasoning and the award history attached, at a price on a website.
You want a person to have read the notice before you do, and you bid internationally. Neither is something BidSkim does.
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 is published, startable today, and delivers the morning a notice appears rather than after a researcher has categorised it.
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 renewal radar, buyer profiles, competitor tracking and comparable award benchmarks, all still on published pricing with no quote and no call.
| Focus | BidSkim | Tenders Direct |
|---|---|---|
| Market | Britain, and only Britain | UK and international |
| Built for | SMEs who want to start without a sales process | Organisations wanting human-reviewed, international coverage |
BidSkim covers Britain only, with no EU or international notices.
That is the whole point. Every scoring rule, CPV mapping, buyer record and renewal pattern is built for British public procurement and nothing else. A platform spanning thirty countries spreads the same effort across thirty procurement regimes, and the matching quality shows it. If you bid abroad you need a different tool. If you bid in Britain, you want the one that only does Britain.
BidSkim does not put a human researcher between the notice and your inbox.
Which is why you get it the morning it publishes. Human categorisation is genuinely valuable and genuinely slower, and on a contract with a short deadline the days matter more than the categorisation.
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.
Tenders Direct publishes a from-price of £1,359 a year for its core alert subscription, roughly £113 a month, and quotes bespoke packages. BidSkim is £79 a month, or £780 a year, with every figure published.
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