Tussell is the deeper research product and it does more than a spend database, including renewal tracking and pre tender signals through its Early Opportunities add-on. Those update monthly and are not scored. BidSkim delivers a daily shortlist scored against your profile, at a fifteenth of the G-Cloud licence price.
UK public sector data and analytics, known for market sizing, supplier league tables and spend retrospectives.
Price
£780 a year against £11,400 a licence
Tussell publishes nothing on its own site, but its G-Cloud framework listing puts a licence at £11,400 a year. BidSkim is £780 a year on Monitor, or £1,860 on Predict, with every figure on the website.
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.
Tussell. 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.
| Capability | Tussell | BidSkim |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | £11,400 a licence a year, via G-Cloud | £780 to £1,860 a year |
| Priced on its own website | Yes, all plans | |
| Daily scored alerts | Monthly signals, not scored | Yes, with written reasons |
| Renewal visibility | Yes, 6, 12 and 24 month windows | Incumbent, value, contract timing, recurrence confidence |
| Pre tender visibility | Yes, paid Early Opportunities add-on | Planning stage notices, before tender |
| Price benchmarks from past awards | Market level | Price benchmarks from comparable awards, winners and bid counts |
| Buyer intelligence | Spend, categories, top suppliers, contacts, how-to-win notes | |
| Published market research | Yes, and stronger than ours |
Checked 2026-08-18. Vendors change tiers often, so confirm before you buy.
You want a daily scored shortlist rather than a monthly signal feed, at a fifteenth of the licence cost.
You are sizing a market, writing a board paper, or working named accounts and want the deepest published spend research in the category.
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 does something Tussell does not attempt, a daily scored shortlist of live opportunities.
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 covers the analysis most people go to Tussell for, buyer spend and category patterns, top suppliers, competitor win trends and comparable award benchmarks, pointed at the work in front of you rather than the year behind you.
| Focus | BidSkim | Tussell |
|---|---|---|
| Market | Britain, and only Britain | UK research, analytics and monthly pre tender signals |
| Built for | SMEs deciding what to bid on this week | Analysts, boards and investors sizing a market |
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 publish market reports or league tables.
The data goes into your account, not into a press release. Everything BidSkim knows about buyer spend, supplier wins and comparable awards is pointed at a decision you are making now, which is a different product from a report about last year.
Tussell publishes no price on its own website, but its G-Cloud 14 listing on the government Digital Marketplace states £11,400 a licence a year. BidSkim is £780 a year on Monitor and £1,860 on Predict, both on the website.
It offers market activity alerts and renewal tracking, and its Early Opportunities add-on surfaces signals before a tender is published. Those update monthly and are not scored against your business. A daily scored shortlist is a different product.
BidSkim, if you want a daily list ranked for your business with the reasoning attached. Tussell, if you are researching a market or planning named accounts over a longer horizon.
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