BidSkim vs PSIP

Monitor and Predict provide complete ongoing profile-based matching: every new notice is scored 0-100 against services, region, value and certifications with written reasons. The Free plan's one-off scan is plan gating, not an incomplete paid capability.

Every plan includes explainable 1-10 AI relevance scoring against a business profile; the provider says it matches capabilities even when a buyer uses different terminology.

Predict includes structured cross-notice buyer profiles with requirements, spend and award history, top suppliers, contacts, renewals and researched notes. Public data documentation states that repeated notices are deduplicated and lifecycle notices are connected; Predict gating does not downgrade the capability.

Buyer profiles aggregate spend, suppliers, incumbent payments, procurement history and renewals across records. PSIP documents source-ID deduplication, buyer enrichment using NHS ODS and GIAS identifiers, and a validated ingestion pipeline. Depth is plan-dependent.

Predict includes structured supplier and incumbent profiles that aggregate wins, buyers, regions, categories, awarded values, held contracts and renewal exposure across the award record. This is a complete current-plan capability even though public pages do not describe the exact alias-resolution algorithm.

Growth and higher plans provide deliberately built supplier intelligence: users can search a supplier across notices to see awards, buyers, contract values, dates, categories and, where covered, cross-buyer payments. PSIP also documents matching award suppliers to Companies House records.

Predict provides complete renewal timing signals built from public award, contract, modification and termination records. Exact dates, durations and extension options are converted into source-linked planning dates, refreshed daily and ranked against the subscriber profile; the provider explicitly distinguishes these from confirmed re-tender dates.

The Contract Expiry Tracker surfaces published contract end dates in 30, 90, 180 and 365-day windows with buyer, incumbent and value; it is listed on every standard plan.

Predict surfaces comparable historical awards matched by contract scope rather than shared keywords, including winners, values, terms, bid counts and SME status where published. Higher-tier gating does not make the implemented capability partial.

The reviewed pages establish award history and incumbent context but do not state that comparable historical contracts are automatically surfaced against a notice or profile.

The reviewed public pages do not establish a full searchable corpus of buyer-authored documents designed to surface upcoming work.

The reviewed pages mention tender documents and official spend publications, but not buyer plans, strategies, minutes, budgets or other buyer-authored documents beyond procurement records.

Predict buyer profiles organize insurance, certifications, social-value rules, local preferences and pass/fail gates drawn from public buyer records and documents. The capability is complete on Predict; Monitor exclusion is plan gating.

Growth and higher plans extract mandatory requirements into a compliance checklist and structure drafting against tender requirements and evaluation criteria. The capability is complete but plan-gated; Essential excludes it.

Predict is positioned for preparing certifications, evidence and answers before a tender goes live using buyer requirements and likely renewals; no separate task-based readiness workflow is described.

Growth and higher plans provide a bid/no-bid scorecard, compliance checklist, strengths and red flags, clarification questions, missing-evidence placeholders and a staged bid pipeline. Essential does not include this workflow.

The service offers a one-off 12-month matched-award report on Free and five years of connected buyer and award history, comparable awards and supplier intelligence on Predict. Tier-specific lookback and access do not make the capability partial.

Supplier searches show public-sector award history including buyers, values, dates, durations and categories. Standard-plan data history is six months on Essential, twelve months on Growth and full on Professional.

BidSkim badges frameworks, DPS and dynamic markets, filters out non-joinable call-offs and modifications, and shows application/end dates, supplier caps and route-in information.

All standard plans list Crown Commercial Service and Scottish framework tracking. The framework tool covers framework names, references, lots, expiry dates, competition windows and call-off monitoring.

Predict provides complete named-supplier tracking across public-sector wins, buyers, awarded values, regions, categories and contracts nearing expiry. Monitor exclusion is plan gating, not an incomplete implementation.

Growth and higher plans track named suppliers, their wins and approaching expiries and can alert on those events. The capability is complete but plan-gated; Essential excludes it.

No CSV/Excel export, API, webhook or CRM integration is documented on the reviewed pages; the pricing page says large teams needing exports may be better served by enterprise platforms.

Growth includes CSV export. Professional adds API export, CRM integrations for Salesforce and HubSpot, and Zapier or Make delivery. These are complete export and integration routes despite their plan gates.

Monitor and Predict can deliver alerts to up to three teammates and include a pipeline, but no multi-user seats, assignments, comments or shared-workspace permissions are documented.

Bid Agency and Enterprise include unlimited users, team management and team or multi-client workspaces. The collaboration capability is complete on those current custom plans; standard-plan user counts remain unpublished.

The pricing FAQ explicitly says BidSkim does not write bids and focuses on finding, qualifying and researching opportunities before the bid.

Growth and higher plans include evidence-gated drafting for executive summaries, method statements, win themes, compliance checklists and clarification questions. The capability is complete but plan-gated; Essential excludes it.