BidSkim
BidSkim says it scores public-sector notices against a supplier profile and sends a daily shortlist with reasons.
- Tender-alert benchmark
- £0/mo Free
- Full-package benchmark
- £155/mo Predict
BidSkim has the higher current public-evidence score: 83/100 versus 81/100. Compare the underlying features, price references and public evidence before deciding which product fits your workflow.
BidSkim says it scores public-sector notices against a supplier profile and sends a daily shortlist with reasons.
Stotles connects tender matching with buyer documents, profiles, awards, expiries, competitor intelligence and bid workflow.
The combined score is 68% feature depth and 32% value. A complete feature scores more than a partial feature. Value considers both the tender-alert and full-package price benchmarks, price transparency and billing basis. Features may sit on higher tiers than the headline alert plan.
Yes requires public evidence that the complete capability exists in at least one current plan. Partial means narrower or adjacent functionality. If the research did not establish the capability, it is marked not offered.
| Capability | BidSkim | Stotles |
|---|---|---|
| AI or semantic matching | Yes 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. BidSkim features ↗BidSkim pricing ↗ | Yes Sales Studio scores and explains tender relevance against company context and signal settings, with saved searches and alerts. Track tenders ↗ |
| Buyer profiles | Yes 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. BidSkim features ↗BidSkim pricing ↗BidSkim data coverage ↗ | Yes Stotles publishes cross-notice buyer profiles combining opportunities, awards, contacts, contracts and intent documents for named authorities. Sales Studio ↗Buyer profile guide ↗ |
| Supplier profiles | Yes 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. BidSkim features ↗BidSkim terms ↗ | Yes The data product joins suppliers, awards and buyer relationships and supports competitor and supplier analysis across notices. Stotles data ↗ |
| Renewals | Yes 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. BidSkim features ↗BidSkim data coverage ↗BidSkim pricing ↗BidSkim contract timing method ↗ | Yes The platform publishes more than 100,000 expiring-contract records and exposes expiry views with source contract context. Sales Studio ↗Expiring contracts guide ↗ |
| Similar contracts | Yes 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. BidSkim features ↗BidSkim data coverage ↗ | Yes Users can inspect prior awards, incumbents, values and comparable buyer activity when qualifying an opportunity. Stotles data ↗ |
| Buyer document corpus | Not offered The reviewed public pages do not establish a full searchable corpus of buyer-authored documents designed to surface upcoming work. BidSkim product ↗BidSkim features ↗ | Yes Stotles documents a searchable corpus of more than 400,000 buyer-intent documents, including budgets, board minutes, strategies and policy documents, with relevant passages surfaced for upcoming work. Sales Studio document corpus ↗Find buying signals ↗ |
| Buyer requirements | Yes 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. BidSkim features ↗BidSkim pricing ↗ | Partial Tender documents, summaries and qualification context are available, but the reviewed pages do not establish a complete reusable cross-tender requirements layer for each buyer. Track tenders ↗ |
| Requirements planning | Partial 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. BidSkim pricing ↗BidSkim features ↗ | Partial Bid Studio supports qualification, projects and answer-library workflows, but a durable pre-tender readiness record joining requirement gaps, evidence, owners and dates was not fully established. Stotles pricing ↗ |
| Award history | Yes 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. BidSkim data coverage ↗BidSkim features ↗ | Yes Stotles publishes more than 375,000 awards with buyer, supplier, value and relationship context. Stotles data ↗ |
| Frameworks | Yes 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. BidSkim features ↗ | Yes The platform includes frameworks and call-offs in its connected public-procurement data. Stotles data ↗ |
| Competitor tracking | Yes 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. BidSkim features ↗BidSkim pricing ↗ | Yes Supplier and award intelligence supports competitor, incumbent and buyer-relationship tracking. Stotles data ↗ |
| Exports or API | Not offered 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. BidSkim pricing ↗ | Yes Growth and Expert packages advertise CRM integrations and data delivery options, with availability varying by plan. Stotles pricing ↗Stotles homepage ↗ |
| Team workflow | Partial 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. BidSkim pricing ↗BidSkim features ↗ | Yes Paid team plans support shared searches, pipelines and connected sales and bid workflows. Stotles pricing ↗ |
| Bid writing | Not offered The pricing FAQ explicitly says BidSkim does not write bids and focuses on finding, qualifying and researching opportunities before the bid. BidSkim pricing ↗ | Yes Bid Studio provides tender-document analysis, qualification and AI-assisted bid-response workflow on current plans. Stotles pricing ↗ |
Buyer requirements
Buyer document corpus, Exports or API, Team workflow, Bid writing
AI or semantic matching, Buyer profiles, Supplier profiles, Renewals, Similar contracts, Requirements planning, Award history, Frameworks, Competitor tracking
British suppliers wanting profile-based qualification and links back to official notices.
Public-evidence advantages: Buyer requirements.
Watch for: Teams needing managed bid writing or coverage outside Great Britain. The provider says it does not write bids. Its score is a qualification aid, not a buyer decision or award forecast.
Teams wanting buyer-intent documents, entity-level market intelligence and bid workflow in one connected suite.
Public-evidence advantages: Buyer document corpus, Exports or API, Team workflow, Bid writing.
Watch for: Buyers seeking a simple low-cost alert product with fully fixed higher-tier pricing. Public corpus, coverage and AI claims are provider-stated. Expiry and relevance signals still require human validation.
Free: £0. Monitor: £79/month or £780/year. Predict: £189/month or £1,860/year.
Plan names and prices were checked against BidSkim's public pricing page. Civensa and BidSkim have the same operator; see the ownership disclosure.
BidSkim pricing ↗BidSkim terms ↗AI tender-tracking entry: Sales Studio Basic from £99/month. Full connected package: B2G Growth Engine from £873/month. A separate £0 plan is listed but is not used as the AI tracking benchmark.
The live pricing page contains conflicting older Basic prices. The comparison uses £99 for AI tracking; confirm included users, limits, billing term, VAT and implementation in a dated order form.
Stotles pricing ↗Provider states Britain-wide coverage from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales.
4 individually named portals: Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales.
The provider names the national UK portals, TED and Digital Marketplace and claims more than 100 sources.
7 individually named portals: Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, eTendersNI, Tenders Electronic Daily, Digital Marketplace.
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