AI or semantic matching
Not offeredNo semantic, machine-learning or profile-based relevance matching feature was established on the reviewed pages.
BidStats is a mature tender-search and market-analysis service operated by Oxygen Finance, with free search and paid layers for alerts, awards, expiring contracts, exports, frameworks and API-enabled pre-procurement intelligence. Its strongest defensible depth is long historical coverage and an established corporate operator; its weakest area is entity quality, where public buyer and supplier reports visibly group names without proving robust organizational resolution.
Yes means the complete normalized capability is available in at least one current plan. Partial means the implementation is adjacent, incomplete or materially narrower. Missing public evidence defaults to not offered.
No semantic, machine-learning or profile-based relevance matching feature was established on the reviewed pages.
BidStats publishes cross-notice buyer reports with notices, awards, sectors, suppliers and name-grouping sections. Example reports explicitly list names included and excluded, but can group several distinct departments, so robust canonical buyer identity is not established.
BidStats home ↗Example grouped buyer report ↗BidStats publishes cross-notice supplier reports with awards, sectors, values, buyers and explicit included/excluded name groups. Example reports group multiple distinct suppliers under a search concept, so robust canonical supplier identity is not established.
BidStats home ↗Example grouped supplier report ↗A complete expiring-contract pipeline is included in Standard, Pro and Insights, using two, five or ten years of awarded-contract coverage respectively. Free-plan exclusion and tiered lookback are plan gating, not an incomplete capability.
BidStats pricing ↗Search and analysis pages expose historical notices, but no feature that deliberately surfaces comparable historical contracts against a notice or profile was established.
A Knowledge Hub is named on paid plans, but the reviewed pages do not establish that it contains buyer plans, strategies, minutes, budgets or other buyer-authored documents beyond procurement notices.
BidStats pricing ↗No normalized extraction of certifications, participation conditions, policies or evaluation criteria was established.
No readiness, requirements-gap or evidence-planning workflow was established.
Paid plans provide complete award-history access with awardees and values across two, five or ten years depending on tier, while public supplier and tender pages also expose award records. Tiered history depth does not make the capability partial.
BidStats pricing ↗Supplier reports ↗Insights includes frameworks data as a complete current-plan capability. Its higher-tier restriction is plan gating, not a partial implementation.
BidStats pricing ↗Supplier reports provide competitor research, but no named-supplier monitoring or competitor alert feature was established.
Supplier reports ↗Pro includes tender and contract export, and Insights includes exports plus CRM connectivity through an API. These complete higher-tier capabilities qualify as yes despite Free and Standard exclusions.
BidStats pricing ↗Pro includes three seats and extra users can be purchased, establishing current multi-user access. Assignments, shared pipelines, comments and permission detail were not established, but the normalized collaboration definition is met by multiple users.
BidStats pricing ↗No bid drafting, response library, document analysis, compliance matrix or managed writing service was established.
| Plan | Pay monthly per month | Pay annually per year | Annual effective per month | Basis | Included users | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BidStats Free | £0 | Not published | Not published | unknown | Not publicly stated | Free plan with five tender views per day and 90 days of history; this is not an annual billing plan. |
| BidStats Standard | £35 | £350 | £29.17 | per seat | One user at the published per-user price | The page's pricing script labels Standard as per user per month or year. Base-plan VAT treatment is not stated. |
| BidStats Pro | £80 | £800 | £66.67 | per team | First 3 seats included | The page labels the monthly and annual prices as covering the first three seats. Extra users are £150 plus VAT each, with the charge period not stated. |
| Insights | Not published | £5,000 | £416.67 | unknown | Not publicly stated | Starting price ('from £5,000 per annum'); actual quote may be higher. Extra-user statement explicitly excludes Insights. |
Trial: No trial or payment-card requirement is publicly stated on the checked pricing page. VAT: Extra users are explicitly priced at £150 plus VAT; the VAT treatment of base plan prices is not stated on the checked page.
BidStats pricing ↗BidStats terms identify Oxygen Finance Limited as supplier. Companies House records Oxygen Finance Limited (05288899) as active, incorporated in November 2004, with medium-company accounts through 2025; this is materially more established than newly formed specialist competitors.
BidStats terms ↗Oxygen Finance Companies House record ↗The service spans occasional free search, Standard users needing daily alerts and expiry pipeline, three-seat Pro teams needing deeper history and exports, and Insights customers needing frameworks, pre-procurement leads, decision-maker contacts and CRM API connectivity. The pricing page states 80,000+ users.
BidStats pricing ↗BidStats home ↗Free, Standard, Pro and custom Insights tiers are publicly packaged. Standard is £35 monthly per user or £350 annually; Pro is £80 monthly or £800 annually for three seats; Insights starts at £5,000 annually. Extra users cost £150 plus VAT, but the charge period is not stated, and VAT treatment for base plans is not explicit.
BidStats pricing ↗Oxygen publishes a privacy policy, ICO registration, data-processing policy and BidStats terms with confidentiality obligations; its privacy policy describes access controls, breach procedures and international-transfer safeguards. Retention details are available on request rather than product-specific public schedules, and no BidStats security certification, penetration-test statement, public status page or support SLA was found. Terms also permit use of customer feedback/content to improve products, including training AI/ML technologies, which enterprise buyers should scope precisely.
Oxygen Finance privacy policy ↗Oxygen Finance data processing policy ↗BidStats terms ↗Public search explicitly names Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and TED/OJEU, while pricing and homepage copy claim sourcing from 3,000+ or 3,600+ buyers. Public terms acknowledge reliance on third-party portals and official publications, but no full buyer/source inventory, portal-by-portal ingestion method or coverage reconciliation is published.
BidStats tender search ↗BidStats home ↗BidStats terms ↗The homepage says data is sourced daily and paid alerts are delivered daily. No public status page, per-source latency, retry/backfill policy, missed-notice reconciliation metric or uptime SLA was found; the terms disclaim third-party portal availability and data accuracy/completeness.
BidStats home ↗BidStats pricing ↗BidStats terms ↗BidStats supports keyword searches, daily tender and award notifiers, source/region/value/buyer-type/sector filters and CPV-derived keyword analysis. No semantic, profile-based or AI relevance-scoring method was established on the reviewed public pages.
BidStats pricing ↗BidStats terms ↗BidStats analysis ↗History scales from 90 days on Free to two years on Standard, five years on Pro and ten years on Insights. Paid plans expose awardees and values and power expiring-contract pipelines over the same lookback, while public tender, buyer and supplier pages make substantial award records discoverable.
BidStats pricing ↗BidStats supplier reports ↗BidStats buyer reports ↗Buyer reports aggregate notices, awards, suppliers, sectors and geography and explicitly expose names included and excluded from a report. Sampled broad reports can merge distinct departments under one concept, so the public evidence shows grouping investment but not reliable canonical buyer entities, hierarchy or alias adjudication.
BidStats buyer reports ↗Example grouped buyer report ↗Supplier reports aggregate awards, values, buyers, sectors and geography and expose included/excluded name groups. The sampled 'Insight' report groups multiple distinct organizations under a search concept, so company-number linkage, aliases, trading-name merges and canonical supplier identity are not established.
BidStats supplier reports ↗Example grouped supplier report ↗Standard, Pro and Insights include an 'Expiring contracts pipeline' built from contracts awarded in the prior two, five or ten years, and legacy first-party copy says the technology predicts tenders before publication. Public documentation does not distinguish explicit contract-end dates, calculated durations, extension options, predicted windows and confirmed future notices.
BidStats pricing ↗BidStats product home ↗No extraction of buyer requirements and no durable readiness workflow for gaps, evidence, owners, actions, deadlines or readiness state was established. A Knowledge Hub label alone does not establish its content or planning method.
BidStats pricing ↗The product documents bookmarked tenders and folders, daily notifiers, Pro export with three seats, and Insights CRM connectivity via API. It does not publish the API specification, supported CRMs, sync direction, assignments, comments, shared pipeline behavior or role permissions.
BidStats home ↗BidStats pricing ↗The public site names TED/OJEU as a source for its UK tender search.
BidStats tender search ↗The public site names Contracts Finder as a source for its UK tender search.
BidStats tender search ↗The public site names Find a Tender as a source for its UK tender search.
BidStats tender search ↗