Contracts Advance

Contracts Advance Limited (company 06258133) is an active UK private limited company incorporated on 24 May 2007, formerly named 7House Limited. Current Terms updated 14 April 2026 identify the company and govern the software subscription, providing substantially longer operating history than newer entrants in this batch.

The product is aimed at suppliers seeking UK public-sector growth, with Search for opportunity monitoring, Discover for forward active-contract visibility and Explore for market, buyer and competitor intelligence. Case studies emphasise established sales teams planning pipelines and account activity months or years ahead.

Current one-year prices are Search £1,399, Discover £2,099 and Explore £2,999, excluding VAT, with lower published two- and three-year rates and unlimited users unless otherwise proposed. Terms auto-renew for an equal period unless at least 60 days' notice is sent to the named renewals address and permit annual price increases by the greater of 5% or CPI; managed bid support is separate.

Case studies document tailored onboarding, search configuration, training and ongoing account-manager support. The Privacy Policy names HubSpot and Intercom and states HTTPS/SSL transport, password-protected profiles and secure servers; the Terms cover reasonable 24/7 availability and customer export but place backup responsibility on the customer. No public DPA, complete subprocessor list, independent certification, MFA/SSO, RTO/RPO, SLA metrics or status page was found.

The provider claims visibility from every available open-source procurement portal and offers a free portal audit against a customer's mission-critical list, but no canonical source is named on the reviewed product and legal pages. Portal-by-portal acquisition methods, source rights and exclusions are therefore not publicly auditable.

Product copy and case studies describe daily alerts and relevant opportunities delivered within 24 hours of publication. Public pages do not explain per-source polling, scraping/API methods, change and withdrawal handling, attachment ingestion, duplicate suppression, backfills, monitoring or measured delivery latency.

Onboarding builds searches from keywords, CPV codes and customer objectives, with programmable notifications and account-manager refinement. The reviewed pages do not establish semantic AI matching, a persistent capability profile, explainable relevance scoring, exclusions or measured precision and recall.

Explore provides Market Analysis of award notices and similar products or services, previous suppliers and competitor awards; Discover adds active contracts, and case studies describe a five-year forward view across contracts and frameworks. Public pages do not quantify total record count, oldest history, missing-award rates or notice-to-contract linkage accuracy.

Explore offers structured Buyer Analysis with contacts, previous suppliers, financial values and procurement-market context across notices. No public documentation establishes buyer canonicalisation, deduplication, aliases, hierarchy, mergers or entity-resolution confidence.

Explore's Competitor Analysis aggregates current contract holders and previous awardees and can compare market position. The provider does not explain linkage to legal entities, aliases, corporate groups, duplicate supplier names or unresolved winner records.

Discover and Explore expose active contracts with holder, supplied goods or services, value and expected market date; case studies describe monthly alerts for contracts ending within six months and framework/contract expiry pipelines extending five years. The pages call some dates likely re-tenders but do not disclose how extension options, source updates or forecast confidence alter the signal.

The platform supports sales-pipeline and resource planning around future opportunities, but the reviewed pages do not establish extraction of tender requirements or a durable readiness workflow with compliance gaps, evidence needs, owners, actions, deadlines and completion states.

The service offers fully exportable data, unlimited users unless a proposal states otherwise, user permissions, sharing and account-manager support. No standard export format, public API, webhook, CRM integration, in-product assignment/comment model or post-termination data format is documented.