KimonBids sells an unusually broad UK-SME workflow spanning tender discovery, AI qualification, bid drafting, reusable evidence, compliance readiness and pre-procurement planning. Its strongest differentiation is the connected bid/evidence/readiness workflow at published SME pricing; its weakest diligence areas are a very young operating company, four-portal-only coverage and no demonstrated buyer or competitor entity-resolution layer.
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.
The platform says it scores each opportunity against a company profile using CPV, sector, region, company-size and value-range factors, with document-enhanced and lot-level matching also listed.
Tender Intelligence help ↗KimonBids features ↗Buyer history on tender detail pages aggregates previous contracts, incumbent suppliers, typical values, procurement frequency and methods. The reviewed pages do not establish buyer-name canonicalisation, deduplication or entity resolution, so this does not qualify as a fully resolved buyer profile.
Tender Intelligence help ↗KimonBids features ↗The product surfaces incumbent names through buyer history and advertises competitor contract-win and framework-position intelligence, but the reviewed pages do not establish deliberately built cross-notice supplier entities or structured supplier profile pages.
Tender Intelligence help ↗KimonBids features ↗KimonBids advertises expiring-contract tracking for competitor awards due for renewal, supported by contract start/end dates in its intelligence data. The public pages do not explain whether extensions or predicted re-tenders are modelled or clearly state plan gating.
KimonBids comparison ↗Tender Intelligence help ↗Tender detail pages show a buyer's previous contracts in the user's sector, with historical values, incumbent suppliers and procurement frequency.
Tender Intelligence help ↗KimonBids documents tender specifications, buyer-issued bid documents and procurement notices, but the reviewed pages did not establish collection of buyer strategies, minutes, budgets or other non-notice buyer-authored documents.
Tender records include specification text and published evaluation-criteria weightings; AI drafting reads tender questions and evaluation criteria, while the PA2023 checklist organises conditions of participation and evidence requirements.
KimonBids features ↗Pipeline opportunities can generate preparation checklists for relationship building, evidence gathering, accreditation renewals and financial documents; the compliance centre provides readiness scoring and evidence-expiry alerts.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids shows buyer award history, previous winning suppliers and values, and advertises award-history pricing benchmarks and supplier award portfolios built from public data.
Tender Intelligence help ↗KimonBids features ↗KimonBids says it monitors framework tender notices and call-off opportunities across its four UK procurement portals and provides lot-level matching for multi-lot frameworks.
Frameworks guide ↗KimonBids features ↗Paid-tier competitor intelligence is described as monitoring competitor contract wins and framework positions; buyer history also exposes incumbents.
KimonBids features ↗Tender Intelligence help ↗Bid drafts and generated compliance documents can be exported to DOCX/PDF, and the security page says users can export account data, bid history, match data and documents in standard formats. No public tender-data API, webhook or CRM integration was established.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids security ↗All plans support multi-user organisations with role-based access and a shared workspace; bid workspaces support review, comments, version history and tracked changes.
KimonBids pricing ↗Bid-writing software ↗KimonBids provides structured AI first drafts, tender-specific bid workspaces, a reusable PSQ response bank, section editing, version history and Word export. Monthly draft allowances vary by plan.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids pricing ↗| Plan | Pay monthly per month | Pay annually per year | Annual effective per month | Basis | Included users | Notes |
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| Free | £0 | Not published | Not published | per organisation | 1 user | Free forever and one lifetime watermarked, read-only AI bid-draft trial. The current pricing bullets say three keyword alerts, while the feature comparison says one alert; confirm the live allowance. |
| Pro | £79 | £758.40 | £63.20 | per organisation | Up to 3 users | Five AI bid drafts per month. Annual price is published in the annual billing view. |
| Growth | £179 | £1,718.40 | £143.20 | per organisation | Up to 5 users | Ten AI bid drafts per month. Annual price is published in the annual billing view. |
| Scale | £399 | £3,830.40 | £319.20 | per organisation | Up to 10 users | Twenty-five AI bid drafts per month. Annual price is published in the annual billing view. |
Trial: A free plan is available without a credit card. It includes one lifetime, watermarked, read-only AI bid-draft trial; paid monthly draft limits are 5, 10 and 25 on Pro, Growth and Scale respectively. VAT: VAT treatment is not publicly stated.
KimonBids pricing ↗KimonBids annual pricing ↗Companies House records Kimon Services (UK) Ltd (15309792) as an active private company incorporated on 27 November 2023. KimonBids' privacy policy identifies that entity, its registered office and ICO number ZB664518; the public site does not publish headcount, funding, uptime history or audited customer counts, so product-scale maturity is less established than the feature breadth suggests.
Companies House: Kimon Services (UK) Ltd ↗KimonBids privacy policy ↗The product is purpose-built for UK SMEs rather than enterprise bid teams. It covers occasional bidders on Free through higher-volume teams on Scale and combines discovery, bid/no-bid, drafting, compliance preparation, track-record management and team review in one workspace.
KimonBids home ↗KimonBids pricing ↗The flat per-organisation plans are Free, Pro £79/month, Growth £179/month and Scale £399/month, with published annual totals at a 20% discount and 1, 3, 5 and 10-user limits. Paid tiers mainly gate draft credits and team size; Pro already includes the broad intelligence, compliance, social-value and drafting toolset. Monthly plans have no minimum term, subscriptions renew in advance, partial-period refunds are excluded and prices may change with 30 days' notice.
KimonBids pricing ↗KimonBids annual pricing ↗KimonBids terms ↗KimonBids documents TLS 1.2+, AES-256 at rest, UK/EEA hosting, role-based access, staff MFA with logged/audited production access, backups, geographic redundancy, dependency monitoring, OWASP practices and 24/7 infrastructure monitoring. It says LLM API agreements prohibit training and discard queries, offers Enterprise DPAs, retains cancelled-account data for 30 days and advertises 99.9% infrastructure uptime. It is only working toward Cyber Essentials, and no independent penetration report, ISO/SOC certification, SSO or public status history is exposed. Self-serve onboarding takes under an hour, with email or priority support by plan.
KimonBids security ↗KimonBids privacy policy ↗KimonBids pricing ↗KimonBids explicitly limits live tender ingestion to Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales and Public Contracts Scotland, covering live, post-award and Procurement Act pipeline/transparency notice types. It states that full specification text, buyer contacts, published evaluation weightings, deadlines and values are indexed, but does not document connectors, licences, amendment handling or source-level field completeness.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids pricing ↗The provider says it monitors the four portals in real time and indexes new notices within minutes of publication, with homepage counts updated hourly. No public freshness dashboard, status page, ingestion incident log, deduplication specification, amendment reconciliation or missed-notice SLA was found.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids home ↗A company profile captures sector, capabilities, geographic reach, typical values and accreditations. Every notice is scored across sector alignment, capability match, geography, value fit and certification requirements, with Strong Match through Not a Match labels and a plain-English rationale; higher plans add document-enhanced and lot-level scoring, and go/no-go flags capability gaps, evaluation fit and effort-to-value.
KimonBids features ↗Tender Intelligence help ↗AI bid-writing workflow ↗The product advertises complete buyer award histories, incumbent and competitor wins, pricing benchmarks, framework positions and automatic construction of a user's public-sector award portfolio. It does not publish the history start date, award completeness rate, award-to-tender linking method or treatment of duplicate and missing-value awards.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids pricing ↗Buyer history aggregates previous awards, incumbent suppliers, values, frequency, methods, spending patterns and procurement behaviour. This is meaningful cross-notice buyer intelligence, but the public documentation does not explain buyer-name canonicalisation, aliases, organisational hierarchies, duplicate merging or entity-resolution quality, so it remains partial.
KimonBids features ↗Tender Intelligence help ↗KimonBids advertises competitor wins, framework positions, consortium-partner matching and an automatically built award portfolio for the user's own company. Companies House enriches the user's profile, but public documentation does not establish canonical competitor or incumbent entities, alias resolution or reusable supplier pages.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids pricing ↗The comparison page advertises expiring-contract tracking for competitor awards due for renewal, while tender and buyer history includes contract start/end dates. It does not say whether signals are source dates, calculated windows, extension-adjusted dates or predicted re-tenders, nor show alert cadence or plan gating clearly.
KimonBids comparison ↗Tender Intelligence help ↗KimonBids goes beyond extraction: pipeline opportunities generate preparation actions for relationship building, evidence gathering, accreditation renewals and financial documents with recommended timelines and persistent preparation status. Its PA2023 centre tracks required evidence, complete/incomplete items, weighted readiness, expiry dates and 60-day alerts; bid workspaces retain question-level progress and versions, and team workflows support assigned sections and review state. Public pages do not show custom owner assignment on every compliance item, but a durable gaps, evidence, action, date and readiness workflow is established.
KimonBids features ↗Procurement Act 2023 guide ↗KimonBids home ↗Each pursued tender has a bid workspace with buyer and company documents, organised questions, progress, drafts and version history. Teams receive Owner/Admin/Member/Viewer roles, a shared organisation workspace, section assignment and review state; responses export to DOCX and account data is exportable. No public API, CRM integration, webhook, Microsoft 365/Google Workspace co-authoring or direct portal submission is documented.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids pricing ↗KimonBids security ↗KimonBids says it indexes Find a Tender opportunities.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids says it indexes Contracts Finder opportunities, including lower-value and post-award notices.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids says it indexes Sell2Wales opportunities.
KimonBids features ↗KimonBids says it indexes Public Contracts Scotland opportunities.
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