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Deep provider audit

PSIP

PSIP sells a comparatively deep UK procurement-intelligence platform rather than a simple alert feed. Its most defensible depth is the documented ingestion and entity-enrichment pipeline, cross-source buyer and supplier intelligence, published-end-date expiry tracking, and bid workspace; several workflow and integration capabilities are gated to Growth, Professional or custom plans.

At a glance

What is publicly established

Public pricingEssential: £199/month or £169/month billed annually. Growth: £599/month or £499/month billed annually. Professional: £1,199/month or £992/month billed annually. Bid Agency and Enterprise: custom pricing.
Billing basisunknown
Named portals5
Official productOpen provider site ↗
Normalized features

Capability-by-capability evidence

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.

AI or semantic matching

Yes

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.

PSIP AI relevance scoring ↗PSIP pricing ↗

Similar contracts

Not offered

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.

Buyer document corpus

Not offered

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.

Buyer requirements

Yes

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.

PSIP bid workspace ↗PSIP pricing ↗

Requirements planning

Partial

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.

PSIP bid workspace ↗PSIP pricing ↗

Award history

Yes

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.

PSIP competitor tracking ↗PSIP pricing ↗

Frameworks

Yes

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.

PSIP framework tracker ↗PSIP pricing ↗

Competitor tracking

Yes

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.

PSIP competitor tracking ↗PSIP pricing ↗

Exports or API

Yes

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.

PSIP pricing ↗PSIP tender alerts ↗

Team workflow

Yes

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.

PSIP pricing ↗

Bid writing

Yes

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.

PSIP bid workspace ↗PSIP pricing ↗
Comparable pricing

Monthly and annual plans

PlanPay monthly
per month
Pay annually
per year
Annual effective
per month
BasisIncluded usersNotes
Essential£199£2,028Calculated£169unknownNot publicly statedAnnual total is calculated as the explicitly published £169/month billed annually rate multiplied by 12. Prices exclude VAT.
Growth£599£5,988Calculated£499unknownNot publicly statedAnnual total is calculated as the explicitly published £499/month billed annually rate multiplied by 12. Prices exclude VAT. Includes the 14-day no-card trial.
Professional£1,199£11,904Calculated£992unknownNot publicly statedAnnual total is calculated as the explicitly published £992/month billed annually rate multiplied by 12. Prices exclude VAT.
Bid AgencyNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedunknownUnlimited usersCustom tailored pricing; multiple client workspaces and team management are listed. Billing period, currency and pricing basis are not published.
EnterpriseNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedunknownUnlimited usersCustom tailored pricing. Billing period, currency and pricing basis are not published.

Trial: 14-day Growth-plan trial; no credit card required. The pricing table does not list a trial for Essential or Professional. VAT: All prices exclude VAT.

PSIP pricing ↗
Deep audit

Business and product

Legal identity and maturity

Strong evidence

PSIP is operated by BN Solutions, identified in its privacy policy as Scottish company SC318654 and ICO registrant ZC123196. Companies House records BN SOLUTIONS LIMITED as active and incorporated on 15 March 2007, providing a substantially longer legal operating history than the 2026 product pages alone imply.

PSIP privacy policy ↗Companies House: BN Solutions Limited ↗

Target customer and use case

Strong evidence

The product is positioned for UK public-sector suppliers, especially SMEs, internal bid teams and bid consultancies that need opportunity discovery, qualification, competitor and buyer research, renewal prospecting and bid drafting. Sector pages cover IT and cybersecurity, facilities management, professional services, construction and healthcare, while custom plans address agencies and larger teams.

PSIP about ↗PSIP pricing ↗

Commercial model

Strong evidence

Three public standard tiers run from £199 to £1,199 per month, with lower monthly-equivalent rates when billed annually, plus custom Bid Agency and Enterprise tiers. Prices exclude VAT; the Growth trial is fourteen days without a card. Terms provide monthly or annual advance billing, cancellation at period end and a liability cap based on fees paid in the preceding twelve months; standard-plan seat counts and usage limits are not public.

PSIP pricing ↗PSIP terms ↗

Security, support and onboarding

Strong evidence

The privacy policy names subprocessors, purposes and transfer mechanisms and documents TLS 1.2+, encryption at rest, hashed passwords, encrypted webhook credentials, row-level account isolation, restricted production access and monitoring. Supabase database and authentication are stated to be in Dublin; a responsible-disclosure page promises acknowledgement within two business days and an initial response within ten, but no public ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials certificate, customer SLA, backup objective or live status page was found.

PSIP privacy and security controls ↗PSIP security disclosure ↗PSIP terms ↗
Deep audit

Data and discovery engine

Sources and coverage method

Strong evidence

PSIP explicitly documents Find a Tender and Contracts Finder API ingestion, Public Contracts Scotland ingestion, and portal ingestion for Sell2Wales and eTendersNI. It separates procurement notices from published spending files, retains official-source links and describes cross-portal deduplication using source reference identifiers rather than relying on an unqualified all-portals claim.

PSIP data coverage ↗PSIP tender alerts ↗

Ingestion and freshness

Strong evidence

The coverage documentation describes scheduled ingestion, schema validation, source-reference deduplication, status-change processing and traceability back to the original notice. Public pages say source data is updated daily, while alert delivery itself is daily, four-hourly or hourly by plan; no per-source uptime dashboard or failed-ingestion history was found.

PSIP data coverage and pipeline ↗PSIP pricing and alert cadence ↗

Matching and qualification

Strong evidence

PSIP documents explainable 1-10 AI relevance scoring against a supplier's business profile, including semantic capability matching when buyer terminology differs. The bid workspace adds a bid/no-bid scorecard, strengths, red flags and clarification questions; scoring is decision support and the provider requires source verification.

PSIP AI relevance scoring ↗PSIP bid workspace ↗

Historical and award depth

Strong evidence

PSIP exposes award winners, buyers, values, dates, durations and categories, with searchable supplier history and buyer-spend context. Standard-plan history is explicitly tiered at six months on Essential, twelve months on Growth and full history on Professional; published-spend depth varies by covered authority and source publication quality.

PSIP competitor tracking ↗PSIP pricing ↗PSIP buyer intelligence ↗
Deep audit

Intelligence depth

Buyer entity investment

Strong evidence

Buyer profiles aggregate notices, awards, suppliers, spending and expiries. PSIP also documents buyer enrichment using NHS ODS and GIAS identifiers, normalized source references and a validated data pipeline, which is concrete identity investment beyond a buyer-name filter or display page.

PSIP buyer and spend intelligence ↗PSIP data coverage and identity handling ↗

Renewal-signal method

Strong evidence

The expiry tracker is based on published contract end dates, grouped into 30, 90, 180 and 365-day windows and paired with buyer, incumbent and value where available. PSIP expressly qualifies this as a floor rather than the whole market because only a subset of awards contains usable end dates; extensions and missing earlier notices can change the commercial reality, and the pages do not claim confirmed re-tenders.

PSIP contract expiry tracker ↗PSIP data coverage ↗PSIP home renewal coverage qualification ↗

Requirements-planning method

Moderate evidence

Growth and higher plans turn tender material into a compliance checklist, red flags, clarification questions, missing-evidence placeholders, deadlines and a durable bid pipeline. This is materially more than extraction, but the public documentation does not establish per-requirement owners, assigned remediation actions or a persistent readiness state, so normalized requirements planning remains partial.

PSIP bid workspace ↗PSIP pricing ↗

Workflow and integrations

Strong evidence

The product documents a staged bid pipeline and document-aware bid workspace. Growth adds CSV and Slack or Teams delivery, Professional adds API export, Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier and Make routes, and custom agency or enterprise plans add unlimited users, team management and multi-client workspaces.

PSIP pricing ↗PSIP tender alerts ↗PSIP bid workspace ↗
Coverage evidence

Named portals and broader claims

Find a Tender Service

Named as one of the five official UK procurement portals searched by every PSIP alert.

PSIP tender alerts ↗

Contracts Finder

Named as one of the five official UK procurement portals searched by every PSIP alert.

PSIP tender alerts ↗

Public Contracts Scotland

Named as PCS Scotland on the tender-alert page and as Public Contracts Scotland in the FAQ.

PSIP tender alerts ↗

Sell2Wales

Named as one of the five official UK procurement portals searched by every PSIP alert.

PSIP tender alerts ↗

eTendersNI

Named as one of the five official UK procurement portals searched by every PSIP alert.

PSIP tender alerts ↗
  • PSIP says tender data is sourced from the five named official UK government procurement APIs and portals and updated daily.PSIP features ↗
  • The pricing table lists Procurement Act pipeline notices on all three standard plans.PSIP pricing ↗
Buyer diligence

Limitations, contradictions and questions

Material limitations

  • Expiry coverage is constrained to awards with a usable published end date and should be treated as prospecting evidence, not proof that a re-tender will occur; extensions and missing predecessor records can alter the date.PSIP contract expiry tracker ↗PSIP home coverage qualification ↗
  • Buyer-spend intelligence is narrower and more publication-dependent than national tender coverage; a prospect may not have equivalent payment depth for every authority.PSIP data coverage ↗
  • Standard-tier user allowances, overage rules and API or AI usage limits are not disclosed on the public pricing page.PSIP pricing ↗
  • The bid workspace does not publicly document requirement-level owners, remediation actions and a durable readiness state, so it should not be represented as complete pre-bid requirements planning.PSIP bid workspace ↗
  • AI scores, analyst answers and generated bid material require human verification; the terms do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of source data.PSIP privacy policy ↗PSIP terms ↗

First-party contradictions

  • First-party pages display materially different award-corpus totals without a common snapshot date. These may be live counts captured at different times, but they cannot be treated as one fixed coverage figure without clarification.PSIP home ↗PSIP about ↗PSIP features ↗

Questions to ask

  1. What are the measured ingestion latency, failure rate and recovery process for each named source, and can customers see source-health incidents?
  2. How are buyer aliases, reorganisations and supplier-name collisions reviewed, and what confidence or correction process applies to Companies House matches?
  3. How does the expiry tracker detect extensions, early termination and confirmed successor notices, and what proportion of signals historically became procurements?
  4. Which standard-plan user counts, API limits, AI fair-use limits and additional-seat charges apply in the signed order form?
  5. Can PSIP provide its current DPA, full subprocessor schedule, penetration-test summary, backup and recovery objectives and any independent security certifications?
  6. Can the bid workspace assign owners and remediation actions to each requirement and maintain an auditable readiness state, or is that work managed outside PSIP?
Verification boundary: This profile organises provider statements and official records. It is not an independent product test. Verify live notices, data completeness, contract terms and a real workflow before purchase.