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Tenderlake

Tenderlake is a mature supplier-side tender-intelligence platform built around multilingual semantic search, workflow distribution, award/contract-end intelligence and cross-notice organisation monitoring. Its strongest defensible depth is the combination of long historical coverage, user-configured buyer/supplier aliasing, sophisticated team routing and current API access, while it intentionally stops before bid writing and detailed requirements planning.

At a glance

What is publicly established

Public pricingUK+IE is £325/month on a monthly plan or £249/month paid annually. Europe/UK/Int+ is £546/month on a monthly plan or £396/month paid annually. Bespoke expansions are available by contacting the provider.
Billing basisper team
Named portals4
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

Users describe products and services in natural language; Tenderlake evaluates meaning and capability alignment, explains fit and learns from feedback.

Product overview ↗Pricing and AI FAQ ↗

Buyer profiles

Yes

Buyer procurement profiles aggregate tender history, category mix, similar organisations, awards and suppliers. Tenderlake also models a buyer as a named organisation separate from the multiple aliases users enter to match that buyer across notices, establishing explicit cross-notice identity handling.

Example buyer procurement profile ↗Buyer organisation and alias setup ↗

Supplier profiles

Yes

Users create a canonical contractor organisation with multiple name aliases, then monitor awards to that contractor and analyse competitor award reports across notices. Identity handling is user-configured rather than claimed as automatic.

Monitor competitors and buyers ↗Contract awards report ↗

Buyer document corpus

Not offered

The reviewed pages do not establish buyer plans, strategies, minutes, budgets or other buyer-authored material beyond procurement notices.

Buyer requirements

Partial

Capability assessments explain fit and flag potential requirement risks, but the reviewed pages do not establish a normalized register of participation conditions, certifications or recurring buyer requirements.

Product overview ↗

Requirements planning

Not offered

Qualification workflow is described, but the reviewed pages do not establish evidence-gap, readiness or requirement-by-requirement planning before bid submission.

Award history

Yes

Plans include more than ten years of history, award update subscriptions and industry contract-awards reports showing winners and other award intelligence.

Pricing ↗Contract awards report ↗

Frameworks

Yes

UK+IE explicitly includes frameworks and Dynamic Purchasing Systems.

Pricing ↗

Team workflow

Yes

Included users can coordinate bid interest, qualification stages and distributions through folders, email lists, Microsoft Teams and Slack channels.

Pricing ↗Why Tenderlake ↗

Bid writing

Not offered

Tenderlake explicitly says it does not write bids and is focused on supplier-side tender intelligence.

Product overview ↗
Comparable pricing

Monthly and annual plans

PlanPay monthly
per month
Pay annually
per year
Annual effective
per month
BasisIncluded usersNotes
UK+IE£325£2,988Calculated£249per team2 Primary/Admin and 5 Pro user licencesThe provider explicitly displays £249/month paid annually; the £2,988 annual total is calculated as £249 × 12 rather than published as a total. VAT treatment is not stated.
Europe/UK/Int+£546£4,752Calculated£396per team2 Primary/Admin and 7 Pro user licencesThe provider explicitly displays £396/month paid annually; the £4,752 annual total is calculated as £396 × 12 rather than published as a total. VAT treatment is not stated.
Bespoke planNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedunknownCustom; additional users, emails, AI Searches, Keyword Searches and Teams channels are available by discussionCustom quote. The pricing FAQ says bespoke plans and invoice payment are available but does not publish currency, billing basis or prices.

Trial: Seven-day free trial with no credit card required for all listed plans. VAT: VAT treatment is not publicly stated on the reviewed pricing page.

Pricing ↗
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Business and product

Legal identity and maturity

Strong evidence

Tenderlake Ltd is an active English private company, number 10295265, incorporated 26 July 2016, with filed accounts through 31 March 2025. The provider terms identify the same company and registered office; a decade-long filing history and current product documentation indicate materially greater operating maturity than launch-stage entrants.

Companies House overview ↗Companies House filing history ↗Tenderlake Terms of Service ↗

Target customer and use case

Strong evidence

Tenderlake explicitly serves serious public-sector suppliers, commercial leaders, central tender-intelligence teams and bid operations that need complete UK/EU visibility, faster qualification, multilingual discovery and distribution across business units. Primary/Pro account design also addresses larger workgroups with central administrators and specialist stakeholders.

Product overview ↗Primary vs Pro accounts ↗

Commercial model

Strong evidence

UK+Ireland is £325 month-to-month or £249 per month billed annually; Europe/UK/International+ is £546 month-to-month or £396 per month billed annually, with a bespoke tier available. Plans bundle users, AI/keyword searches, alerts, history, renewals, awards, competitor tracking, integrations and API; invoice billing is offered separately at the undiscounted monthly-plan rate.

Tenderlake pricing ↗

Security, support and onboarding

Moderate evidence

The privacy policy says passwords are stored encrypted, connections use SSL and computers/storage are in the UK; API keys are customer-scoped and permissioned. The public offer includes a seven-day no-card trial, demonstrations, Academy tutorials and direct support, but no current sub-processor list, AI data-use boundary, independent certification, penetration-test summary, incident SLA or public status page was found; the privacy policy predates the current AI/API product surface.

Privacy Policy ↗Tenderlake API ↗Pricing and trial ↗
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Data and discovery engine

Sources and coverage method

Moderate evidence

The product claims full UK/EU/EEA coverage, coverage in 192 countries and more than 200,000 buying organisations; the higher plan claims more than 250,000. Pricing distinguishes UK+Ireland from a Europe/UK/International tier, and first-party pages explicitly establish TED, Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and DOS records, but no single exhaustive portal inventory is published.

Product overview ↗Pricing ↗TED alternative ↗

Ingestion and freshness

Moderate evidence

Saved searches can feed daily alerts and automatic weekday-morning distributions, while the API lets customers check new or updated procurements using stable identifiers and paging. The reviewed pages do not publish source-specific polling cadences, measured ingestion latency, duplicate/correction rules, a public status history or a contractual freshness SLA.

Distribution-list workflow ↗Tenderlake API ↗

Matching and qualification

Strong evidence

Customers describe products, services, scope and exclusions in natural language; Tenderlake evaluates semantic capability alignment, explains relevance and concerns, operates across European languages, and learns from user feedback. Primary users configure shared AI searches while Pro users can maintain personal AI searches; keyword search remains available but is not the core method.

Product overview and AI matching ↗Primary vs Pro accounts ↗Why Tenderlake ↗

Historical and award depth

Strong evidence

Published plans include more than ten years of history, award-update subscriptions, industry contract-award reports and contract-end reports. Documentation also describes related-notice chains linking prior information notices, corrections and subsequent awards, and public buyer profiles expose historical tenders, awards and suppliers.

Pricing ↗Contract Awards Report ↗Tenderlake Academy notice history index ↗
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Intelligence depth

Buyer entity investment

Strong evidence

Tenderlake provides cross-notice buyer procurement profiles with history, category mix, similar organisations, awards and suppliers. Its monitoring workflow explicitly separates the canonical display organisation from multiple common-name aliases entered to match that buyer across notices; this establishes deliberate identity handling, although the reviewed evidence is user-configured rather than automatic entity resolution.

Monitor specific competitors and buyers ↗Public buyer procurement profile ↗

Supplier entity investment

Strong evidence

Users create a canonical contractor organisation, attach multiple name aliases and monitor awards across those aliases; award reports aggregate winning suppliers to support competitor, partner and customer analysis. Identity quality depends on the aliases configured by the customer, and no automatic corporate-group resolution claim was found.

Monitor specific competitors and buyers ↗Contract Awards Report ↗

Renewal-signal method

Strong evidence

The Contract End Report surfaces previously awarded service and supply contracts whose recorded end dates fall within the next 24 months and alerts users when relevant contracts are nearing expiry. The provider frames this as an opportunity to ask the buyer whether it will re-tender, extend or renew, so the signal is an end-date window rather than confirmation of a future competition.

Contract End Report and renewal feature index ↗Product plan-ahead description ↗

Requirements-planning method

Not found

Tenderlake supports relevance explanations, concern flags, qualify-in/out stages and requests from stakeholders to a central team, but no durable requirement-level workflow with evidence gaps, owners, actions, deadlines or readiness state was documented. The provider expressly positions itself as intelligence rather than bid writing.

Product overview ↗Tenderlake workflow ↗

Workflow and integrations

Strong evidence

Primary administrators configure searches, folders, reports, exports, Teams/Slack connections, email lists and automated distribution; Pro users receive shared folders, submit requests, provide feedback and run personal AI searches. Distribution lists, bid-interest coordination and folder-based routing support larger teams, while the current customer-scoped REST API is versioned and OpenAPI-documented but remains labelled beta.

Primary vs Pro accounts ↗Distribution lists ↗Tenderlake API ↗
Coverage evidence

Named portals and broader claims

Find a Tender

Tenderlake's Find a Tender alternative page explicitly compares its dataset with Find a Tender and says Tenderlake includes UK notices beyond that portal.

Find a Tender alternative ↗

Public Contracts Scotland

Public Tenderlake notice pages explicitly link back to Public Contracts Scotland. This demonstrates included records, not a source-wide completeness guarantee.

Example Scotland notice ↗
  • UK+IE claims lower- and higher-value contracts, including OJEU, across the UK and Ireland. Europe/UK/Int+ adds the UK, EU, Norway, Switzerland, World Bank and other sources, with below-threshold national notices in EU countries.Pricing ↗
  • The product page claims full UK/EU/EEA coverage, 192 countries and more than 200,000 buying organisations; the higher plan claims more than 250,000 buying organisations.Product overview ↗Pricing ↗
Buyer diligence

Limitations, contradictions and questions

Material limitations

  • Very broad full-coverage and country/organisation claims are not backed by a single exhaustive portal inventory or public source-level freshness metrics.Product overview ↗Pricing ↗
  • Buyer and supplier alias handling is explicit but user-configured; automatic entity resolution, corporate-family modelling and duplicate-merge accuracy are not established.Organisation monitoring workflow ↗
  • Contract-end alerts indicate expiry risk, not a confirmed extension, renewal or re-tender event.Renewal feature index ↗
  • The service does not write bids and the reviewed workflow does not establish detailed requirement/evidence readiness planning or buyer-authored document intelligence.Product overview ↗
  • The published privacy and terms pages are materially older than current AI, API and connector features and do not disclose a current processor/security assurance package.Privacy Policy ↗Terms of Service ↗Current API announcement ↗

First-party contradictions

  • Pricing presents API access as an included plan feature, while the current API announcement calls it a beta available only to customers on the latest plans and says pricing may evolve after the no-extra-charge beta period.Pricing ↗API beta announcement ↗

Questions to ask

  1. Provide the exhaustive source inventory, per-source polling cadence, last-90-day ingestion lag and completeness figures.
  2. How much buyer/supplier entity resolution is automatic versus dependent on customer-maintained aliases, and how are reorganisations or corporate groups handled?
  3. Exactly which source field drives Contract End Report dates, how are extension options treated, and are confidence/provenance labels shown?
  4. Which plan/account types can use the API beta, what are its limits, and what pricing or endpoint changes are expected at general availability?
  5. Can Tenderlake supply a current DPA, sub-processor list, AI model/data-use statement, security architecture and independent assurance evidence?
  6. What measured recall and precision does AI Search achieve for our services across the languages and countries we target?
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.