Tenders Direct is a mature, human-curated UK and Ireland tender-alert service operated by Proactis Tenders Ltd, combining notice discovery with a searchable archive, competitor and advance-alert intelligence, opportunity management, integrations and separately sold bid services. Its most defensible differentiation is daily analyst sourcing, peer review and category matching rather than proprietary AI; public contractual material, however, conflicts with the current product page on trial length, users, archive depth and some plan entitlements.
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.
Profile-based matching is established: specialists review each notice, assign industry-category keywords and match opportunities to a business profile rather than relying only on CPV or raw keyword automation. The reviewed pages do not call this AI or machine learning.
Tenders Direct company and matching process ↗Tenders Direct subscriptions and features ↗Buyer activity can be analysed in the historical database, but the reviewed pages did not establish structured buyer profile pages.
Competitor Tracker exposes any named business's award history, values, buyer relationships, market share and renewal dates and calls this a competitor profile. No supplier-name canonicalisation, company-number matching, aliases or deduplication method is published.
Tenders Direct Competitor Tracker ↗Advance Tender Alerts monitor contract expiry dates and provide up to 18 months' notice of potential re-tendering opportunities. The searchable database exposes historical awards, contract durations and likely re-tender dates.
Tenders Direct subscriptions and features ↗The provider offers more than ten years of searchable notices, but the reviewed pages did not establish comparable past contracts surfaced automatically against a current notice or profile.
The reviewed public pages do not establish a full searchable corpus of buyer-authored documents designed to surface upcoming work.
Tenders Direct FOI tool ↗The separate current managed bid-writing service establishes the buyer's requirements and checks that every required item is considered and included. This is a human service rather than automated extraction and is priced separately from the alert subscription.
Tenders Direct bid-writing service ↗A readiness check and separate managed bid services support capability assessment, task planning, clarifications, reviews and submission preparation, but this is not shown as a structured requirements-gap feature inside the alert subscription.
Tenders Direct subscriptions and readiness check ↗Tenders Direct bid-management service ↗All subscriptions include a tender database with contracts and awards; the feature page says it contains more than ten years of notices with historical award notices, previous suppliers, contract values and durations.
Tenders Direct subscriptions and features ↗The Searchable Notice Database has a dedicated contract-type filter for Framework Agreements and Dynamic Procurements, enabling current framework and dynamic-market discovery across the historical corpus.
Tenders Direct searchable notice database ↗Competitor Tracker identifies competitor awards, sends alerts when named competitors win work, and analyses market share and buyer activity. All three published paid plans list competitor tracking alerts.
Tenders Direct subscriptions and features ↗All three paid plans list an export function and Integrate Basic or Complete. The API feature transfers tender data to CRM or ERP systems; the provider also names Salesforce, HubSpot and Zapier as integration examples.
Tenders Direct subscriptions and API ↗Tenders Direct government tenders guide ↗Opportunity Manager centralises the bid pipeline, assigns tasks, tracks stages and deadlines, and supports team collaboration. Published paid plans include unlimited users.
Tenders Direct subscriptions and features ↗Tenders Direct provides a separate managed bid-writing service that writes proposals, structures responses, checks required information and debriefs after submission. Its fee is tailored and not included in the published alert-subscription price.
Tenders Direct bid-writing service ↗| Plan | Pay monthly per month | Pay annually per year | Annual effective per month | Basis | Included users | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7-day Free Trial | Not published | Not published | Not published | per team | 1 user | Published as £0 for seven days; it is not a monthly or annual billing schedule. Card requirement is not stated. |
| Basic | Not published | £1,359 | £113.25 | per team | Unlimited users | Price shown with the one-year billing selection. One saved search. VAT treatment is not stated. |
| Core | Not published | £2,044 | £170.33 | per team | Unlimited users | Price shown with the one-year billing selection. Five saved searches. VAT treatment is not stated. |
| Premium | Not published | £2,319 | £193.25 | per team | Unlimited users | Price shown with the one-year billing selection. 100 saved searches. VAT treatment is not stated. |
| Bespoke | Not published | Not published | Not published | unknown | Not publicly stated | Bespoke packages are offered for unique requirements; no numeric price or billing basis is published. |
Trial: Seven-day free trial. Payment-card requirement is not publicly stated. VAT: VAT treatment is not publicly stated beside the reviewed subscription prices.
Tenders Direct subscriptions and features ↗The brand identifies Proactis Tenders Ltd as its operator and Companies House records company SC115090 as active and incorporated on 12 December 1988. The company page says Tenders Direct was established in 1993 and is part of the Proactis group, giving it a substantially longer operating history than newer alert tools.
Tenders Direct company history ↗Companies House: Proactis Tenders Ltd ↗The service targets suppliers pursuing UK, Irish and European public-sector work, from SMEs needing focused alerts through teams using opportunity management, competitor research, integrations and managed bid support. Published plans scale mainly by saved searches and intelligence depth rather than user count, while consultancy services serve organisations needing hands-on bid preparation.
Tenders Direct product and plans ↗Tenders Direct tender-alert service ↗Tenders Direct bid-writing service ↗The live one-year table publishes Basic £1,359, Core £2,044 and Premium £2,319 for unlimited users, with a seven-day trial and bespoke options. Terms describe annual commitment, automatic renewal, VAT-exclusive fees, 28-day invoices, cancellation before renewal, no cooling-off and a possible £299 administration charge; renewal price may rise by up to 10%. Several commercial terms conflict with the live table.
Tenders Direct current pricing ↗Tenders Direct subscription terms ↗The current product page states ISO 27001:2022 certification, dedicated account management, onboarding and weekday support. Subscription terms include data-processing clauses, identify Redcentric as a subprocessor, provide audit rights and require breach notification. Public evidence does not establish SSO/MFA, backup objectives, penetration-test results, a public status page or contractual uptime SLA.
Tenders Direct product, support and ISO claim ↗Tenders Direct subscription and data terms ↗The provider says specialists monitor more than 500 sources daily, including official UK, Ireland and OJEU sources, procurement portals and direct buyer sites, and source more than 1,700 opportunities each week. The five UK national services are explicitly named in its guidance, but no exhaustive source register or source-level completeness measure is published.
Tenders Direct sourcing and review ↗Tenders Direct alert coverage ↗Tenders Direct procurement-source guidance ↗Analysts source notices every working day, analyse requirements, rewrite titles, assign more than 2,000 categories and peer-review each record before matching. The database says it is updated daily. This is unusually explicit human quality control, but public pages do not quantify publication-to-alert latency, weekend coverage, amendment handling, failed-source monitoring or recall.
Tenders Direct sourcing and peer review ↗Tenders Direct searchable notice database ↗Matching is a complete current capability based on a customer business profile and human-applied industry categories and keywords. Analysts review the underlying requirement before assigning categories, reducing dependence on inconsistent buyer CPV coding and titles. The provider does not claim semantic models or publish match-rate validation, so this is evidence of curated profile matching rather than AI.
Tenders Direct sourcing and matching ↗Tenders Direct alert profiles ↗The current product and database pages advertise more than ten years of searchable notices and complete ten-year award histories for tracked competitors, with values, buyers and market-share analysis. The subscription terms instead say Basic searches only the previous five years, so the archive may be plan-limited or the terms may be stale.
Tenders Direct searchable notice database ↗Tenders Direct competitor tracker ↗Tenders Direct subscription terms ↗Search, award history and competitor views can be filtered by buyer and show buying relationships, but reviewed first-party material does not describe canonical buyer records, authority aliases, departmental hierarchies, buyer identifiers or merge-quality controls. Buyer pages and filters therefore do not establish a resolved cross-notice buyer entity layer.
Tenders Direct competitor tracker ↗Tenders Direct searchable database ↗Competitor Tracker builds named-business profiles from up to ten years of awards, showing buyer relationships, values, market share and alerts. No Companies House identifier, trading-name aliasing, subsidiary/group mapping or entity-resolution accuracy is described, so the feature is useful cross-award aggregation but not proven canonical supplier identity.
Tenders Direct competitor tracker ↗Advance Tender Alerts use published contract end dates to identify potential future opportunities 3, 6, 12 or 18 months ahead. This is a complete current higher-tier feature, but the provider correctly frames the records as potential rather than confirmed procurements and does not publish rules for extensions, early termination, framework call-offs or historical precision. Entitlement wording conflicts across current pages.
Tenders Direct advance tender alerts ↗Tenders Direct current plan table ↗Opportunity Manager supplies a durable pipeline with stages, tasks, deadlines, documents and team ownership, while separately contracted bid-writing and bid-management consultants analyse tender requirements, plan responses and review compliance. The reviewed software does not establish requirement-by-requirement extraction linked to gaps, reusable evidence, owners and readiness, so requirements planning remains adjacent/incomplete even though managed buyer-requirement handling is available.
Tenders Direct Opportunity Manager ↗Tenders Direct bid-writing service ↗Tenders Direct bid-management service ↗Opportunity Manager supports unlimited users, stages, tasks, deadlines and document storage across subscriptions. Integrate advertises Slack at Basic and Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier, Slack and Microsoft Teams in Complete; exports include PDF, Excel and CSV in relevant products. No public API schema, webhooks, rate limits or integration field maps were found.
Tenders Direct Opportunity Manager ↗Tenders Direct integrations ↗Tenders Direct competitor export ↗The provider says its alerts cover Find a Tender and positions its service as combining the named national and regional sources.
Tenders Direct Find a Tender guide ↗The provider names Contracts Finder among the UK procurement sources its comprehensive alert service is intended to consolidate.
Tenders Direct procurement-source guidance ↗The provider names Public Contracts Scotland as the Scottish national source in its procurement-source guidance and positions Tenders Direct as the consolidated UK service.
Tenders Direct procurement-source guidance ↗The provider names Sell2Wales as the Welsh national source in its procurement-source guidance and positions Tenders Direct as the consolidated UK service.
Tenders Direct procurement-source guidance ↗The provider's guidance calls the Northern Ireland source eSourcing NI/eTendersNI and positions Tenders Direct as the consolidated UK service.
Tenders Direct procurement-source guidance ↗