How it works
Find it. Qualify it. Win it.
BidSquirrel is the whole journey, not just an AI score: it watches major GB public-sector sources, scores each tender to you, checks you qualify, shows you how to win, then builds the full draft with you from your own evidence and stress-tests it against the criteria before you submit. Here's the end-to-end.
The bidding cockpit
Everything in one place.
We score every tender against your service line and filter out what is not a fit, so you only see the work worth your time - your matches, deadlines, market intel and bid pipeline, all on one screen. Here's the cockpit you land in.
Dashboard
Your bidding at a glance - matches, deadlines and usage in one place.
This week
This week we scored 142 tenders against your service line and filtered out 138 that were not a fit - so you only see the 4 worth your time.
In your market this week
Open intel →What is moving in your market this week.
Your matches
View all →This month
Open calendar →3 deadlines in the next 7 days.
Your usage this period
Manage plan →Bid pipeline
2 of 3 wonClosing soon
Calendar →- 9dDaily Cleaning - Acute Hospital Sites
- 12dCleaning & Caretaking Framework 2026-2030
Quick actions
Example - your real matches are scored to your own service line.
Why now
Winnable local work goes unbid - on your doorstep.
The Government has set a target of over £7.4bn a year in direct public spending with small businesses by 2028, and most of it moves at council level - the everyday work an SME can realistically win. But most small firms never bid: the notices are spread across a dozen portals, and the local council work is the easiest of all to miss. That is a lot of winnable work, close to home, going to whoever finds it first.
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We watch the major sources, so you don’t have to
Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and the ProContract council portals - scanned every day into one feed, right down to the low-value local-authority work the big incumbents skip. No more trawling six websites.
Find a Tender · Contracts Finder · Public Contracts Scotland · ProContract
Every major GB source, scanned daily into one feed - including the low-value council work most tools miss.
We score every tender to your business
Not keyword alerts - a real read of each opportunity against your capabilities, scale, location and growth goals, ranked Strong, Fair or Development (an on-strategy stretch). You see a shortlist worth your time, with the reasoning behind every verdict - and the more you bank in your Evidence Vault, the sharper those scores get.
We tell you why it fits - and the regime it runs under
Open any tender and you get its fit score with written reasoning, the procurement regime it falls under (Procurement Act above or below threshold, light-touch, NHS PSR, or the devolved rules), value, deadline and a plain-English steer - all in one place. In the five sectors we cover deepest, that read is sector-experienced too: it raises the accreditations and evaluation patterns a specialist bid lead in that field would recognise, not a keyword checklist.
Daily commercial cleaning is your core self-delivered service, and the CPV codes map precisely to your proven £540k public win for a Greater Manchester multi-academy trust...
We check you can even bid, before you sink a day in
On your top scored matches (free) you get a can-you-bid read and what to fix - insurance, certifications, turnover, and the conditions buyers commonly gate on. Pro extends that to every match, full bid readiness, and ITT-checked conditions when guidance already has them.
We build the full draft with you, from your own evidence
Pick a tender and the system builds the whole response, answer by answer. It works out which regime applies, recalls your Evidence Vault - your banked insurances, accreditations, case studies and standard SQ / PSQ answers - and drafts each answer from what is genuinely yours. Then it marks its own draft against the criteria, refines the weak sections, and strips out the generic, AI-sounding prose a panel would mark down. It hands back the finished draft, the exact facts for you to confirm (never invented), and the supporting-documents checklist. You confirm the facts and own the final words.
We will mobilise across the head office and both depots within [you confirm: weeks], led by [you confirm: manager]. Our TUPE plan transfers the incumbent team on [you confirm: date], preserving terms, drawing on your 14-school MAT mobilisation…
- • Lead with the NHS TUPE transfer as a direct comparable.
- • Cover all three sites, rotas and a day-one timeline.
- • Cite the 14-school MAT mobilisation and ISO 9001.
We build social value that scores, not a tickbox
Social value can carry 10 to 30 percent of the marks, and a generic "we support local communities" line wins almost none of them. We read how your buyer actually scores it - the Social Value Model method statement or a monetised TOMs return - write in the right nation's language, and climb each commitment from activity to a measured outcome anchored to the delivery area's real need. We only ever claim what is genuinely additional to your business as usual, and every figure you can't yet evidence comes back flagged for you to confirm - never invented.
The PPN 002 10% weighting binds central government only - use the weighting the ITT actually states.
One apprenticeship recruited from the delivery area, supported to a completed Level 2 qualification within the contract term - with [you confirm: the local college partner].
Local need. Higher-than-average youth unemployment in the delivery area - confirm the local figure.
Measurement. Qualification completion + destination, reported quarterly as a method-statement KPI.
Why it's additional. Over and above your usual one-a-year intake, tied to this contract - not business-as-usual re-badged.
We never invent numbers or a local statistic - confirm these to make the commitment scoreable.
As a local firm you can name the neighbourhood and the college - a place-based commitment a distant national bidder can't credibly make.
We check it before it goes
A final, panel-style review of your draft against the scoresheet: predicted marks per section, the gaps still to close, and the unsupported claims to fix - so you submit the strongest version, not the first one.
Predicted marks · gaps to close · claims to fix
A panel-style read of your draft before you submit, so you fix the weak sections while you still can.
We keep you on track after you bid
Deadlines, decision dates and your own milestones in one calendar. And a renewals radar that flags incumbent contracts coming up for re-tender - so you can engage the buyer months before it’s advertised.
Engage the buyer before it’s advertised.
Under the bonnet
One system, not bolted-together tools.
Those steps run on one engine, built for UK public procurement. Your inputs go in; two pre-checks (matching and eligibility) decide whether to bid, then one bidding engine - bid-build, social value and pricing, all marked and lifted by an assessor and a refinement consultant - does the work on an expert procurement core; finished outputs come back. That core has two sides that work together: it classifies the procurement regime (Procurement Act above or below threshold, light-touch, NHS PSR, or the devolved rules), and - for the sectors we cover deepest, Construction, Cleaning & FM, Healthcare & Care, IT & Digital and Security Services - it reads each tender through a sector-experienced lens, raising the standards, accreditations and evaluation patterns a specialist bid lead in that field would recognise, with the standards it names kept current and re-checked monthly. Outside those five the discipline is identical - same regime classification, same evaluation doctrine, same refusal to cite a standard it cannot verify. The difference is in the sector: those five are unusually codified, so there is a deeper library of named standards to hold a bid against. Fewer named standards in a sector means fewer to cite, not less care taken. And every bid you run banks more into your Evidence Vault - so the whole thing sharpens the more you use it.
Pro unlocks the whole machine: eligibility, the full bid build, social value, pricing and the value-for-money case, your Evidence Vault and the shared ITT. 30 days free, no card, then £49.99/mo.
Your inputs
BidSquirrel connectors
The engine room
Bidding engine
What you get
Every bid banks more into your Vault - drafts get faster and the moat compounds.
Your journey
Find it free. Win it on Pro.
Always know exactly where you are, and what's free: browsing, your top matches scored, and can-you-bid checks on those matches are free. Adding your business also starts a 30-day Pro trial — the full toolkit, no card.
Sign up
Free account, no card — takes seconds
- Browse live tenders from major GB sources
- Save & shortlist tenders
- Guides & portal finder
- ‘Your area’ snapshot
- Renewals radar & who-won data
Add your business profile
Unlocks free + starts your 30-day Pro trial
Free — kept
- Your top matches scored (Strong/Fair/Dev)
- Can-you-bid checks on those matches
- 1 preview bid build a month
- Everything from browsing
30-day Pro trial — no card
- Every match scored, with the reasoning
- The full bid built with you
- ITT analysis vs the real scoresheet
- Costed price + value-for-money case
- Social value engine
- Full bid readiness, calendar & Vault
Free, or go Pro
After your 30-day trial — your choice
Keep Pro
- Add a card — £49.99/mo
- Everything above continues
- Cancel any time, one click
Or stay free
- Browse + scored top matches stay
- Can-you-bid checks on those matches stay
- Your monthly preview build stays
- The Pro-only tools pause
- Profile, saves & Vault all kept
Browse and see your top matches scored — free, no card. Adding your business also starts a 30-day Pro trial (no card); a card is only ever needed to keep Pro after it ends. See Pro
Built by people who have sat on both sides of UK procurement - winning bids and scoring them. The engine is regime-aware (PA23, NHS PSR, Scotland, Wales), regression-tested against expert scenarios, and its sector standards are re-verified monthly. Honest about scope: the standards library runs deepest in the five most codified sectors, and the same discipline applies to every one - and it never invents a figure.
The deliberate difference
We write it with you. Not for you.
Our AI is built to assess like a UK procurement panel - regime-aware, evaluator-calibrated, regression-tested against expert bid scenarios - and pointed at the right job: writing to the scoresheet and sharpening your real strengths, not churning out generic prose. How the AI works →
Stop scrolling portals.
Start winning work.
Free, no card - browse live tenders from major GB sources and see your top matches scored with can-you-bid checks. Add your business to start a 30-day Pro trial (no card): every match scored, full bid readiness and the full bid built with you, then £49.99/mo to stay on Pro.