The Tussell alternative for suppliers who bid - which tender, and how to win it

Tussell is a UK public-sector market-intelligence platform. It consolidates spend, contract and framework data - including invoice-level spend and buyer contact details - so large suppliers, consultancies and analysts can size the market, benchmark competitors and target business development. It is strong at answering "what does the market look like". BidSquirrel is aimed at a different, more immediate job - finding the right live tenders, checking whether you qualify, and helping you win them - whether you have a bid team or you are the bid team.

They overlap on live-tender discovery, but they are built for different users and different jobs. Tussell is a whole-market data platform for analysts and business-development teams. BidSquirrel is win-enablement, at a price any supplier can reach: it scores each live tender to your business, runs a pass/fail eligibility check, drafts your bid with you and works out a price-to-win. If your job is market analysis and benchmarking, Tussell fits. If your job is winning the next contract, BidSquirrel fits.

Enterprise market-intelligence platforms are priced for large organisations that need whole-market analysis - Tussell's G-Cloud listing starts above £11,000 per licence per year. Most SMEs do not need to size a total addressable market; they need to know which buyers are worth pursuing and then win the work. BidSquirrel is built and priced for exactly that, at £49.99/mo, with buyer and competitor intelligence, fit-scoring, eligibility checks, how-to-win guidance and price-to-win costing.

Yes. You can see what any public body has awarded, which suppliers keep winning it, how contested their contracts are and how often they return to market - and, inside the product, all of that scoped to your own sectors and region alongside the competitors you are actually up against. Two honest limits: our award records come from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, so work awarded through other e-tendering portals leaves no trace, and we do not hold invoice-level spend. We publish both of those rather than leaving you to discover them.

For live opportunities, BidSquirrel scans major GB public-sector sources together - Find a Tender through the Central Digital Platform, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, and the low-value council quote portals such as ProContract that rarely reach the headline feeds. Where BidSquirrel differs is what it does with those tenders: it scores them to your business, tells you whether you qualify, and helps you win, rather than presenting the whole market as a dataset to analyse.

Market data tells you what has happened across the market: who spent what, who holds which framework, how spend is trending. Win-help is about a specific live tender in front of you: are you eligible, is it a strong fit for your business, what does the evaluator reward, and what price wins it. Tussell is excellent at the former. BidSquirrel is built for the latter - we draft it with you, score it against a panel, and cost it so you price to win.