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Worked Examples

Six questions people arrive with, and what the platform returns for each

Finding open notices is the part everyone starts with. The work that decides whether you bid — who already holds the contract, what they were paid, when it comes back, and whether you can reach the buyer at all — sits in the award record. These are worked examples of both, with the figures each one returns.

We are early, and no customer has agreed to be named yet, so nothing here is dressed up as one. Every number is either a live platform total or a query we ran ourselves and dated. Why that is, and what changes it.

Contract award analysis on screen 13.5M awards on record
134,137 open tenders & grants 13.5M awarded contracts on record 586 sources across 180 countries 33 profession lenses, no keywords required
Example 1 — Award Intelligence

“Who actually wins in my market, and where do I sit?”

A feed of open notices tells you what is being bought this week. It cannot tell you that one supplier has taken 594 of the last decade's contracts in your category, or that the buyer you have been chasing has bought from the same firm eleven times. That is in the awarded record, and it is a different question to search.

What you set

A market scope, once: country, the tags that describe your product line, an award window, and a value ceiling so a single national framework does not swamp the picture. The scope is remembered and every report inherits it.

What you get

Four aggregates over that scope — total awards, total awarded value, distinct supplier companies, distinct buyers — then a supplier leaderboard, buyer concentration, the record by year, and the return-to-market curve. Any bar, tile or row drills through to the awards behind it.

Where you appear

Name your own company and the page opens on your position rather than an anonymous ranking. If you sell through partners and never bid in your own name, it credits the awards your brand is named in to the partner that won them.

A run we made, in full

Canadian imaging equipment — ultrasound, x-ray, CT and MRI — awarded from 2014 onward, capped at CAD 500M so a national framework cannot distort the totals. Measured against the live API on 3 August 2026:

Awards in scope
7,814
Total awarded
CAD 6.41bn
Supplier companies
2,271
Buying organisations
441
  • 2,271 companies from 2,615 registration rows. The same firm registers under several entities and in both official languages. They are folded to one company before counting, so the leaderboard and the total cannot disagree.
  • Return to market: 99 contracts in 2026, 64 in 2027, 71 in 2028, 69 in 2029. Published contract end dates first; projected ends are labelled as such.
  • Drilling the leading supplier family returned 594 awards — the same figure as the bar that was clicked. Every mark on the page is a query you can open.

Scope, method and date shown because the corpus is retagged continuously: the same query an hour later returns a slightly larger total. We publish the run, not a rounded claim about it.

In the product on Enterprise, at /awards/. Enterprise also includes the analyst work behind a market like this one: tuning the classification to your product categories and mapping which partners carry your line.

Example 2 — Channel Report

“I sell through distributors, so I never appear in my own market data”

A manufacturer whose product reaches public buyers through dealers and integrators has close to zero awards under its own name. Read literally, the record says the company has no market presence. What it actually says is that somebody else does the bidding.

Every company, not only the winners

The report lists each company competing in your scope, including those that bid and lost. A rival who never wins is still a rival who is present.

A role for each one

Manufacturer, distributor, service organisation, or a purchasing group sitting on the buy side. The role is inferred from award behaviour rather than stated by the source, and the report says so on the page.

Brand-level totals

Where a contract names your product, the value is attributed to the brand as well as the bidder, with a drill-down to the awards it came from — so you can see which partners are carrying you and which are carrying someone else.

In the product on Enterprise, at /reports/channel/.

Example 3 — Renewals Report

“When does the incumbent's contract come back to market?”

By the time a five-year contract is republished as a notice, the specification is written and the incumbent has been talking to the buyer for months. The useful moment is a year or two earlier. That moment is derivable from the award record.

Soonest first

Buyer, incumbent, last recorded value, and the date it is expected back — ordered by how close it is, so the top of the list is the work you can still influence.

The basis on every row

A published contract end date is used whenever the source carries one. Otherwise the date is projected from the service life of that category of purchase, and the row is labelled with which cycle was applied and which way it errs. Estimates are opt-in, never mixed in silently.

Watches

Save a scope as a watch and get an email when a contract inside it comes within range, instead of re-running the report and hoping you remember to.

In the product on Enterprise, at /reports/renewals/.

Example 4 — Profession Lenses

“I'm a web agency. I am not a list of keywords.”

Keyword setup is where most tender subscriptions quietly fail. Too narrow and you miss the contract that used a different word for the same thing; too broad and you get a daily digest nobody opens. Worse, the keyword that describes your business is usually the one every buyer uses for something else.

A lens replaces that. You answer “I am a…” and “where?”, and the feed is built from the classification behind the corpus rather than from string matching. There are currently 33 of them, covering the built environment, ICT, health, energy, water, transport, research and the creative sector.

A lens is a category, not a word

The Digital / Web Agency lens bundles web and creative, software development and cloud hosting, because that is what an agency actually sells. No phrasing on your side has to match the buyer's.

Composed lenses

Some roles are a sector and a kind of work. Public Health Researcher / M&E is public health combined with research and evaluation, so it returns studies and evaluations rather than clinic supply contracts.

Public before you sign up

Every lens has an open page with live counts, and a per-country variant. You can see what a lens returns for your market before creating an account.

Free, and the first thing the signup asks you. Start at Get Started; keywords remain available on top for anyone who wants them.

Example 5 — Grants Alongside Tenders

“Half my pipeline is funded, not procured”

Research groups, NGOs and consultancies working in development, health and climate compete for both: a ministry procures the evaluation, a donor funds the programme. Watching those in two different tools means the same team is doing the same triage twice, in two formats.

One pipeline, two instruments

3,884 open grant rounds sit beside the tender corpus, in the same feed, with the same filters, lenses and alerts. You can look at either or both.

Scope donors globally

Funders code their calls to headquarters, not to the country the money lands in. A tight regional filter starves a grant feed, so the grant side is built to be read with a wide geography and narrowed by lens instead.

Deadlines that behave

Rounds without a published deadline are still open rounds. They stay in the feed rather than being filtered out by a missing date.

Free tier includes grant browsing. See Grants or go straight to Browse Grants.

Example 6 — Response Workspace

“Found it. Now I have four days and five amendments to read.”

For a small team the binding constraint is rarely discovery — it is that qualifying one opportunity properly costs a day, and there are six of them open. The workspace takes an opportunity from documents to a bid decision.

1. Documents indexed

The RFP, the annexes and every amendment, read together as one body of documents. Upload them or point it at the source page.

2. Requirements extracted

Mandatory criteria, clearances, volumes and deadlines, each carrying the passage it was taken from.

3. Questions answered

“Did any amendment move the closing date?” answered in seconds, with the documents cited.

4. A draft, or a no-bid

Response sections drafted against your company profile and templates, exported to Word or PDF. Or a reasoned no-bid naming the criteria you fail.

Enterprise from $59/seat/month includes unlimited workspaces, fully set up for your team. More at AI Workspace.

Which of these is you?

The examples above map to plans as follows. Everything discovery-side is free or cheap; the analyst layer is where Enterprise starts.

If your question isStart withPlan
“What is open in my field, in my country?”Pick a lens and a countryFree
“I keep finding things too late.”Same-day alerts instead of a weekly final-14-days digestStarter $12
“My team and my CRM need to see the same pipeline.”Sheets, Excel and CRM delivery, up to 3 seatsPro $29
“Qualifying and drafting is the bottleneck.”The response workspaceEnterprise from $59/seat, 3 seats minimum
“Who holds these contracts, and when do they end?”Award, channel and renewals reportsEnterprise
“I sell through partners and can't see myself in the data.”Channel mapping, built for your lineEnterprise

And the parts nobody writes a case study about

  • Delivery that fits the workflow you have — email digest, Google Sheets, Excel, or a CRM webhook into HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or Zoho. CSV and PDF export on Pro.
  • Language filtering — a multilingual corpus is only useful if you can restrict it to the languages your team actually bids in.
  • Served-country awareness — a notice published by a donor in Washington for work in Malawi is a Malawi opportunity, and is filtered as one.
  • An intelligence panel on the notice itself — previous awards for the same buyer and category, on the tender detail page, so the history is where the decision is made.
  • A deadline calendar, with export, so closing dates land in the calendar the team already keeps.

Why there are no customer logos on this page

Because we do not yet have the ones worth showing. TenderPipe is early: the award intelligence layer described above shipped weeks ago, not years. Publishing invented percentages, or real ones stripped of their context, would be easy and would tell you nothing about whether the tool works for your market.

So the standard on this page is: a figure is either a live total from the platform, refreshed automatically, or a query we ran against the live API with the scope and the date attached. The Canada imaging run in Example 1 is the second kind. You can reproduce it.

If you want to be one of the named ones: we take on a small number of design partners per market. You get the market baseline built for your categories and the classification tuned to your product line; we get to learn a market properly, and to publish the result with your permission when there is something real to publish.

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