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By the time a tender is published, the company that wins it has often been talking to the client for months. Many of the clues are public before that, in regulators’ spending decisions, planning approvals and published pipelines. We read all of it, so you can see the work coming while there is still time to get in front of it.
1,113 LIVE PROJECTS · £475bn OF WORK, TRACKED
The firm already in the door helps shape what is being bought, meets the client and builds the relationship months before anything is published. By the time the tender appears, the buyer has often made up their mind. If you only start when the notice lands, you are bidding into someone else’s plan.
Regulators’ spending decisions, planning approvals for the biggest projects, the pipelines that frameworks publish: 59 sources, thousands of pages a year. The biggest contractors employ people to read them. Most of the supply chain does not.
Which sectors get busy next? Where is the money actually committed, rather than promised? Guess wrong and you spend a bid budget for nothing. Sit it out and you miss the work.
The live map shows every project, where it is and what stage it has reached, so you can see how much is happening in your regions and your trades. The sector charts show which sectors are getting busy and which are behind their targets, and a sector behind target usually has to spend to catch up. The Wire, our free morning email, keeps you current.
Open the map →The full record behind every project: its value, its stage, what happens next, the date we checked it and where the figure came from. So you can make your approach when a project gets planning approval or its funding is signed off, not when the tender appears.
The background you would otherwise build yourself before deciding whether to bid: what the client needs, how they buy, who holds the work today and who else will go for it. Sector reports covering the pipeline, the players and how the work is let. A calendar of what lands when, a year ahead and further. Exports for your own systems and pipeline reviews.
Subscribe →A Capture Brief on one opportunity, a study of a sector you want to enter, or a standing watch on your patch. We agree the scope in one conversation and fix the price before we start.
Work with us →Monday: The Wire flags a sector on the move. Tuesday: the sector charts confirm it is getting busier, and the map shows three projects in your region getting close to buying. Wednesday: the project records tell you who is behind each one, what stage it is at and what happens next, with the source and the date. Thursday: your call to the client is about their project, not your brochure. Friday: you decide whether to go for it on evidence, with the source for every fact.
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The other way round. The big contractors already employ people to read these sources. The subscription gives you the same for £99 a month or £995 a year. And the map and charts show where the main contractors will be buying next, which is your pipeline too.
No. They tell you a tender has been published, which is late in the race. We follow each project through its whole life: regulators’ spending decisions, planning approvals and published pipelines, then procurement and construction, each with its source. See the full comparison →
27 sectors across the UK and Ireland, and every project is pinned to a place. Filter the map to your patch and see for yourself. That view is free.
Every figure shows where it came from and the date we checked it, so you can use it in a bid review as it stands. How we verify →
Time. Your team spends the first fortnight of every pursuit building the background from scratch: what the client needs, how they buy, who holds the work, who else is chasing it. Here it is already done, with sources and dates, for every project on the map. They start on the strategy, not the research.
Tell us what you are bidding for, or which sector you are watching. We will point you to the report that covers it, or price up a piece of work.
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