About TenderWatch

TenderWatch makes Irish public procurement accessible to small and medium businesses. We pull open tender notices from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the official EU procurement journal that all Irish contracting authorities are legally required to publish to, and present them in a clean, searchable format.

Why This Exists

TED and eTenders.gov.ie are full platforms, but they are hard to navigate if you are not a procurement specialist. Notices are written in dense legal language, filtering is limited, and there is no easy way to find out what is relevant to your specific business. Larger companies employ bid managers to track this. TenderWatch bridges that gap for everyone else.

How It Works

1. Daily collection, Every morning, we fetch the latest Irish tender notices from the TED API, capturing new opportunities and updating the status of existing ones.
2. AI classification, Each tender is analysed by AI (Claude by Anthropic) to assign it to a sector, extract plain-English keywords, estimate value ranges, and generate a concise summary.
3. Structured pages, Tenders are organised by sector, contracting authority, and deadline, so you can browse what is relevant without wading through hundreds of notices.
4. Free AI tools, Three interactive tools help you go from "found a tender" to "ready to bid":

• Tender Matcher, Describe your business and get matched to suitable open tenders
• Bid Readiness Checker, Get a readiness score and preparation checklist for any tender
• Jargon Decoder, Decode procurement language into plain English

Data Accuracy

All tender data originates from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the official EU procurement journal operated by the Publications Office of the European Union. Summaries and classifications are generated by AI and may contain errors. Always verify the full details on the official TED notice before making any bid decisions. We link directly to the original notice on every tender page.

TenderWatch is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Office of Government Procurement, eTenders.gov.ie, or the Publications Office of the European Union.

Public datasets

TenderWatch publishes its reference data as open JSON endpoints. Consultants, RSS readers, journalists, and AI agents can pull these directly. Each spine is regenerated on its own cadence from a primary source and served fresh from the published page.

Attribution is appreciated but not required. If you build something with these feeds, I would love to see it — say hello.

Contact

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