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 comprehensive 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Structured pages — Tenders are organised by sector, contracting authority, and deadline, so you can browse what is relevant without wading through hundreds of notices.
- Free AI tools — Four 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
- Tender Brief Generator — Generate a plain-English breakdown of any tender's requirements
- 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.
Who Built This
TenderWatch was built by Bryan Collins, an Irish entrepreneur who also runs Vendors.ie (software comparison for Irish businesses). The goal is to give Irish SMEs the same procurement intelligence that larger firms take for granted.
Contact
Have a question, spotted a data issue, or want to suggest a feature?
- Email: hello@tenderwatch.ie