Why it exists
Finding tenders is easy. Reading them all is the hard part.
Public tenders are published for free, in the open. The trouble is the volume. In Belgium alone, some 900 procurement notices are published every week, and most of them are not for you. Bidsight does the reading for you, in the trades you choose.
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Code-based alerts find tenders. They leave the reading to you.
“Thousands of tenders are published every week. The tools ask me to pick procurement codes from a list of nine thousand, then send me everything that matches. After a month I delete the alerts without reading them.”
The problem as a bidder might put it.Matching on codes goes wrong in two ways. First, buyers file their own notices under the wrong code. A hospital cleaning contract filed under “facility management” never reaches the cleaning company that filtered on “cleaning”. Second, the right code still does not mean a fit. It catches the €12M four-country framework you could never staff, right next to the €180k municipal contract you could win tomorrow. Both land in your inbox as “matches”.
In a small company, that sorting falls to the owner or the estimator. It eats the most expensive hours in the business and produces nothing. That is the work Bidsight takes off your hands.
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It reads the notices in your trades instead of matching on codes alone.
You describe your company in your own words, or paste your website, and pick your trades. Bidsight then reads the key details and the start of the description of every new call for competition in those trades published for your countries on TED and, for Belgium, on e-Procurement, and checks each one against your company description.
It goes further than keyword matching. Where the notice states them, it reads the award criteria, the selection criteria, the language the bid must be written in, and the size and duration of the contract. Those are the things an estimator checks before deciding whether to open the file. You get only the notices judged a realistic fit. Each one comes with the reason in plain language and, where the notice states it, with what you would have to submit or prove. Because the reason is shown, you can check a result quickly instead of taking a score on trust.
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Four things that set it apart
It knows what you do not do
The most useful question in the setup is “what should we never send you?”. Telling us what you do not do is what keeps the near-misses out of your inbox. In testing, none of the twelve software-development tenders reached an IT-services company, and each rejection was explained.
It sees the tender before it exists
Award notices say who won, when, and for how long. Add the duration to the signing date and you have the date the buyer will have to tender again. A four-year framework signed in 2022 comes up again in 2026, and when its award notice on TED states the signing date and the duration, Radar shows it to you ahead of time. These are estimates, not promises, but they can give you a head start.
It turns award notices into a call list
Roughly two thirds of award notices give the winner's email address. When a contract is too big for you to win as prime, the company that recently won it may need subcontractors to deliver it. Bidsight lists those winners and gives you the reason to call.
It runs on our own hardware
The reading happens on our own machines in Belgium, not through a third-party AI service. Your profile and your bid pipeline are never sent to an AI provider. Reading a notice costs us electricity rather than a per-word fee, which is why we can afford to read every new notice that matches your trades and countries.
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For companies that respond to public tenders.
Who it is for
Any company that responds to public tenders in the trades Bidsight covers, whether it is preparing its first bid or already runs a bid team. IT services, installers, HVAC, cleaning, catering, engineering consultancies, training providers, and the other trades you can pick when you set up a search. Bidsight tells you which notices fit, why, and, where the notice states it, what you must submit or prove. That is what a first bid needs, and what an experienced team rarely has time to dig out.
What it does not cover
Two things. Below the EU thresholds outside Belgium: TED carries the above-threshold contracts from every public buyer in 29 countries, and smaller national and local contracts elsewhere are not on it. And Belgian contracts under the national publication threshold, which buyers are not required to publish. If most of your work is there, we would rather tell you before a trial than after.
Bidsight reads the calls for competition in your trades from every public buyer: in Belgium on e-Procurement, from the national threshold up, and in 29 countries on TED, above the EU thresholds. Frequently asked questions →
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You can check every result against the official notice.
We do not quote you an accuracy percentage. Instead, every result shows the reason it was picked, with the official notice one click away. Automated reading can miss a notice or get one wrong. When it shows you one that does not fit, you can see that quickly, because the reasoning is right there.
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What it costs.
From €19 a month excluding VAT, with the first week free and no card needed. There are four plans, and they differ in what actually separates one person bidding alone from a bid team: searches, results, daily or weekly reading, countries, seats, history and how many runs you can start each day. We do not charge per notice read.
The price reflects our costs, not a discount. The reading runs on our own hardware, we pay no per-token fees, and we have no sales team. The price covers what it costs to run the service well, plus a margin. Plan →
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Built by a company that does local AI for a living.
Bidsight is built and run by EMT Technology SRL in Genappe, Belgium. We specialise in local AI, which means on-premise deployment and no cloud dependency. Bidsight applies the same principle to reading public tenders. The reading happens on our own hardware in Belgium, and your profile and pipeline are never sent to an AI provider.
You can see the same thinking in the rest of the choices. The interface comes in six languages, because Belgian buyers publish in three of them. Hosting is in Belgium. The privacy notice is written to be read. There is an export button and a delete button, and both work without you having to email anyone. Invoices go through Peppol, because Belgian B2B requires it. Bidsight itself is a tool that reads public tenders and tells you what it found and why, rather than a marketplace, a consultancy or a feed reseller. About us →
Bidsight reads the public tenders published for your trades and countries, on TED and on Belgium’s e-Procurement, and sends you only those it judges a realistic fit, with the reason for each.
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