How it works

365,369 notices in.
4,204 opportunities out.

The hard part of public procurement is not finding notices — anyone can download thousands. It is working out which of them are actually about your business, in time to do something about it. That is the whole of what Uncrewed Tenders does.

1Collect

Everything published, from the people who published it

Notices come from the official publishers themselves, never scraped from a second-hand aggregator, and they arrive every day, overnight. You see a procurement when the market does — not a week later, when somebody has got round to re-typing it.

The part nobody thinks about until it bites is knowing when a collection was incomplete. A feed can hand back a partial answer that looks exactly like a quiet week, and a system that takes that at face value loses a month of contracts without anything appearing to go wrong. Ours refuses to record a collection as finished unless it can show it got everything.

  • The whole life of a contract — from early notice to award
  • History back to August 2024
  • Gaps detected and retried rather than silently accepted
2Assess

Every notice is read, not scanned for words

Keyword alerts are how most people do this, and they fail in both directions at once. They fire on “drone” in a catering contract for a venue that happens to ban them, and they miss a genuine opportunity that says “remotely piloted aircraft system” or “uncrewed surface vessel” and never uses the obvious word at all.

We use AI to read the full text of a notice — what is being bought, by whom, and what a supplier would actually have to do — and to judge it the way someone on your bid team would, if they had time to read every one. It returns four things:

A relevance score
How likely this is to be real work for an uncrewed systems supplier, so the strongest sits at the top of your list and the marginal is still there to look at if you want it.
A category
Services, hardware, counter-UAS, advisory, enabling, or a framework agreement — so a manufacturer and a survey operator can filter to quite different things.
Its reasoning
A sentence saying why it scored the way it did, shown on every result. A score you cannot argue with is a score you cannot rely on.
What it asks for
The airframe, sensors, quantities, operating conditions and certifications the tender states — from the notice and, where the buyer attaches them, its documents. Tell us what your company flies and holds, and each notice then says which of those requirements you meet. An explanation, not a second score.
3Deliver

Into your workspace, your inbox and your CRM

Results land in a list you can filter by score, country, stage, market, type of uncrewed system and what the tender asks for, and search in plain words. Your team marks each one — reviewing, bidding, submitted, won, lost, passed — with shared notes and, if you like, your own respond-by date. A view you use often can be named and saved, and new matches then arrive by email on the cadence you choose; a daily or weekly digest gathers what changed for you in one message.

Those marks drive everything else. Deadline reminders go to each person individually, so one colleague reading a reminder cannot silence it for the rest. A marked tender is watched from then on: if its deadline moves, its value is revised or a clarification is published, you are told what changed, in plain words. If you connect HubSpot, marking something creates a deal — and only a person marking it ever does, never a machine score, because an integration that dumps hundreds of auto-generated deals into a pipeline gets switched off in its first week. And a team dashboard gathers everything flagged — grouped by stage, named to whoever made the call, with a comment thread on each — so the decision and the discussion stay in one place.

What lands in your list

The whole life of a contract.

Most suppliers find out about a tender when it opens, which is usually too late to shape it. Carrying every stage means you can see work coming — and see who took it afterwards.

Before the tender

Market engagements you can still shape, told apart from pipeline notices announcing work to come

Live tenders

Open competitions with their deadlines and values

Frameworks and DPS

Multi-supplier agreements, including ones where uncrewed work is one lot of many

Awards

Who won, and for how much — so you know who you are up against, with records in some markets back to 2013

Being straight about it

Where it is weakest.

It is not perfect, and we measure how imperfect. Accuracy is checked against real procurements read and labelled by hand, so the figure means something. We know which kinds of contract it handles well and which it does not, we can tell you both, and we would rather you heard it from us than found out in month three. Ask, and you will get the numbers.

Some contracts are a genuine judgement call. A broad framework listing drone work as one of twenty specialisms is arguably relevant and arguably not — experienced people disagree about those, and no scoring system settles an argument humans are still having. They are scored, shown, and left for you to decide, rather than quietly dropped to make the figures look better.

It finds opportunities; it does not write your bid. Uncrewed Tenders tells you what exists, how relevant it looks and when it closes. Whether it is worth your time is a commercial judgement, and that stays with you.

Want to see it against your own pipeline?

The quickest test is the one you already know the answer to: tell us a contract you won or lost in the last year and we will show you what Uncrewed Tenders made of it.