Terms of use

1. Who we are, and what these terms cover

Uncrewed Tenders is operated by Aerolytica Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”). These terms govern your use of the uncrewedtenders.com website and the Uncrewed Tenders platform behind it (together, the “service”).

Operator

Aerolytica Ltd, trading as Uncrewed Tenders

Registered in

England and Wales, company number 16738291

VAT number

GB518335883

Registered office

Suite A, 82 James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 7DE, United Kingdom

Correspondence address

3 High Meadow, West Broyle, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 3FU, United Kingdom

ICO registration

ZC064093

Contact

privacy@aerolytica.com

By signing up, signing in, or using the service, you agree to these terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and “you” means that organisation.

This is a business service. It is offered to organisations bidding for or researching public contracts, and not to consumers. Nothing in these terms affects rights that cannot be excluded by law.

2. What Uncrewed Tenders is — and what it is not

Uncrewed Tenders is an aggregator and index. We collect procurement notices that public bodies and procurement authorities have already published, assess each one for how likely it is to concern uncrewed systems, and present the result in a form you can search, filter and share with your team.

We are not, and do not hold ourselves out as:

• The official source. We do not publish tenders, run competitions, receive bids, or act for any contracting authority.
• Affiliated with or endorsed by any publisher. The procurement authorities and portals whose notices we index have no involvement in, and give no approval of, this service.
• A complete record. We index what our sources publish, in the countries and time period described on our coverage page. Opportunities exist that we do not carry.
• An adviser. See section 5.

3. Check every notice against its official source

Information in Uncrewed Tenders is a signpost, not the contract. Before you rely on any notice — and always before you bid — read the original published notice and the tender documents from the contracting authority.

This is not a formality. Information reaching us can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, for reasons largely outside our control:

• Publishers amend and withdraw notices. Deadlines move, scope changes, competitions are cancelled. We collect updates on a schedule, so there is always a window in which our copy is behind the source.
• Fields are frequently missing at source. Many notices state no deadline, no value, or no product codes. Where a field is empty here, it is usually empty there — but a blank in our copy is never evidence that a requirement does not exist.
• Sources fail. A feed can be unavailable, rate-limited, or return an incomplete answer. We detect and retry what we can, and we cannot guarantee that everything published on a given day reached us that day.
• Values, dates and currencies are reproduced, not audited. We map what the publisher provided. We do not verify it.
• Some notices are translated by machine. Where a notice was published in another language, we may show an automated English translation, marked as such, with the published wording alongside it. A translation is our best effort, not a certified rendering; the notice as published, in its original language, governs.
• Only the official notice has legal effect. Deadlines, eligibility, requirements and the terms of any competition are set by the contracting authority in its own documents. Where our copy and the official notice differ, the official notice governs — always.

You are responsible for verifying anything you act on. We are not liable for a missed deadline, a missed opportunity, an ineligible or unsuccessful bid, or any other loss arising from reliance on information in the service that was not first checked against its source.

4. Automated assessment, and what a score means

Every notice is read and scored by an automated system. A score is our opinion of likely relevance to an uncrewed systems supplier. It is not a statement of fact about the procurement, a prediction that you would win it, or advice that you should bid.

Automated assessment is imperfect in both directions. Relevant procurements are sometimes scored low or filtered out before they reach the list; irrelevant ones sometimes score high. We measure how often this happens, we will tell you the figures if you ask, and we do not represent the system as complete or infallible. The reasoning shown beside each result exists so you can judge it for yourself rather than take it on trust.

Categories, platform classifications, country attribution and value figures are derived from source data and carry the same caveats.

5. Not advice

Nothing in the service is legal, procurement, regulatory, financial or investment advice, and nothing in it is a recommendation to bid, not to bid, or to price a bid in any particular way. Decisions about which opportunities to pursue, how to respond, and whether you meet eligibility or compliance requirements are commercial judgements that remain entirely yours. Take professional advice where you need it.

6. Accounts, workspaces and seats

• Access is granted by approval or by invitation from a workspace owner. We may decline a request without giving a reason.
• An account belongs to one person. Sign-in links are personal and must not be shared, forwarded or used by anyone else. You are responsible for activity under your account and for the security of the identity it signs in with — the inbox the links go to, or the Microsoft or Google account used to sign in. We use no passwords, so control of that identity is control of the account.
• Your workspace has a seat limit. Owners can add and remove colleagues within it; we can change it on request or as agreed commercially.
• A workspace owner can see and manage the workspace’s membership, and everything recorded in the workspace — notes, statuses and saved searches — is visible to its members. Treat it as shared, not private.
• Tell us promptly at privacy@aerolytica.com if you believe an account has been compromised.

7. Acceptable use

You may use the service for your own organisation’s business purposes. You must not:

• Scrape, crawl, bulk-export or systematically copy the service or its contents, or access it by automated means other than features we provide for that purpose;
• Resell, sublicense, republish or otherwise make the service or a substantial part of its contents available to anyone outside your organisation;
• Use the service, or data taken from it, to build or train a competing product, dataset or model;
• Share credentials or sign-in links, or otherwise let people who are not authorised users of your workspace use your access;
• Attempt to gain access to another workspace’s data, to administrative functions, or to any part of the system you have not been granted;
• Probe, scan or test the security of the service without our prior written permission, or interfere with its operation or place unreasonable load on it;
• Reverse engineer or attempt to derive the underlying methods of the service, except to the extent that restriction is unenforceable by law;
• Enter anything unlawful, defamatory, infringing or containing another person’s personal data unnecessarily into notes or other free-text fields; or
• Use the service for any unlawful purpose, or in breach of any applicable sanctions or export control.

We may suspend or withdraw access where we reasonably believe these rules are being broken, and where the breach threatens the service or another customer we may do so without notice.

8. Your content

Notes, statuses, saved searches, preferences and anything else your team records stay yours. You grant us the licence we need to host, store, process, back up and display it in order to provide the service, and for no other purpose.

It is not shared between workspaces. One customer’s bidding decisions are never visible to another, and are never included in anything we send to anyone else. We may use aggregated, anonymised usage information — which cannot identify you, your organisation or what you are bidding on — to operate and improve the service.

9. Integrations you connect

If you connect a third-party system such as a CRM, a team chat channel (Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat), or an AI assistant reading through our API, you authorise us to send data to it on your instructions. Two consequences worth being explicit about:

• Once data is in your CRM it is governed by your relationship with that provider, not by these terms, and it stays there if you stop using Uncrewed Tenders. We push data out; we do not delete or retract what we have sent.
• You are responsible for the access you grant us to that system, and for making sure you are entitled to grant it.

10. Availability and changes to the service

We aim to keep the service available and up to date, but we do not currently offer a service level agreement. Access may be interrupted by maintenance, by faults, or by problems at the sources we depend on — a publisher’s feed being unavailable is outside our control and can delay or reduce what we collect.

We develop the service continuously and may change, add or withdraw features. Where a change materially reduces what you receive, we will give you reasonable notice.

11. Charges

Where access is provided free of charge or for evaluation, we may withdraw or change it at any time. Where charges apply, they are those separately agreed with you in writing, together with any payment terms in that agreement, and those terms take precedence over this section to the extent they conflict.

Prices are quoted exclusive of VAT unless we say otherwise. VAT is charged in addition at the applicable rate, and our VAT registration number is GB518335883.

12. Ending it

You can stop using the service at any time and ask us to close your account. We may end or suspend access on reasonable notice, or immediately where you are in material breach of these terms or where we are required to by law.

On closure, access ends and your workspace data is deleted or anonymised in line with our privacy policy. Ask before you close the account if you want an export of your notes and statuses.

13. Intellectual property

The service — the platform, the interface, our assessments, scores, categories and reasoning, and the way the collection is assembled — belongs to us or our licensors. You get a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use it while your access lasts, for the purposes described in section 7.

The underlying notices belong to the bodies that published them and are used under the terms and licences those publishers apply. Nothing here transfers any right in that material to you beyond your use of the service, and your own use of it must respect those publishers’ terms.

14. Warranties and liability

The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law we exclude all implied warranties, and we do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that it contains every relevant opportunity, or that any information in it is accurate, complete or current — see sections 3 and 4, which describe exactly why.

Subject to the paragraph below, we are not liable for:

• loss of profit, revenue, contracts, anticipated savings, business or opportunity;
• a bid not submitted, submitted late, or unsuccessful;
• an opportunity not surfaced, surfaced late, or scored in a way you disagree with;
• loss or corruption of data, other than our failure to take reasonable care of it; or
• any indirect or consequential loss.

Our total liability arising out of or in connection with the service, in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, is limited in aggregate to the greater of the amount you paid us for the service in the twelve months before the claim arose, or £100.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else where limitation is prohibited.

15. Confidentiality and privacy

Each of us will keep the other’s non-public information confidential and use it only for the purposes of the service. How we handle personal data is set out in our privacy policy, which forms part of these terms.

16. General

• Changes. We may update these terms. The date at the top changes when we do, and we will tell you about anything material before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the change.
• Transfer. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our consent. We may transfer ours to a successor of our business, on notice to you.
• Third parties. Nobody other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.
• Severability. If any part is unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
• Whole agreement. These terms, our privacy policy and any written commercial agreement between us are the whole agreement about the service.
• Governing law. These terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@aerolytica.com. Questions about personal data: privacy@aerolytica.com.