Real stories
We built TenderSource because we know the frustration.
Every week, thousands of business development and sales professionals across Europe waste hours digging through TED for relevant tenders. These are their stories — and how TenderSource changes them.
The Business Development Manager
At a mid-sized German IT consulting firm
Spends 4+ hours every week on TED, fighting CPV code filters and navigating a UI that wasn't built for non-procurement specialists.
Search results are too noisy. Dozens of irrelevant notices for every relevant one — and no way to tell which tenders the firm could realistically win.
Deadlines slip through the cracks. By the time a relevant tender surfaces in the weekly manual review, submission windows are already closing.
Describes the firm's services in plain language and gets a ranked list of matching tenders in seconds — no CPV expertise required.
Saves a shortlist with one click and exports a clean PDF for the management presentation. Bid/no-bid decisions happen in the pipeline meeting, not at a spreadsheet.
Automated daily alerts catch new tenders overnight. Relevant opportunities are waiting in the inbox every morning — deadlines never missed.
The Bid Manager
Managing tenders for multiple clients across sectors
Runs separate TED searches for each client and sector, each with its own saved filter set. Maintaining these across accounts is a part-time job in itself.
Tracks submission deadlines in spreadsheets — one per client. Cross-referencing notices against client eligibility is manual, error-prone, and time-consuming.
Duplicates discovery work because there's no central shortlist. The same notice gets found, evaluated, and discarded multiple times across the team.
Sets up per-sector alert watches for each client in minutes. TenderSource runs the searches automatically and surfaces only what's relevant.
All results centralized in one dashboard with tender values, buyer countries, and submission deadlines visible at a glance — no more spreadsheet juggling.
Saves and exports shortlists per client from the same account. The whole team works from a single source of truth, eliminating duplicated effort.