Features
Everything TenderScout does, from portal to submission.
10 government portals in one feed, every tender scored against your business, the RFT read and checked for blockers, the response drafted from your own evidence, and the bid tracked to the finish. Every feature below is live today; the tags show which plans include it.
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Find the tenders worth your time
Every open tender from the federal, state and council portals TenderScout monitors, in one feed, ranked against your business.
Every portal in one feed
Every planAusTender, VendorPanel, the state portals and councils, brought together and kept to open tenders.
A match score on every tender
Every planEach open tender is scored against your business profile, with a Strong match or Worth a look band beside the score.
Filters that narrow fast
Every planCategory, state, level of government, buyer, closing within 14 days, and panels and standing offers you can still get onto.
Watchlist
Every planSave a tender to Watching and come back to it; close dates turn red as they get near.
Search everything
Every planOne search box (⌘K) across tenders and your own work, with Ask Scout in the same place.
Add a tender from anywhere
Every planUpload the documents for a tender that isn’t in the feed and work on it the same way.
Go/No-go
Know if anything stops you bidding
Before you read the whole RFT, Scout checks it for the things you would need to hold already.
Go/No-go verdict
Every planScout finds the hard blockers (prequalifications, licences, certifications, clearances) and checks each against your profile: Go, No-go, or Your call when it can’t be sure.
Runs as part of an analysis.
Unknown, never guessed
Every planAnything your profile doesn’t answer is marked unknown. Things you can arrange after award, like insurance, never count as blockers.
Override with a reason
Every planThe decision is always yours: override the verdict and record why.
Analyse
Every requirement, with the clause it came from
Upload the RFT, addenda and attachments together (PDF, Word or Excel) and Scout reads them for you.
Requirements extraction
Trial5 analysesScout15 a monthProUnlimitedEvery requirement pulled out and rated critical, high or medium.
Landmine clauses flagged
Trial5 analysesScout15 a monthProUnlimitedThe clauses that can cost you money or the contract, such as uncapped liquidated damages, called out.
Sorted the way you work
Trial5 analysesScout15 a monthProUnlimitedSplit into what you write, what you sign, submission instructions and what binds you after award.
Source clause for every row
Trial5 analysesScout15 a monthProUnlimitedOpen the exact clause a requirement came from, without hunting through the PDF.
Add and edit requirements
Trial5 analysesScout15 a monthProUnlimitedAdd your own, edit or dismiss Scout’s; your changes survive a re-analysis.
Scout summary
Trial5 analysesScout15 a monthProUnlimitedA short briefing on the tender’s overview: what it is, what it asks for and what to watch.
Compliance checklist export
Trial5 analysesScout15 a monthProUnlimitedDownload the requirements as a Word checklist or an Excel matrix.
Draft
A first draft from your own evidence
Scout writes the response section by section, from your business profile and your documents, against the tender’s own criteria.
AI-drafted bid response
Trial1 draftProUnlimitedEach section drafted against the tender’s criteria, using only what your profile and documents support.
Auditor review
Trial1 draftProUnlimitedOne review pass reads the finished draft and flags gaps and claims your evidence doesn’t back up, for you to fix.
Placeholders, never invention
Trial1 draftProUnlimitedMissing details are left as visible placeholders like [Referee name], never filled with made-up facts.
Evidence readiness
Trial1 draftProUnlimitedSee which criteria your documents cover and where the gaps are, and attach the right document.
Edit, preview and export to Word
Trial1 draftProUnlimitedEdit each section, preview the finished document, and export it as .docx.
Regenerate one section
ProRewrite a single section without redrafting the whole response.
Track
Every bid on one board
Keep each tender moving to submission, and let Scout tell you what changed.
Pipeline board
Every planMove tenders through Watching, Analysing, Drafting, Ready and Submitted, then record Won or Lost.
Scout alerts
Every planNew strong matches, hits on your saved alerts and addendum changes, collected in one place.
Saved alerts
Every planSet alerts by keyword, category, state or buyer, and see how many open tenders match before you save.
Email digest
Every planA daily or weekly email of what’s new for you, or none at all.
Closing reminders
Every planAn email 7 days and 24 hours before a tender you track closes.
Intelligence
Know the buyer before you write
Built on the published AusTender award record, so you can see how a buyer actually buys.
Buyer intel
Every planWhat each federal buyer has awarded, how often, and through which procurement method.
Suppliers
Every planWho wins in your categories, and the buyers that keep coming back to them.
Benchmarks
Every planHow each category of government work gets awarded: how often, and to whom.
Ask Scout
Every planAsk in plain English across your tenders, requirements, drafts and profile, with answers that cite their source.
Works with
Fits how you already work
From the AI assistant you already use, for every business you bid for.
AI connectors for Claude and ChatGPT
TrialRead-onlyProRead-onlyConnect through MCP and ask about your tenders, requirements and buyers from your assistant. Read-only.
Actions from your AI assistant
ProComing soonLet your assistant act in TenderScout, not just read from it.
Several businesses, one login
Every planConsultants and bid writers keep a separate profile for each business; matches, analyses and drafts stay with their profile.
Hosted in Sydney
Every planYour data is stored in Australia, kept separate from every other firm, and never used to train a model.
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