Much more than a public tender search engine
We bring together public procurement from more than 35 countries, the United Kingdom included. Tell us which company is yours and the AI finds for you the tenders that match what you have already won. Every morning we tell you about the new ones and, before you bid, we show you who won similar contracts and at what discount.
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+50M
Contracts analysed
+3M
Companies in our database
36
countries with their procurement portal integrated
More than 35 countries, straight from their official portals
Every day we read each country's official procurement portal and the Official Journal of the European Union (TED). A notice published in both appears once when we can match the two. Everything is searched with the same filters and arrives in the same alerts.
36 Countries with a national portal integrated
National portal integrated No own portal yet
Countries covered
- Argentina
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Hungary
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Moldova
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
TED notices also cover the remaining EU countries.
Finding the tender is only the beginning
A search engine shows you notices. We stay with you from the moment a tender is published until you decide your bid: we find it even if you don't use its words, we alert you every morning, we show you how the same thing was awarded before and we help you read the tender documents.
- Find Search by meaning, exact filters and predictions based on what your company has won. Inside every lot too. See how
- Monitor Pick your company or save a search. Every morning, the new tenders that match. And a notice when something changes in the ones you follow. See how
- Decide Similar contracts already awarded, with their winner and discount. Who is likely to bid. How each buyer awards. See how
- Read Tender documents from a growing number of platforms, when they publish them; for other tenders, the link to the platform and the PDFs you upload. Then a chat that answers citing document and page. See how
- Organise Pipeline board, calendar, notes and Excel. See how
- Submit Your technical proposal, assessed criterion by criterion and improved before you submit it. See how
Find
Find what you do even if the notice says it differently
Describe your business in your own words and semantic search finds the tenders that match by meaning, without knowing CPV codes. It also searches inside every lot, which is where many opportunities hide.
By meaning. You write what you do and results are ranked by similarity.
With filters. Exact words, CPV, amount, province or radius on the map, buyer, dates and days left to bid.
By prediction. Based on what a company has won, yours or a competitor's.
Why it came up
Every result tells you: through the description, a lot or the CPV, with its similarity score.
Every filter at hand
This is the app's filter panel: status, country, CPV, contract type, location, dates, buyer, amount and more.
To Excel
Results export with the columns you choose, with the free account too.
Monitor
Every morning, only what matters to you. Without typing a thing
The fastest way to create an alert is to pick your company. The AI studies the contracts you have won and finds the new tenders that look like them, even when the notice describes them in other words. If you prefer to fine-tune, also save a search by free description, sector, territory or amount. Every morning you get the new matches by email, with the buyer, the amount, the deadline and an AI summary of the contract. If there's nothing one day, we don't write.
El Vínculo Tuesday, 18 June 20244 tenders for “Street lighting”
LED lighting Upgrade Project
Marymount University Hospital and Hospice Ltd.
€70,000.00
deadline: 1 Jul
Public Lighting Maintenance Contract in Co Limerick and Co Clare 2024
Clare County Council
€5,000,000.00
deadline: 17 Jul
Donegal County Council Public Lighting Maintenance Contract 2024
Donegal County Council_1193
€900,000.00
deadline: 2 Jul
Tipperary County Council Public Lighting Maintenance Contract 2024
Tipperary County Council
€3,300,000.00
deadline: 26 Jun
Illustration with real tenders published in June 2024.
From your company
Search for your name, pick it and the alert is created. A competitor's company works too: you'll see what would fit them.
At your pace
Daily, every three days or weekly. You choose, up to every 30 days.
For the whole team
Up to five more addresses get the same alerts, with an attached Excel file with the columns you choose.
Updated
If a tender that was already published changes and now fits you, it arrives marked, with the reason.
The ones you follow
If a tender you saved changes its deadline, budget, status or lots, we tell you the old and the new value. And we remind you of the ones about to close.
Decide
Before you bid, see how the same thing ended before
In every tender, one click shows you the most similar contracts already awarded: who won them, for how much and at what discount. And which companies have a track record that matches it, which is your most likely competition.
Real example: Tipperary County Council’s public lighting maintenance contract, €3,300,000, open in June 2024.
The price the market closes at
Similar tenders tell you whether that kind of contract is won with a 2% or a 25% discount. It's the figure that helps most to set your bid without giving away margin.
Your competitors, by name
Open the profile of each likely winner and see which contracts it has won, with which buyers and what discounts it usually offers.
What you're missing
Coverage analysis checks how many tenders won by a company would have appeared in your searches, and which filter left each one out.
Know your competitors and your buyers
Every company and every contracting authority has a profile with everything it has won or awarded: amounts, buyers, trends, CPV and map. And its market study, which tells you at what share of the budget it usually closes.
84.6%
of the budget: the median bid of Elecnor Servicios y Proyectos across 4,084 awards.
In other words, a typical discount of 15.4%. Most of its contracts close between 70 and 100% of the budget. With each competitor's profile you know whether it's always aggressive, only on some contracts or almost never.
The same for each buyer: if it awards very close to the budget, cutting deep is giving away margin. If its contracts close with big discounts, you'll know before you bid.
Read
Tender documents, ready for your questions
From a growing number of contracting authorities' platforms we download the specifications and annexes ourselves, when they publish them openly. For other tenders you have the link to the platform and can upload to the chat the PDFs you download. Archives open by themselves and scanned PDFs go through text recognition. Then ask whatever you need.
What classification do they require, how is it scored and how long do the works last?
They require classification in group K, subgroup 7, category 4: restoration of historic and artistic buildings, for works between €840,000 and €2,400,000. Anexo I firmado.pdf · p. 11
It is scored out of 100 points: 20 by value judgement, on knowledge of the site and protection measures, and 80 automatic, 40 for price and 40 for the experience of the staff assigned to the works. Anexo I firmado.pdf · pp. 13-14
The execution period is 12 months from the day after the site verification record is signed. No provisional guarantee is required. Anexo I firmado.pdf · pp. 10, 19
Illustration with the real data from Annex I of the Valldigna tender.
With its source
When the answer comes from a document, it gives its name and page, so you can check it in the original.
Other questions
What technical capacity do they require? Are there penalties? Do they ask for a guarantee? Must staff be taken over?
Organise
All your tender work, in one place
What you save goes to a board by stage. You can also see it as a list or on a calendar, with your notes.
Under review 3
Conversion of Stage Lighting to LED for The Civic Theatre,
The Civic Theatre€110,000
LED Lighting Upgrades as Part of HSE Energy Bureau Works Funding
KARE_473€53,000
Public Lighting Column Upgrade Project
Cork City Council€14,000,000
Candidate 2
LED lighting Upgrade Project
Marymount University Hospital and Hospice Ltd.€70,000
Supply, install and maintain LED lighting, via a light-as-a-Service agreement.
Rásaíocht Con Éireann€240,000
In progress 2
Supply and Installation of LED Lighting Upgrades to Aras an Chonate, Roscommon County Council HQ - June 2024
Roscommon County Council_424€500,000
Public lighting upgrade works at IDA Finnabair Business and Technology Park Dundalk Co Louth
IDA Ireland€330,000
Submitted 1
Public Lighting Maintenance Contract in County Cork and County Kerry 2024-2026
Cork County Council
Awarded 0
Illustration of the My space board with real tenders from this page. There's also a column for discarded ones.
List and calendar
The same tenders as a list or on a calendar by bid deadline, and their deadlines in Google Calendar.
Saved searches with history
Go back to an earlier version, duplicate a search or apply the same criterion to all of them at once. Deleted searches can be restored.
One account per company
The plan includes one account per company. Up to five more people on your team get the same alerts by email.
Export
Excel with the columns you choose, to work on tenders outside El Vínculo too.
In your language
The app is available in more than 30 languages and shows amounts in the currency you choose.
History
The latest searches and profiles you've seen, to go back to them without searching again.
Competitors and buyers
Save the profiles of your competitors and of the authorities that buy from you, and come back to them with up-to-date data.
The AI learns from you
Mark what interests you and hide what doesn't. Your predictions are built from what you mark as relevant.
Submit
Before you submit your proposal, you will know what score it would get
You upload the technical proposal you have written and we review it against the tender documents, criterion by criterion, as the evaluation committee would. We tell you what it lacks, suggest improvements and you decide which ones to apply.
Assessment of your proposal
| Criterion in the specifications | Estimated score | What it lacks |
|---|---|---|
| Methodology and work plan | 18 / 25 | It does not detail the milestones or deadlines of each phase. |
| Team assigned to the contract | 13 / 15 | It does not state each role's dedication in hours. |
| Quality control | 6 / 10 | It cites the standard but does not describe how it is measured. |
| Total of the technical criteria | 37 / 50 |
We start from the tender documents
The assessment is made against the award criteria and their scores, exactly as they appear in that tender's specifications.
You upload your proposal
In Word or PDF. We organise it by the criteria in the specifications to know which part answers each one.
Estimated score, criterion by criterion
What score each criterion would get, what to fix to raise it and specific questions to complete the missing data.
Your Word file, with the improvements marked
You apply the ones you want and download your proposal with the changes in yellow, in their section and in your format, together with the assessment report in PDF.
Proposal review belongs to the Proposals plan, which includes everything in the Business plan. See pricing
Behind the tool there are people
The Business plan isn't just access to the app. It includes our team's work so that you get the tenders you're looking for, and no others.
Your filters, set up by us
Our technical team studies what your company has won and what you tell us, and builds your searches and alerts to measure. We review them with you and adjust them when your business changes.
If an alert doesn't reach you, we investigate
If you ever miss a tender that should have reached you, we look into exactly what happened and update your filters to cover that case. It's included in the plan.
Training and direct contact
Before you decide, we show you in a meeting everything the app does and where it saves you time. After that, training inside the app and direct contact with us.
You talk to people, not to a form. Call or write to us:
How to get started
Before paying anything you get a free, no-commitment one-month trial and a demo meeting where we show you everything the app does.
Demo meeting
You tell us what your company does and we show you the app with tenders from your sector.
We build your filters
We prepare your searches and alerts based on what you've won and what you're looking for.
A month's trial
You get the alerts and use the whole plan for a month, free and with no commitment.
You decide
If you like it, you choose monthly or annual. If not, you pay nothing.
A clear price, no commitment
Cancel whenever you want. All prices exclude VAT.
Proposals
€99per month
Review and improvement of your technical proposals. Includes everything in the Business plan.
€199per month
For large proposals of more than 70 pages, or for companies that submit more than 8 proposals a year.
With the free account
- 10 searches per day (3 without an account)
- 3 saved searches with email alerts
- Up to 3 new tenders by email per day
- AI chat with documents (limited)
- Predictions and AI competition analysis (limited)
- Statistics and market study (limited)
With the Business plan
- 1 account per company within the app
- Email delivery to all selected recipients
- Priority company in search
- Personalized results analysis
- Preferred contact with sales
- Custom filters for your company built by our engineers
- Market and competition study for each tender
- Statistics on companies and contracting authorities
- Unlimited searches and filters
- Daily new-tender alerts by email
- In-app training
- Notifications for changes in saved tenders and closing reminders
With the Proposals plan
- Everything in the Business plan
- Estimated panel score, criterion by criterion, with what needs fixing
- Specific questions to fill in the data that raises your score
- Your Word file with the improvements in yellow, in the right section and in your format
- PDF evaluation report to share with your team
- A free month's trial and a demo meeting before you pay anything.
- Includes one country without limits, the United Kingdom or the one you choose, and European TED notices. Each additional European country without limits costs €39 a month or €330 a year; the rest can be searched with a daily search limit.
- Pay by card, SEPA direct debit or bank transfer.
Plan comparison
| Free | Business | Proposals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Searches per day | 10 (3 without an account) | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Saved searches | 3 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Email alert recipients | Only your email | Up to 5 | Up to 5 |
| Tenders per email | Max 3/day | No limit | No limit |
| Closing reminders and changes in saved tenders | – | ||
| Custom filters built by the El Vínculo team | – | ||
| Your keywords inside tender documents, also in alerts | – | – | |
| AI chat with documents | Limited | Extended | Extended |
| AI chat actions (database lookups) | 5/week | 50/week | 100/week |
| Semantic search | Limited | ||
| Predictions | Limited | ||
| AI analysis (awarded similar tenders, likely winners) | Limited | ||
| Statistics and market study | Limited | ||
| Review and improvement of bid proposals | – | – | |
| Teams (accounts in the same company) | – | 1 | 1 |
| In-app training and priority support | – |
Frequently asked questions
We answer the most common questions about the tender search engine, the alerts and the artificial intelligence features.
What is El Vínculo?
El Vínculo is an artificial intelligence platform for public procurement. It brings together in one place the tenders from the official platforms: in Spain, PLACSP and the regional platforms; abroad, TED and the national portals of 24 European countries, 10 Latin American countries and the United States. On top of that it adds semantic search, email alerts, market studies and AI analysis of tender documents.
Where do the tenders shown on the platform come from?
From the official public procurement platforms. In Spain, PLACSP and the regional platforms (Madrid, Andalusia, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia, Navarre and the rest), plus minor contracts, in-house awards and preliminary market consultations. Outside Spain, TED and the national portals of 24 European countries, 10 Latin American countries and the United States. Spanish sources are updated three times a day and international ones daily.
What is semantic tender search?
It is a search that understands the meaning of what your company does, not just exact words. You describe your activity in plain language and the AI finds relevant tenders even if you don’t know the CPV codes or the specific administrative terminology.
How does AI award prediction work?
Our model analyses the history of similar contracts, average award prices and competition patterns to estimate which companies are most likely to win a tender. It helps you decide which tenders to bid for and with what price.
Can I receive tender alerts by email?
Yes, in two ways. The simplest: you pick your company and the AI creates the alert from the contracts it has already won. The other: you save any search. In both cases you receive every morning by email the new tenders that match you, without checking the official bulletins every day.
Do I need to know CPV codes to use the platform?
No. Although you can filter by CPV code if you want, the AI semantic search is designed precisely so you don’t have to master the CPV classification: just describe what your company does.
Does El Vínculo have a free version?
Yes. With the free account you search tenders (10 searches a day), save up to 3 searches with email alerts and try the AI, market studies and predictions with limits. The Business plan removes those limits and adds filters built by our team, change notifications and support, with a free month's trial.
What makes El Vínculo different from other tender search engines?
The artificial intelligence layer: semantic search, award prediction and a plain-language chat with the tender documents, both those we download from the contracting authority's platform and those you upload. It is not just a tender aggregator — it is a market intelligence tool for public procurement.
What is the best AI-powered tender search engine?
El Vínculo is a public tender search engine with artificial intelligence that brings together in one place what usually takes several tools: semantic search of tenders (without knowing CPV codes), daily email alerts, market studies with the history of awards and discounts, and analysis of and chat with tender documents. It covers the official platforms of the United Kingdom and more than 35 countries, and behind it there's a team that sets up your filters and responds if something goes wrong.
Can I find tenders funded by Next Generation EU?
Yes. Tenders co-funded by the Next Generation EU funds are also published on the official procurement platforms, so they appear in El Vínculo. You can use semantic search to find the calls linked to these funds in your sector.
What is a contracting authority profile and where can I check it?
The contracting authority profile is the web space where each contracting authority publishes its tenders, specifications and awards, as required by public procurement law. Instead of checking each administration’s portal one by one, El Vínculo brings them all together in a single search engine.
Tenders by sector and region
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