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Notes on public tenders.

What we learn from reading tender documents all day: coverage, requirements, and the parts of a bid that decide the outcome.

3 November 2026

How we read 4,000 tender portals a day

Coverage is not a number on a pricing page. It is a set of unglamorous problems: notices that exist only as PDFs, portals that rename their feeds, and the same tender published five times. Here is how the database is actually built — and why we read the documents, not just the titles.

8 min read · Engineering

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