Deadline-first bid management

Stop losing tenders to a missed date and a spreadsheet nobody owns.

TenderTick gives smaller bid teams one reliable calendar for opportunities, requirements, owners, evidence and submission deadlines — without replacing the document tools you already use.

  • First useful outcome in 15 minutes
  • Import your existing spreadsheet
  • No paid implementation
  • Export everything, any time
What needs attention today
Thu, Feb 26
Live bids
6
Due in 7 days
3
Overdue actions
2
  • Road resurfacing IDIQ — Zone 2
    Northfield County Public Works
    2 days
    PB
  • Janitorial services — 3 campuses
    Meridian Regional Medical Center
    6 days
    SA
  • Managed IT support
    Bellhaven Unified School District
    13 days
    JM
  • Security officers — overnight
    Port of Alder Bay
    27 days
    PB
Certificate of insurance expires 4 days before the Northfield County deadline.

Real screen. Sample workspace ships with every trial.

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01The problem

Small bid teams lose contracts for operational reasons, not commercial ones.

01

Opportunities are discovered too late

By the time a notice reaches the right person, a third of the bid window is gone.

02

Deadlines live in personal calendars

Question deadlines and site visits sit in one person's Outlook — invisible when they are out of office.

03

Mandatory requirements are missed at final review

One unanswered pass/fail question disqualifies an otherwise winning submission.

04

Contributors are chased through email

Subject-matter experts are asked three times, in three threads, with no record of who owns what.

05

Time is spent bidding on poor-fit work

Without a scored bid/no-bid gate, teams write for contracts they were never going to win.

02The product

Everything a bid runs on — in one record, from notice to outcome.

Table-stakes capability that enterprise proposal platforms charge five figures for, sized and priced for a team of two to twenty.

Opportunity inbox

Capture notices from any portal or referral with source, buyer, value and every published date in one record.

Master deadline calendar

Question deadlines, site visits, drafts, approvals and submission in one calendar, with reminders that escalate.

Bid / no-bid scoring

Eight weighted criteria produce a score, a recommendation and an approval gate you can defend.

Requirement matrix

Every requirement gets an owner, a status, a response and the evidence that proves it.

Answer & evidence library

Reusable answers, policies, case studies and certificates with review dates and version history.

Submission preflight

A ten-point check before you upload, plus audit history and win-loss reporting after.

03The 10x

Five things bigger platforms do not do for teams your size.

01

Deadline-first, with visible ownership

Other tools open on a list of documents. TenderTick opens on what is due, who owns it, and what will slip if nobody moves. Every record carries a live risk score built from time remaining, unanswered mandatories, unowned work, overdue tasks and expiring evidence — and it tells you exactly which of those pushed the number up.

02

Requirement extraction tied to source pages

Paste the requirements schedule and TenderTick splits it into a matrix, keeping the document name, page number and the exact quoted line against each row. At final review your team can see the source text next to the answer instead of re-reading a 90-page RFP.

03

Evidence expiry alerts during a live pursuit

Your insurance certificate is valid today and expires four days before the submission date. TenderTick knows, flags it against the bid it will actually break, and tells the owner while there is still time to renew.

04

Contributors respond without an account

Send a signed, expiring link. The contributor answers one requirement or uploads one certificate from their phone. No license, no login, no email thread — and you can revoke the link the moment they are done.

05

Affordable, and it does not replace your document tools

Keep writing in Word and storing in SharePoint. TenderTick is the system of record for dates, owners, requirements and evidence — it links out to the files you already have rather than demanding a migration.

04Experience principles

The rules the product is held to.

01

First useful outcome within 15 minutes

Sign up, import a spreadsheet, and see your real deadlines on a calendar before your coffee gets cold.

02

Import without paid implementation

Drop in a CSV of the tracker you already keep. Column mapping is guided, and nothing is charged for it.

03

A dashboard that answers one question

What needs attention today — filtered by the role of the person looking at it.

04

Every automated action is explainable and reversible

Each reminder states the rule that created it and the date it was measured from. Cancel it, snooze it or change the rule.

05

Mobile-responsive external experiences

Contributors and approvers do their bit from a phone, with minimal login friction.

06

Exportable evidence, so nobody feels trapped

One click produces a timestamped record package. Your data leaves as cleanly as it arrived.

05The workflow

One state model, and nothing hidden in a note.

Every record moves through the same six states. Problems are recorded as visible conditions with a reason code, so a manager can see why something is stuck without opening it.

01
New
02
In progress
03
Waiting on external party
04
Waiting on internal team
05
Ready for review
06
Completed
Visible conditions:OverdueBlockedDisputedEvidence expiredEscalated— each with a required reason code.
06Roles

Five roles, enforced at every data-access layer.

RoleResponsibilityWhat they can do
Account ownerBilling, workspace and security settingsEverything, plus billing and data retention.
Supervisor / managerPolicies, workload, approvals and reportingApproves bid/no-bid, sees workload and win-rate.
OperatorDaily records, follow-up and resolution tasksRuns the bid: requirements, tasks, evidence, submission.
External participantLimited secure response, upload, approval or acknowledgementOne signed link, one action, no account.
Auditor / viewerRead-only evidence and reporting accessReads records and exports; changes nothing.
07Fits your stack

Keep Word. Keep SharePoint. Keep your portal logins.

TenderTick is the system of record for dates, owners, requirements and evidence. It links to the documents where they already live, and publishes your deadline calendar as a subscribable feed so it appears in Outlook and Google Calendar without anyone re-typing a date.

  • Microsoft 365
  • Google Workspace
  • SharePoint
  • Dropbox
  • CRM systems
  • Procurement portals
Calendar feed
webcal://tendertick.com/api/calendar/wk_8f21…/feed.ics

Every question deadline, site visit, internal draft date, approval gate and submission deadline — in the calendar your team already opens each morning. Revoke the token and the feed dies.

Import

CSV of your current tracker, mapped in three clicks.

Export

CSV, and a timestamped record package per bid.

08Pricing

Priced for a bid team, not a procurement department.

Full comparison
Starter
$29per month

A small team running a handful of bids at once.

  • Up to 3 users
  • 25 live opportunities
  • Deadline calendar & reminders
  • Requirement matrix
  • Evidence library with expiry alerts
  • CSV import and export
Start 14-day trial
Most popular
Professional
$89per month

The default for an active bid team.

  • Up to 10 users
  • Unlimited opportunities
  • Everything in Starter
  • Templates & recurring workflows
  • Automation and escalation rules
  • Secure external contributor links
  • Branding and integrations
  • Win-loss analytics
Start 14-day trial
Business
$249per month

Multiple teams, tighter controls, reporting to a board.

  • Unlimited users
  • Everything in Professional
  • Multiple teams and workspaces
  • Advanced permissions & MFA policy
  • Full audit export
  • API access
  • Priority support
Start 14-day trial

Prices in USD; sales tax may apply. Annual billing saves two months. A paid, fixed-scope pilot is available for teams that want a measured before-and-after on one workflow.

09Pilot

Run one live tender through it and measure the difference.

A fixed-scope paid pilot covers one measurable workflow with agreed success criteria — usually “no mandatory requirement unanswered at 48 hours out” or “every question deadline met”. We record the before-and-after so the decision to continue is evidence-based.

15 min
to first useful outcome
1 bid
is enough to prove it
0
implementation fees on Starter
North-star metric

Completed high-value workflow outcomes per active customer per month — supported by time-to-first-value, weekly active teams, completion rate and 90-day retention. It is on your reporting screen, not just ours.

Fixed-scope, one measurable workflow, agreed success criteria.