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Where public awards differs for tender awards

Everything below is about one job: public awards for tender awards, done in a way that survives a list rather than a single lookup. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so Public Award Monitor is something you run yourself against your own list of tender awards.

The problem

Tender awards and public awards: one at a time is fine, and a list of them is not. Any public awards method has to survive this: tender awards publishes every award, on a schedule, in a portal built for procurement officers. Know this about tender awards before any public awards: award date and delivery date can be a year apart, and only one is the buying window. There are 2 runnable examples of public awards for tender awards below.

Why it matters

Winners of tender awards are spread across dozens of portals and countries, which is the whole reason nobody aggregates it.

The method

  1. Start with one of tender awards you already know, so a wrong public awards answer is obvious rather than plausible.
  2. Run Public Award Monitor across your list of tender awards, which carries 2 ready made setups for public awards.
  3. Read ten rows of public awards on tender awards by hand before you trust the rest of the list.

Traditional Search Tools

  • The awarding body's own feed, for tender awards. Free, narrow, and reliable if you sell into one sector.
  • The awarding body's own announcements. Agencies publish winners and most have a mailing list. Free, narrow, and reliable if you sell into one sector.
  • GovWin, Tussell or a procurement intelligence vendor. They aggregate the portals and add pipeline data on unawarded tenders. Priced for companies whose whole business is public sector.
  • Search the portals. USASpending, Contracts Finder, TED, the NIH reporter. All free and all searchable. Each has its own interface and none of them will remember your search next week.

Mamba Labs Apify Actors

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