Your questions answered.

There is a difference between names on a spreadsheet, a genuine conversation with a relevant buyer, an invitation to quote, and a contract won. Most lead-generation agencies stop at the first of those. We are built around the last three.

We will be straight with you: no marketing company can guarantee you a contract, because pricing, capability, relationships and capacity still decide who wins. Anyone who promises otherwise is guessing with your money. What we can do is make sure you are seeing the right opportunities early, talking to the people who actually influence the award, presenting evidence that stands up against bigger competitors, and never losing a live opportunity to a missed follow-up. We measure ourselves on the quality of opportunities identified, the relationships managed, and the pipeline created and nurtured - a complete business development system that takes the weight off your team's shoulders, not an enquiry counter.

Everyone can see the national portals - so RADAR looks in three places, not one. It watches the national feeds every day, but what reaches you is a filtered brief for your trade where every opportunity answers the questions that matter: what it is, how to bid and through which route, what you need to hold to qualify, who to talk to by name, and when it closes, with every date labelled. It sweeps the dozens of regional e-sourcing portals where below-threshold contracts sit, visible only to those already watching that exact buyer. And it reads the published cabinet papers, officer decision notices and forward plans where direct awards and urgency contracts surface - work that never goes out to tender.

Every award RADAR captures also goes into a live register of who holds what - hundreds of records and counting, with contract end dates where published. New winners need subcontract capacity the day they sign; incumbents with expiring contracts are tomorrow's re-tenders. And everything is filtered against your trade, geography, contract value and delivery capacity before it reaches you: a shortlist worth your estimator's time, not a firehose of everything with the word "construction" in it, seen early enough to build a relationship before the bid list closes. Every claim carries a number, a date and a source you can check.

We work exclusively with construction and building-services contractors, across eight specialist sectors: fire protection and suppression; security, CCTV and access control; BMS and building controls; HVAC and refrigeration; M&E building services; water treatment and hygiene; lifts and escalators; and facilities management.

That matters because a fire-protection business does not sell the way a fit-out firm does. Depending on your trade, the people you need to influence might be consultants and specifiers, main contractors, FM providers, managing agents, or estates teams in the NHS, local authorities, housing associations and universities. We build the strategy around your actual route to market (who specifies, who procures, who awards) rather than running one generic "construction marketing" campaign for everyone.

Coverage is United Kingdom wide. RADAR monitors national tender and award notices across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland every day. The deeper layers are UK-wide too: regional portals, committee papers and our FOI demand programme.

What you receive is filtered to your patch rather than the whole country, because a shortlist you can act on beats a national list you cannot. We work to ten regions: London, South East excluding London, South West, East of England, Midlands, Yorkshire and the North East, North West, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. London is kept separate from the South East because the volume of work there is high enough to warrant it, and because a contractor in Kent should not be paying to read London records they will never bid.

Sending messages to info@ addresses wins nothing. Contract decisions are shaped by procurement and supply-chain managers, estimators and preconstruction teams, commercial and project directors, facilities and estates managers, and the consultants and specifiers who write your product into the job.

RADAR maps these people account by account, including the ones who are not active on LinkedIn, which in this industry is most of them. We identify who controls the approved-supplier list, who sends out subcontract enquiries, and who owns the framework, then give you a credible, relevant reason to be in front of them before the next opportunity goes live. That is the difference between chasing tenders and being invited to them.

Yes, and we will also be honest about what each one is worth. An approved-supplier list, a framework, and a main contractor's subcontractor database are different things, and getting onto a framework does not guarantee a single order; it earns you the right to compete.

We help you find the registrations and frameworks worth being on, keep track of opening and renewal dates so you never miss a window, and maintain the evidence library (accreditations, case studies, policies, insurances) that prequalification questionnaires demand. Just as importantly, we keep you visible to the people behind those lists between opportunities, so that when work is called off or a bid list is drawn up, yours is a name they already know.

The most expensive mistake in contracting is not the tender you missed. It is the weeks of estimating and management time spent bidding for work you were never realistically positioned to win.

So every opportunity goes through a structured go/no-go assessment before anyone prices anything: strategic fit, your relationship with the buyer, contract value and likely margin, location and delivery capacity, whether there is an entrenched incumbent, and what it will genuinely cost you to respond. We would rather you bid for six contracts you can win than sixty you cannot. Over time the go/no-go record also shows you where you actually win, which sharpens the whole pipeline, not just the next bid.

Being cheapest is a strategy, just usually a bad one. Buyers routinely pay more for a contractor who reduces their risk: the right accreditations, a strong safety record, proven response times, genuine geographic coverage, relevant case studies and a track record of finishing on programme.

The uncomfortable truth is that capable contractors lose bids not because they lack that evidence, but because they fail to present it. Our bid writing support keeps your case studies, accreditations and project evidence organised and ready, so every quotation and submission makes the value case clearly instead of leaving price as the only number on the page. When a buyer can see exactly why you are worth more, you stop competing at the bottom of the market.

Referrals are the best work you will ever win, and the worst thing to build a growth plan on, because you cannot forecast them, scale them or control their timing. Most contractors we meet grew on recommendations, then hit a ceiling when referrals slowed or they needed to keep several projects running at once.

We replace that feast-and-famine cycle with a repeatable system: a defined set of target accounts, continuous opportunity monitoring through RADAR, consistent outreach and credible content, disciplined quotation follow-up, and reactivation of past clients who already trust you. Our Discover-Target-Engage-Bid-Win-Grow process reviews the numbers monthly, so you can see the pipeline building and plan labour, cash and growth around it.

There are three ways in. Who Won What starts at £29 a month: a monthly extract of the contracts awarded in your region, who won them and when they end, delivered by email. That is £29 for one region, £79 for three, or £199 for all ten. You can subscribe online and cancel any time. RADAR intelligence starts from £149 a month: a Weekly Intelligence Report covering the advertised work (filtered and decision-ready), the below-threshold work hidden on regional portals, the contracts that never reach a portal at all - captured from published cabinet papers and decision notices - and a live register of who holds what, with expiry dates. One region is £149; £499 covers the whole United Kingdom with same-day alerts and named buyer contacts. You read it in two minutes and know exactly what to do next. Portals at similar money show everyone the same tenders; RADAR is built for specialist contractors, and it follows every award to the winner - the packages they're likely to let and the people who'll let them. Those packages never appear on any portal, and they're where the least-contested work lives.

RADAR Plus - the full business development system - typically starts from £2,750 a month, scoped to your sectors and patch on the first call: RADAR, plus a fractional business development expert and named account manager, the outreach and follow-up engines running in your name, bid writing support with AI-assisted tender and PQQ drafting built on your content library, and a monthly review of the numbers with you. For context: a bid-writing retainer alone typically costs £2,000 or more a month, and a single in-house business development hire £5,000–£6,000 a month fully loaded - before they've found a single tender. There is no long lock-in; the system has to earn its place every month, and we'll tell you honestly if we don't think you'd get a return.

Anyone promising you a set number of contracts in 30 days is telling you what you want to hear. The honest answer depends on what you sell: reactive works convert in weeks; major projects and frameworks can take a year or more from first contact to award.

What we can promise is visible progress at every stage, reported transparently each month. Early on, that means your market mapped, target accounts identified and real conversations started, typically within the first several weeks. Then pipeline: meetings, supplier registrations and invitations to quote. Then the numbers that matter: tenders submitted, contracts won, contract value and your cost of winning work. You will never wonder what you are paying for, because you will see exactly where every opportunity sits.