A Weekly Intelligence Report for your trade and your patch: the live tenders worth your time, the work sitting where you would never look, and the contracts that never go out to tender at all. From £149 a month.
By the time a tender reaches a national portal, everyone you compete with is reading the same page on the same morning.
The portals are not the problem. Being one of forty firms who found out at the same moment is the problem. RADAR watches the layers underneath: the regional sites most contractors never check, the committee papers where decisions are recorded before anything is advertised, and the awards that quietly reset a market for the next 5 years.
Portal alerts tell you a document exists. They do not tell you whether it is worth your time, what you need to hold to qualify, which route it is being let through, or who to speak to. So the alerts pile up unread, and the one that mattered is lost among the ones that never did.
RADAR does the reading. Every entry in your report has already been filtered for your trade and your region, checked against what you can actually bid for, and written up so you can act on it in 2 minutes or decide in 10 seconds that you will not.
Four layers, every week, in one email you can read before your first coffee. Each layer needs a different move, so every entry is labelled with the one it needs.
Yes, RADAR watches the national portals every day. The difference is what reaches you: a filtered feed 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. 2 minutes to read. No keyword dump.
Bid for it
Below-threshold contracts don't have to appear on the national feeds - so they don't. They sit on dozens of regional e-sourcing portals, visible only to those already watching that exact buyer. RADAR sweeps them: it surfaced a £2.5m city-wide contract whose national record said only "below threshold".
Bid for it
Direct awards and urgency contracts skip the portals entirely - but they can't skip governance. RADAR reads the published cabinet papers, officer decision notices and forward plans every week. A multimillion-pound contract awarded under urgency powers was never tendered and never will be; RADAR flagged it from the published papers weeks in advance.
Approach the buyer
Every award RADAR captures - advertised or not - goes into a live register of who holds what: hundreds of award records and counting, with contract end dates where published. New winners need delivery capacity the day they sign. Expiring contracts are tomorrow's re-tenders - and RADAR does the expiry arithmetic. One council's £6.9m of contracts ends in March 2027 with 85% of the work unfinished; that re-procurement is a calendar entry, not a prediction.
Approach the winner Position for the renewal
Every entry tells you the route into the work
A contract worth £40m is worth nothing to you until somebody says how you get at it. An open tender, a contract that will never be tendered, a scheme already awarded and a contract running out all need a different move, and mixing them in one list is how good opportunities get skimmed past. So every entry carries its label:
It is advertised and open. You get the deadline, the route it is being let through, and what you need to hold to qualify.
It will never go out to tender. The way in is the buyer's own list, and you get the named officer and the decision date.
Already awarded, so the contract is gone but the packages under it are not. You get the winner and what they still have to place.
It ends on a known date. You get that date early enough to be a name they already know when it comes back to market.
Coverage: United Kingdom
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.
Every claim in a RADAR report carries a number, a date and a source you can check.
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One trade, and as much of the country as you work in. You pick your coverage at checkout. The 10 regions are London, South East (excluding London), South West, East of England, Midlands, Yorkshire and the North East, North West, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Every plan carries a named buyer contact on every entry.
Your patch, every week. Less than a day of an estimator's time, against work you would otherwise never have seen.
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