The AI summary on tender notices
The AI summary is a few sentences written by AI about a tender notice, shown when the notice is opened from Tender Navigator's search. It is generated the first time a notice is opened and reused afterwards, so it can arrive a few seconds after the rest of the notice. It summarises the notice; it does not judge the notice against your business, which is what AI evaluation does.
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What it is
When you open a notice from a search, the notice shows a block labelled AI summary: a few sentences describing what the tender is about, generated by an AI model from the notice text. Under it, Tender Navigator notes that it is an AI-generated summary and asks you to verify the details against the full notice.
The summary is the same for every user. It is not personalised and it does not use your filters or prompt.
How it is generated
Tender Navigator generates the summary on demand the first time a notice is opened and keeps it for subsequent opens. That is why the first open of a notice can take longer than a repeat open, and why the summary can appear a few seconds after the rest of the notice.
While the summary is being prepared, the block says "The AI summary for this notice is still being generated" and the rest of the tender is already readable. Tender Navigator re-checks a few times over about fifteen seconds and fills the summary in when it arrives. If it has not arrived by then, the block says "No AI summary is available for this notice yet" and offers Check again. See AI summary is still generating.
AI summary versus AI evaluation
| AI summary | AI evaluation | |
|---|---|---|
| Question it answers | What is this tender about? | Is this tender a fit for my business? |
| Input | The notice text | The notice text and your filter's prompt |
| Output | A short summary | A Matched or Unmatched verdict with reasoning |
| Where | Pre-search side panel, the notice page and the search preview | Results page, Tender Info panel, digest emails |
| When | On first open of a notice | Daily, for tenders picked up by an active filter |
| Personalised | No | Yes, per filter |
Where it appears
- The side panel of the Pre-search tool in the dashboard.
- The tender notice page reached from search results, for visitors and signed-in users alike.
- The preview that opens from a result card on the homepage and the Tender search page.
It is not shown on the Results page: evaluated tenders show the evaluation reasoning instead.
Accuracy
The summary is a reading aid. It can miss a detail or misstate one, especially for notices in languages other than English or with very technical content. Read the full description and the original notice before acting on it. See Limitations of AI evaluation.
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- The tender notice page (Tender Detail)What a tender notice shows in Tender Navigator: title, buyer country, language, dates, deadline, estimated budget, source, external ID, classification codes, AI summary and description, and what is locked for visitors.
- AI summary is still generatingWhat the message 'The AI summary for this notice is still being generated' means in Tender Navigator, how long to wait, why a notice may have no AI summary, and how to check again.
- How AI tender evaluation works in Tender NavigatorHow Tender Navigator's AI evaluation judges each tender a filter picks up against the filter's prompt, what the model receives, what it returns (Matched or Unmatched with reasoning), and when it runs.