# Tender Navigator glossary Source: Tender Navigator Knowledge Base, https://tendernavigator.com/knowledge-base/glossary (canonical HTML). Category: FAQ and glossary. Published 2026-09-08, last updated 2026-09-08. > The vocabulary of Tender Navigator, one term per entry, in the product's own wording. ## Tender A public procurement opportunity: a contracting authority's published invitation to bid for goods, services or works. In Tender Navigator every tender is represented by a notice ingested from a procurement platform. ## Notice The published record of a tender on a procurement platform: title, description, buyer country, dates, classification codes and other fields. Tender Navigator holds a copy of the notice; the original on the platform remains the source of truth. Also called a tender notice. ## Buyer country The country of the contracting authority that published a notice. Searches and filters select tenders by buyer country. ## Source system The procurement platform a notice was ingested from, shown as **Source** on a tender. Examples: TED, Find a Tender, SAM.gov, GOV.UK. ## External ID The identifier of a notice on its source system. Together with the source, it locates the original notice. ## CPV The Common Procurement Vocabulary, the eight-digit classification used by European Union and United Kingdom procurement portals. One of the three classification systems Tender Navigator supports. ## NAICS The North American Industry Classification System, the six-digit classification used by United States and Canadian procurement portals. ## UNSPSC The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code, the eight-digit classification used by international bodies and portals outside Europe and North America. ## Classification code A CPV, NAICS or UNSPSC code attached to a notice to say what is being bought. In Tender Navigator, codes are entered from a built-in dictionary and combined with OR. ## Pre-search tool Tender Navigator's live search across the tender database, available on the website with a five-result preview and in full inside the dashboard. Also written Presearch or Pre-Search. Its results are not evaluated by AI. ## Not evaluated The badge on every Pre-search result, meaning the tender has not been judged against any filter. ## Filter A saved tender search that keeps running: keywords, countries, classification codes, an optional budget rule, an AI prompt, an AI model and an email schedule. Only an active filter searches, evaluates and sends digests. ## Active and paused The two states of a filter. Active filters run daily; paused filters are stored and do nothing. New filters start paused. ## AI prompt The free-text description on a filter of what makes a tender a good or bad fit for your company. Every tender the filter picks up is evaluated against it. Also called business criteria or business context. ## LLM model The large language model a filter uses for evaluation, chosen per filter from the list in the filter editor. ## AI evaluation The daily process in which each tender picked up by an active filter is judged by the filter's AI model against the filter's prompt, producing a verdict and a reasoning. Also called AI matching or tender evaluation. ## Evaluation One AI evaluation of one tender by one filter. Plans include a number of evaluations per billing cycle. ## Matched The verdict that the AI judged a tender a fit for the filter's prompt. ## Unmatched The verdict that the AI judged a tender not a fit for the filter's prompt. Unmatched results are kept so the prompt can be corrected. ## Reasoning The AI's written explanation of a verdict, shown under "Evaluation completed" in the Tender Info panel, in digests and on shared tender pages. ## Result An evaluated tender: the notice plus its verdict, reasoning, evaluation date and a snapshot of the filter it was evaluated by. Results live on the Results page. ## Filter snapshot The copy of a filter's criteria, prompt settings and model stored with each result at evaluation time, shown as Filter info in the Tender Info panel. Editing the filter later does not change it. ## Stuck tender A tender a filter picked up but could not evaluate because the plan's evaluations for the cycle, or the filter's own evaluation limit, were used up. ## Evaluations limit An optional per-filter cap on the number of tenders the filter may evaluate in a month. Called hard limit in some older material. ## AI summary A short AI-generated overview of a notice, generated on the first open of the notice and shown in the Pre-search side panel and on the notice page. Also called AI overview. ## Tender Info The panel that opens for an evaluated tender on the Results page or the Overview, showing the verdict, reasoning, details, original link and filter snapshot. ## Tender Detail The page or side panel showing a notice opened from the Pre-search tool. ## List A named collection of saved evaluated tenders under My Lists. Favorites is the default list. Also called Tender List. ## Pipeline status The per-list status of a saved tender: Unprocessed, Reviewing, Qualified, Bidding started, Proposal submitted, Won, Lost or Archive. ## Digest The email an active filter sends on its schedule, daily or weekly, covering the tenders it recently evaluated. ## Business Profile The private, structured description of your company on your account, used to generate draft filters. Never public. ## Supplier Profile The public company listing you can publish in the Supplier Directory: identity, logo, descriptions, tags and public contact details. ## Supplier Directory The public page listing published Supplier Profiles. ## Plan The subscription tier of an account: Basic (free), Standard, Premium or Corporate. A plan sets the active-filter allowance, the evaluations per cycle and the extras. ## Billing cycle The monthly period of a subscription, with a period start and end shown on the Subscription page. Evaluations are counted per cycle. ## Partner An organisation that offers Tender Navigator's search on its own website through the embedded widget and registers visitors through a co-branded page. Accounts created that way are affiliated with the partner. ## Platform tour The four short guided tours inside the dashboard, started from the Product tour button or a tour bar on the page. ## Getting-started checklist The five-row card on the dashboard Overview that tracks account creation, plan activation, the first filter, switching it on, and the first evaluated result. ## AI assistant The chat assistant in the bottom-right corner of the website and the dashboard, offered at three levels: Pre-Sales Agent, Q&A Agent and Full Assistant.