Knowledge Base
Tender Navigator Knowledge Base
The reference for how Tender Navigator works - searching tenders, filters, AI evaluation, results, email digests, accounts, plans and partner integrations - and practical guides to bidding for public tenders. Every page answers one question and can be read on its own.
New here? Start with the four articles below. Looking for a term? See the glossary. Last updated 6 October 2026.
Start here
From nothing to your first evaluated tender
- Step 1What is Tender Navigator?Tender Navigator is a tender discovery and AI-assisted tender evaluation platform: one search across 200+ procurement sources, saved filters, and an AI verdict per tender.
- Step 2How Tender Navigator worksThe Tender Navigator workflow end to end: search live tenders, save the search as a filter, let AI evaluate new tenders daily, read Matched and Unmatched results, organise and share them.
- Step 3Creating a Tender Navigator accountHow to sign up for Tender Navigator: the signup form, choosing a plan, confirming your email with a six-digit code, and what follows: the dashboard on the free Basic plan, or checkout for a paid plan.
- Step 4First-time setup in Tender NavigatorThe getting-started checklist in Tender Navigator: activate a plan, build a filter, turn it on, and see the first evaluated result. What each step needs and how long the first results take.
Guides
Bidding for public tenders
Practical guides for suppliers bidding for public contracts: screening, mandatory requirements, consortia, deadlines, clarifications, evaluation and award.
- How to spot a tender that is already decided
- Can one missed mandatory requirement disqualify a bid?
- Consortia, joint ventures and subcontracting in tenders
- Tender deadlines, late submissions and portal outages
- Clarification questions in public tenders
- How tenders are evaluated: price, quality and MEAT
- Sealed bids, debriefs and challenging a tender award
- Public procurement glossary for suppliers
Browse by topic
Using Tender Navigator, by topic
Getting started
What Tender Navigator is, how the product fits together, and the first steps from a new account to an evaluated tender.
Finding tenders
The Pre-search tool: keywords, countries, classification codes and budget, what the results mean, and how a search becomes a filter.
Filters
Filters are saved tender searches that run every day, and the AI evaluates the tenders they pick up. How to create, tune, activate and pause them.
AI features
How AI evaluation judges tenders against your filter, what Matched and Unmatched mean, the AI summary, the models, the assistant, and the limits of all of it.
Tender details and lists
What a tender notice page and the Tender Info panel show, sharing a tender with a public link, and organising tenders into lists and exports.
Tender sources and data
Which procurement sources and countries Tender Navigator covers, how often data and evaluations refresh, and why some fields are missing.
Email notifications
The digest emails a filter sends, how their schedule is set, and which other emails Tender Navigator sends.
Account and profiles
Your account details, signing in, the private Business Profile, the public Supplier Profile, and how your data is used.
Subscription and billing
Plans and their limits, checkout, changing or cancelling a plan, and invoices.
Partners and integrations
Partner pages, the embeddable tender search widget, and what registering through a partner means for your account.
Troubleshooting
What to check when a search returns nothing, results look irrelevant, an email did not arrive, or you cannot sign in.
FAQ and glossary
Short answers to the most common questions, and the terms Tender Navigator uses.
Did not find it?
The AI assistant in the bottom-right corner answers questions about the product, and the Support page reaches the team. What changed recently is on the Release Notes.