Health & Social Care
8,891
58% repeat
We measured the UK public market
RFP software: the RFP platform.
rfp.quest is RFP software — an RFP platform watching the entire UK public market: every notice, every buyer, every award, moving as one.
It turns all of it into an instrument your team can win with.
We resolved 620,213 published awards to 188,953 canonical suppliers, which is the work that makes every retention figure below mean what it says.
Each grain behind this sentence is a real notice.
750,034
notices ingested
16,790
buyers observed
1,703
open right now
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RFP software · live ingest
The market arrives here first.
Every UK notice lands in the feed shortly after publication — the RFP software deduplicates it, values it and categorises it before you see it.
Watch the dissection happen on the right: these are real notices from the corpus, each one taken apart as it arrives.
Saved searches and daily alert digests mean the tenders that matter find you, not the other way round.
Live from the corpus1,703 open
Latest published notices
RFP platform · match scoring
Ranked for you, with reasons.
Every open tender is scored against your company — capability, scale, geography, history.
Not keyword soup: this is an RFP platform where each score explains itself, so your team argues about the shortlist, never the search.
Match score · worked example1 / 3
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Every score explains itself — click for the next
Three worked examples, not live notices — a match score is computed against
your own record, so there is nothing to score until you are signed in.
The public sees a market.
Our users see a machine.
Past this line — the instrument. What follows is signed-in rfp.quest.
RFP software · market intelligence
Twenty-four months of weather.
The chart beside this text is the real monthly rhythm of the UK market — every bar queryable inside the RFP platform.
Across the corpus the last winner comes back only about 1 in 13 times — but someone already on the buyer’s books comes back about 1 in 3.
The incumbent isn’t the previous supplier. It’s the roster — and that is still a door, if you can get onto it.
Notices per monthAug 24 — Jul 26
Notices in the corpus by month of publication. Live collection reached full
coverage in March 2026 — earlier months arrived by backfill and are under-counted, so the climb
on the left of this chart is our reach, not the market’s.
Same market, two answersroster re-win rate
measured on raw supplier text
31.3%
measured on canonical identity
188,953 canonical suppliers resolved from
620,213 awards. The struck figure is what you get if you trust
the spelling on the award notice.
RFP platform · why our numbers differ
The same firm, spelled nine ways.
Award notices name suppliers as free text, so one company arrives as nine different winners and every retention measure computed on that text is split across them.
Resolving them to one identity each moves the roster re-win rate up by 14.1% of itself — an understatement still carried by anyone measuring this market on the raw names.
That is the difference between reading the notices and measuring the market.
Construction
8,517
60% repeat
Business Services
6,879
63% repeat
Transport Services
5,393
56% repeat
IT Services
5,134
60% repeat
Software & IT Systems
4,509
62% repeat
Engineering & Architecture
4,425
61% repeat
Education & Training
2,563
61% repeat
Notices per division, trailing 12 months — live from the corpus
RFP software · forward calendar
We tell you when the door opens next.
Buyers re-tender in rhythms. From 33,383 buyer-cadence pairs we project when each door likely opens again: 1,258 expected windows in the next 90 days, worth £4.5bn.
Every projection shows the notices it was computed from.
When a window has passed, we say the door is open — we never call it a forecast.
Expected windowsNext 90 days
August 2026
Darlington Borough Council — IT Services
evidence: 31 notices · median gap 3.3 months · typical £79,863
YPO — Transport Equipment
evidence: 23 notices · median gap 4.4 months · typical £20m
Cambridgeshire County Council — Office & Computing Equipment
evidence: 21 notices · median gap 3.0 months · typical £79,576
London Borough of Sutton — IT Services
evidence: 13 notices · median gap 5.2 months · typical £90,000
RFP platform · buyer dossiers
Know the buyer before the notice exists.
Every buyer has a dossier: what they buy, on what rhythm, at what value — who they've awarded to, who's incumbent, and when incumbency ends.
Walk into the conversation months before the tender drops — the part of an RFP platform that earns its keep before a notice is even published.
Buyer dossierLocal Authority · Construction
Mid Devon District Council
32
notices
£384,819
typical value
3.2 mo
cadence
Notices per quarter, last twelve quarters — the rhythm is the dossier
1 in 13prev. winner re-wins
RFP software · requirements observatory
We read every requirement, so you don't.
137 distinct demands extracted from 99,431 notices — social value, carbon plans, safeguarding, certifications.
Every one carries the sentence it was found in, so you can check us.
When ISO 42001 — the AI management standard — appeared in its first ever UK tender, we were watching. We saw tender #1.
Signal leaguenotice-text mentions
Notices mentioning each signal, counted across the whole corpus rather than
sampled. The bars are square-rooted so a count of one is still visible beside a count of
thousands — read the number, not the length.
RFP platform · bid workspace
The bid, taken apart — and put back winning.
This is the half of the RFP software that writes: the workspace extracts every requirement from the pack and turns it into sections you can assign, draft, version and reuse.
Your response library compounds: every bid you write makes the next one faster.
Requirement extractionITT_pack_final_v3.pdf
Click a requirement to mark it drafted
RFP software · what the instrument holds
Everything we built, and its size.
Not a feature list — a parts list for the whole RFP platform, with the count of each part and where you can go and use it.
Requirements read
117,787
Named contacts
211,986
on 206,035 notices — buyer-side, never stored against a member.
Frameworks mapped
11,948
membership and expiry, per framework.
Ask the corpus
13 tools
the workspace copilot, by chat or by voice.
Deep dive
on demand
a dossier agent that stops and asks before it spends.
Weekly brief
Mondays
three things worth your week, by email.
Specialists
the network
bid people, listed by association with published work — never as its author.
Every count queried live from the corpus at page build
RFP platform · pipeline OS
A pipeline that argues with itself.
Every deal carries its own case for and against — evidence, value, cadence, incumbency — recomputed as the market moves.
Lifetime value is computed from the corpus, not typed into a box — the difference between RFP software that measures and a CRM that asks you to guess.
And on Monday morning, presentation mode puts the whole thing on the boardroom screen — legible from ten yards.
LTV=ƒ(corpus)
cadence × re-win rates
10yd
boardroom legibility
Deal · self-arguedWorked example
Example lot — a construction framework
£3.2m
For
Against
Bid—No-bid
A worked example, not a lot from the corpus — a deal is argued against your own
record, so there is nothing to compute until you are signed in.
RFP software · the beachhead
Your first win is a beachhead, not a payday.
Of 132,743 first wins in a category, 18.7% go on to a second buyer in that same category.
The median wait for that second buyer is 562 days.
Plan for eighteen months, not eighteen weeks — and pick an RFP platform that measures the wait instead of promising it away.
Median days to a second buyersame category
562
132,743
beachheads measured
24,797
added a second buyer
Canonical supplier identity, category entries with a dated first win. These are
rates among firms that won — we can see who won, never who bid and lost, so this is what follows
a first win, not proof that it caused one.
Across the whole corpus, on canonical supplier identity — measured, not modelled:
The first win is the one that compounds.
Two effects, both measured on the same corpus — you get kept, and you get spread.
Effect one · you get kept201,806 repeat awards
1 in 3
returns to the roster
1 in 13
returns to the last winner
Both measures, always together. The incumbent is the roster, not the previous
supplier — which is why the door is wider than it looks, and why being on the list is the job.
Effect two · you get spread86,122 suppliers
35%
won again
26%
won a second buyer
21%
won a second category
Suppliers whose first public-sector win is at least 24 months old, so the
count is earned rather than censored. These are rates among winners — we can see who won, never
who bid and lost, so this is what follows a first win, not proof that it caused it.
RFP platform · why we exist
Win managers,
not bid managers.
rfp.quest exists to win you the business — RFP software with new techniques, visible workings, and the team on hand for support and consultancy when you want humans in the loop.
Built in the open. Shipped weekly.
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