Live UK government tenders, filtered to your trade
Public contracts are published every day on the government’s Find a Tender service, and almost no trade business looks. Gaffer pulls that feed in, filters it to your trades, and lets you bookmark the ones worth pursuing and start a bid from them in one step.
Part of growth in Gaffer, which replaces hoping for word of mouth.
Enterprise plan.This one sits on the contact-sales Enterprise plan with multi-site support and white-label. See what that includes →
Reviews, referrals, campaigns and tenders — the growth engine, built in.
Collect reviews after every job, run referral and affiliate schemes, send campaigns to the right customers, and find and write public-sector tenders with the bid library.
Repeat and referred work costs nothing to win. Gaffer goes and gets it.
Tender opportunities are one of the 10 things in growth. See the rest →
- Filtered against the trades your business works in
- Deadlines visible so shortlists stay actionable
- Links through to the official notice for full documentation
- Works alongside the tender writer and bid library
Step 06 of the job: paid
The customer pays by card, Apple Pay or Direct Debit. Xero or QuickBooks are updated. A review request goes out. And eleven months later, the annual service reminder books the next job.
Growth is where tender opportunities sits, and that is the step it shows up in most. The rest of the job — quoting, scheduling, certificates, invoicing and payment — runs in the same system, on the same record. See the whole job →
What are tender opportunities for?
Public contracts are published every day on the government’s Find a Tender service, and almost no trade business looks. Gaffer pulls that feed in, filters it to your trades, and lets you bookmark the ones worth pursuing and start a bid from them in one step. Public contracts are published every day on the government’s Find a Tender service, and almost no trade business looks.
Do review requests annoy customers?
One message after a completed job, at a delay you set. Customers who are happy are pointed at your public review page and the ones who are not come to you first, which is the right way round.
What counts as a referral?
A link tied to a customer. When someone follows it and becomes a job, the referral is recorded against them along with whatever reward you chose to offer.
Which plan is it on?
Tender opportunities sit on the Enterprise plan, alongside multi-site support, white-label and a dedicated account manager. Everything else in Gaffer is on every paid plan; talk to us and we will tell you honestly whether you need Enterprise or not.
The rest of Growth
All 10 →- Pay introducers the commission their referrals actually earned
- Write the answer once, reuse it on every tender
- Fill quiet weeks by emailing customers you already have
- Win back the customers worth keeping
- Ask after a job and score your NPS
- Ask how the job went, while they still remember
- Give every customer a referral link and a reward
- Turn finished jobs into ratings you can show
- Write tender responses without starting from a blank page
Tender opportunities sit on the Enterprise plan.
Multi-site, white-label, API access and the tender tools are not on the self-serve plans. Tell us how many branches and how many people and we will tell you in one email whether you need Enterprise — most businesses under about fifteen do not. The 14-day trial gives you everything else with no card.
Founding members: first 100 businesses get 50% off every paid plan, for as long as they stay subscribed.