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Public sector and principal contractor work is won on paperwork, which is why most trade businesses never bid for it. Gaffer pulls live government tenders filtered to your trade, drafts the standard sections, keeps your best answers for reuse, and tracks the accreditations buyers ask for.
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It is rarely the work that stops people. It is the forty pages of questions before it.
Live notices from the government's Find a Tender service, filtered to the trades you actually work in, so opportunities arrive rather than needing to be hunted.
Standard sections — company background, health and safety, quality, environmental, social value — are drafted from your own business data rather than an empty box.
Every answer you write goes into the bid library, tagged and word-counted, so the next tender is assembled from proven content instead of rewritten.
Bids ask for accident records, training matrices, insurance, environmental policy and supply-chain checks. If you run on Gaffer, that evidence already exists.
30 UK schemes with their actual requirements, evidence, cost and renewal period — so CHAS or Constructionline is a checklist rather than a mystery.
Bids carry a client, deadline and estimated value, so tendering becomes a tracked pipeline rather than an occasional gamble.
Tendering tools sit on top of the operational data you are already producing.
More than most assume. Councils, housing associations, schools and NHS trusts procure routine trade work constantly, often split into regional lots sized for local firms. The barrier is almost always the paperwork rather than the capability.
No. It drafts the standard, repeatable sections from your business data so you are editing rather than starting cold. Pricing, technical method and anything specific to the contract remain yours — and should be.
It depends on the buyer. SSIP-recognised schemes like CHAS or SafeContractor come up constantly, Constructionline is common for public sector, and trade-specific registrations like Gas Safe or NICEIC are non-negotiable where they apply. Gaffer recommends schemes based on your trades.
No. Gaffer is one price with the whole platform included, so the tender tools, the bid library and the accreditation guidance are on the same plan as everything else. Standalone bid software and accreditation consultancy are usually the two costs that stop a small contractor bidding at all.
Yes, and most people do. Principal contractor PQQs and large commercial framework applications ask substantially the same questions as public procurement, so the same library answers both.
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