OpenTNDR

Fair, transparent public procurement

OpenTNDR replaces legacy government tendering portals with one platform for publishing tenders, collecting bids, and running an anonymised, auditable evaluation — from PQQ to award.

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Tender events

14

Buyer organisations

16

Tenderer organisations

9

Bids in flight

The lifecycle

One platform for the whole journey

From first draft to final award — every event moves through the same clear, auditable stages.

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Draft
2
Published
3
Live
4
Evaluation
5
Awarded
6
Closed

Multi-user workspaces

Government bodies create an organisation workspace with role-based access for bid managers and collaborators.

Full tender lifecycle

Run PQQ, ITT, ITN and RFQ stages in one place, with multiple submission rounds and lots.

Sign-off before launch

Every document and pricing table is signed off — and permanently locked — before an event goes live.

Multi-lot bidding

Tenderers pick which lots they're bidding for and price only what applies to them.

Dynamic schedules

Build the exact table your job needs

Bill of materials, schedule of rates, staff, equipment — every schedule has its own columns and its own formula. Materials get a single rate. Equipment gets delivery, collection, and an hourly rate. Staff get separate day, night and weekend rates. You define it once; every tenderer prices against the same structure.

Equipment / plant schedule

ItemHourlyDeliveryCollectionHoursTotal
20-tonne excavator hire50.00100.00100.008600.00
10-tonne dumper hire32.0070.0070.006332.00

hours × hourlyRate + delivery + collection

Reference library

Pull items straight from the standard schedules

Pick NRM, RMM or CESMM and browse down through groups and subgroups to the exact line item — code, description and unit fill in automatically, branching the same way they do in a real SOR.

RMM reference schedule

  • RMM
  • G — Groundworks
    • G1 — Excavation
      • RMM-G1.1Excavate to reduce levels
      • RMM-G1.2Excavate trenches
    • G2 — Disposal
  • D — Drainage

Scoring

Weighting rolls all the way up

Weight individual items within a schedule, weight schedules against each other across the event, and split the fee formula into overhead, profit, or any custom component — each with its own weighting. Tenderers never see any of it; they just price.

Weighting rolls up the event

Tender eventevaluated total
Schedule A60%
Item 170%
Item 230%
Schedule B40%
Item 1100%
Fee formulaOverhead 50%Profit 50%

Fair evaluation

Anonymised until the event is decided

While an event is live or under evaluation, bid managers see only a pseudonym — never a company name. Queries, responses and the audit trail all respect the same rule. Identities are only revealed once the event is awarded or closed.

During evaluation

?

Bidder-A2J5F

Identity hidden

After completion

A

Acme Construction Ltd

Identity revealed

Scenarios

Benchmark a real job across every schedule

Pull items together from across the event's schedules into a single representative build, specify the quantities that job needs, and see each tenderer's cost computed from their own submitted rates — a genuine like-for-like comparison.

One benchmark build, priced per tenderer

Materials schedule
Equipment schedule
Labour schedule
Standard pier cap repair
Bidder-A2J5F4,275.00
Bidder-P91QX4,610.00
Bidder-C7ZT24,398.00

Audit trail

Every rate change, who made it, and when

Draft saves and submissions are all recorded — full pricing history for every tenderer on every schedule, ready to stand behind if a decision is ever challenged.

Full pricing trail, kept for every event

14:02Identity hiddenStructural Repair ScheduleDraft
14:07Identity hiddenStructural Repair ScheduleDraft
14:15Identity hiddenStructural Repair ScheduleSubmitted

Queries

Ask questions without revealing who's asking

Tenderers raise queries under their event pseudonym. Bid managers can answer privately, or share the answer with every tenderer at once for a level playing field.

Bidder-A2J5F

Can plant access the site outside the 7am–7pm working window?

Bid manager

Yes, extended hours access can be arranged — contact the site team.Shared with all tenderers

Procurement that's easy to run and fair to bid on

Set up your workspace in minutes — invite your team, and publish your first tender today.