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Win public works tenderswith the tender file already read.
Flow, the Tendersight agent, finds construction tenders, reads every document in the file and fills the bill of quantities with your rates.
Every date and guarantee cites its page
Rates come from your team
Works notices from 27 EU countries
Estimators set the rates. Flow reads the rest of the tender file.
Flow reads the instructions, specifications, contract conditions and the bill of quantities, and returns each date, guarantee and requirement with the page it comes from. Your team decides the price and the method.
What goes into a works offer.
The information sits across instructions, specifications, contract conditions and forms, often several hundred pages in total.
Bill of quantities
Hundreds of measured items in the authority's spreadsheet, each needing a unit rate and a checked total.
Method statement and programme
How the works will be phased, staffed and scheduled, written against the award criteria.
References and key staff
Completed contracts of similar type and size, and CVs for the site manager and engineers.
Guarantees and insurance
Bid and performance guarantees, insurance cover and their validity, often set out in different documents.
Site visits and clarifications
Visit dates, questions to the contracting authority and answers that amend the tender documents.
Subcontractors and partners
Declarations, shares of the works and commitments from every company named in the offer.
From notice to priced offer, in one thread.
Flow shows each step as it works and keeps the results in the workspace next to the conversation.
Describe the type of works, the regions and the contract size. Flow chooses the CPV codes, filters by place of performance, value and deadline, and saves the search as an alert.
In-depth analysis covers the instructions, specifications, contract conditions and forms. It extracts requirements, evidence requests, award criteria and risks while your team works on other bids.
Flow searches the completion certificates and CVs you upload for what the qualification criteria ask and answers with the quote and the page. Where a reference falls short, it says so.
Give Flow your unit rates. It fills the authority's spreadsheet, recalculates the totals and asks for confirmation before the financial offer changes.
Filled forms are saved as copies and the originals stay untouched. Files marked for external submission are checked for internal notes before they are saved.
Requests from construction bid teams.
Examples of work that contractors, estimators and bid writers hand to Flow in a sentence.
- Search
Find open road resurfacing tenders in Bavaria with an estimated value between €2M and €8M.
- Documents
List every guarantee in the hospital car park tender, with the amount, the validity period and the page it is on.
- Pricing
Fill the authority's bill of quantities with the rates from our unit rate sheet and recalculate the totals.
- Schedule
Every weekday at 06:30, find new notices for CPV 45233000 in Austria and Slovenia and flag the ones that require a site visit.
- Plan
Prepare the technical proposal for the bridge rehabilitation tender. Start with a plan I can approve.
- Market
Show our main competitors for CPV 45231300 in Romania and the regions they cover.
Long jobs and routine checks, run by Flow.
Scheduled searches, requests to subcontractors, price research and plans for large tender files. Each one starts as a sentence in the conversation.
Requests to subcontractors, drafted
Flow drafts the email with the work package, quantities and deadline. Your team checks it and sends it from its own mailbox.
Price research with sources
When a rate needs a reference point, Flow searches the web for current material prices and lists every source it used.
A plan before a large tender starts
For a large tender file, Flow proposes a plan and waits for approval. Side agents can take separate parts, such as the specifications and the references.
See Flow on one of your works tenders.
In a demo we run a live tender file through Flow and walk through the offer with your estimators.
Flow does the reading. Your team makes the calls.
A works offer depends on judgement about rates, method and risk. This is how the work divides.
Bill of quantities
- Flow
- Fills the authority's spreadsheet with the rates you provide and recalculates the totals.
- Your team
- Sets the unit rates and checks the grand total.
Method statement
- Flow
- Drafts sections against the requirements, using your templates and earlier proposals.
- Your team
- Decides the phasing, resources and approach.
Qualification
- Flow
- Finds the references and CVs in your uploaded documents that match each criterion, with page citations.
- Your team
- Chooses which projects and people to put forward.
Dates and guarantees
- Flow
- Lists every deadline, site visit and guarantee with the quote it comes from.
- Your team
- Arranges the bank guarantee and attends the site visit.
Submission
- Flow
- Checks files marked for external submission for internal notes before saving them.
- Your team
- Signs, uploads and submits the offer on the portal.
Construction CPV codes.
Start an alert from any code below, or tell Flow what you build and where.
- 45000000Construction work
- 45200000Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
- 45210000Building construction work
- 45214000Construction work for buildings relating to education and research
- 45230000Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork
- 45300000Building installation work
- 45400000Building completion work
- 71000000Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
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Questions from construction teams
How does Flow find public works tenders?
Describe the works, regions and contract size you bid for. Flow searches notices from 27 EU countries by CPV code, place of performance, estimated value and deadline, and can save the search as an alert or run it as a scheduled task.
Can Flow price a bill of quantities?
Flow fills the authority's bill of quantities with the unit rates your team provides, recalculates the totals and saves a filled copy. It does not invent rates, and changes to the financial offer wait for your confirmation.
Can Flow read large tender files with scanned documents?
Yes. In-depth analysis reads every document in the tender file, including scanned PDFs, and extracts requirements, required documents, risks and clarification points. It runs in the background and typically takes 1 to 20 minutes.
Can Flow help with subcontractors and consortium partners?
Flow lists the declarations and documents the tender requires from each subcontractor or partner, and drafts requests for quotation for your team to send. It does not send emails or contact anyone on your behalf.
What stays with our team?
The rates, the technical approach, the choice of references and the submission. Flow shows each step, asks before it changes the offer or documents, and checks files marked for external submission for internal notes.
Put Flow on the next works tender you price.
Start free, upload a tender file and ask Flow for the dates, guarantees and quantities.