What if I already have a bid writer?+
BidHound doesn't write bids. It tells your writer what to focus on. The team keeps doing the craft. BidHound just stops them burning Friday afternoons on tenders that were unwinnable from the brief.
Will my matches be good from day one?+
Matching is live from day one. A first scored shortlist arrives within a few minutes, then sharpens over the following hour as a deeper analysis completes. Precision tightens as you mark wins and losses through the pipeline, and the system reads your decisions and adjusts what it surfaces.
Where does the data come from?+
Official UK government sources: Contracts Finder, Find a Tender (UK-wide), and planning notices. Continuously fetched, classified, and scored the moment they're published. No scraping, no guesswork, no stale data.
What about Scotland and Wales?+
Scotland is covered: BidHound pulls Scottish tenders directly from Public Contracts Scotland, including below-threshold notices, alongside England, Northern Ireland and UK-wide coverage via Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Wales (Sell2Wales) is on the roadmap — Find a Tender already carries all above-threshold Welsh notices in the meantime.
How accurate is the scoring?+
Each tender is classified against your full profile (services, accreditations, frameworks, past work), then sharpened by the winners and losers you mark. You'll always see the breakdown behind a score (capability, budget, deadline, track record), not just the number. The more signal you feed it, the tighter the shortlist gets.
Can BidHound show me contracts before they're advertised?+
Yes — that's the Renewals view. BidHound tracks 24,000+ live public contracts approaching their end date, matched against your profile and sorted by how soon the buyer is likely to re-tender (usually 3 to 6 months before expiry). Each row names the incumbent who holds the contract today. Where a buyer never published an end date, we recover an estimate from the original tender notice and mark it clearly as estimated. You can also flip to the whole market and search every tracked contract by buyer, title, or incumbent.
How much does BidHound cost?+
Start free, no card: the full scored feed, the daily digest, and your first 20 graded analyses free — each with its letter grade, win read, and the evidence behind it. After 20 it locks: your feed pauses, and you keep everything you’ve already saved in your Pipeline. We’ll still email you a weekly count of the new matches you’re missing, and subscribing starts everything again. The £49/month plan analyses every match, unlimited. Cancel anytime. Bid managers running several companies have their own plan: from £49/month per company, with £150 covering 3–5 — and your first two client companies are free to try.
Can I cancel anytime?+
Yes. One click from Settings cancels your subscription. No phone calls, no retention emails, no quarterly lock-in. You keep access until the end of your paid period.
Is my profile data secure?+
Your company profile, pipeline, and decisions are scoped to your account and stored on servers in the European Economic Area, which is covered by UK GDPR adequacy rules. We never share profile data between accounts; we don't sell or analyse it for any other purpose, and nothing you enter is ever used to train AI models. The full rundown (encryption, backups, sub-processors) is on our
security page.
Who's behind BidHound?+
BidHound is run by a small UK team. It started with me, Philip. I'd spent twelve years split between sound design for UK film and TV and software development, until the two crossed over when I built a lead-scanner to find my own freelance work. That tool became BidHound, pointed at UK public tenders. We keep things deliberately small, which means every email, feature, and bug fix gets a direct human reply. No call centre, no ticket queue.
Are you affiliated with other companies called BidHound?+
No. BidHound is a UK company focused exclusively on UK public sector tenders. We have no affiliation with other companies of similar names operating in other markets.