Bid managerDevelopment consultancy
Three deadlines this week and a portal she checked four days late.
Reads first: UNGM
Who reads through Given.
Six people who bid on donor and government work. Different desks, same Tuesday.
Programme directorNGO
Knows the field better than anyone. Has nobody to watch the portals.
Reads first: UN
BD leadEngineering firm
Wins work by referral. Loses work he never knew existed.
Reads first: World Bank
Creative directorDesign agency
Bids the communication lots nobody tells the designers about.
Reads first: EU TED
Proposal writerFreelance
Paid per bid. Every hour on the wrong tender is unpaid.
Reads first: whichever client called
Country managerContractor
Bids World Bank work in two countries with one spreadsheet.
Reads first: World Bank
Not on this list?
The pilot will tell you
If you bid on donor or government work, four weeks is enough to know.
Built for our own bid desk. Now four desks.
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We built Given because we were losing tenders we should have seen. Four organisations now read theirs through it — Oneclickroad, TalkingSense, a development consultancy, and us. None of them has used it for a year yet. Bring your last quarter's bids and we'll show you what you didn't see.
The desks that read through it.
Given is new, so this list is short and every name on it is real. We add a name only once that organisation has said we may.
Customer
Oneclickroad
Reads through Given for digital and infrastructure lots across donor programmes.
Customer
TalkingSense
Reads through Given for communication, research and community-engagement lots.
Customer
Development consultancy
Women-led, working across the development sector in Pakistan. Named here once consent is on file.
Built it
Aitropolis
We built Given for our own bid desk, and still read through it every morning.
A morning with Given.
06:00
Reads
UN, World Bank, UNGM, EU TED. Nothing is filtered by keyword. Everything is scored.
Tenders scored so far
Questions people ask in the first minute.
Does it read grants?
No. It reads procurement: UN, World Bank, UNGM and EU TED. Grant portals are a different thing and we don't pretend to cover them.
Which portals, exactly?
Four today: the UN's own tender pages, World Bank procurement, UNGM, and EU TED. Plus any email digest you forward to it.
Whose data is this?
The tenders are public. Your profile, your markets and what you do with the list are yours, and stay yours.
How is the score made?
Each tender is read against your 13 capability areas and the markets you work in, then given a fit score. It is a fit score, not a promise of winning.
Can I stop?
Yes. It is monthly. Email us and it stops at the end of the month.
Who else uses it?
Four organisations so far. Oneclickroad and TalkingSense have said we may name them; the fourth is a development consultancy we’ll name when they’re ready. And us — Aitropolis’s own bid desk reads through it every morning.
Bring your last quarter.
Tell us who you are and which markets you bid in. We'll come back within one working day with a date to load your profile.