Bid management software for architecture firms
Bid management software for architects and engineers who answer public tenders: TenderDesk finds the architecture tenders and competitions published in TED (the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily), BOAMP (France), BASE (Portugal), TenderNed (Netherlands), simap.ch (Switzerland) and Find a Tender (United Kingdom), explains each one in plain language, helps you assemble the team, and gives every bid one shared workspace with documents, checklist, tasks and deadlines, from the notice to the submission.
From the notice to the submission
1. Find
A feed of public architecture tenders and competitions from more than 30 European countries, read four times a day and scored 0–100 for real design content. Alerts by country, building type, budget and floor area.
2. Decide
An AI brief per notice: scope, budget, key dates, who can bid, what to check before committing. The original notice and documents one click away, with deadline reminders.
3. Assemble
Find the structural, MEP, landscape, cost and other partners the tender asks for among verified firms, or invite your usual ones by email. Roles and shares are written down from day one.
4. Submit
One workspace per bid: folders for the administrative pack, references, technical offer and fees; a checklist of what the tender requires; tasks per partner; messages; and a branded PDF export of the package.
Made for how a design team bids
General bid software is built for contractors and suppliers: price schedules, compliance matrices, supply chains. An architecture bid is different. It is won on references, on the team and on the quality of a design response, and it is put together by four or five independent firms in a few weeks. TenderDesk's workspace follows that shape: the team and its roles first, then the document checklist read from the tender, then the tasks each partner owes, with the deadline visible to all of them.
The company profile does double duty. It holds your references, disciplines, sectors, countries and certifications once, so that every bid starts from them, and it makes your firm findable by other practices looking for a partner (see the directory of firms).
What it costs
One plan, sized by the number of colleagues who lead bids: €59 per month for 1 person, €99 for up to 5 people and €149 for any number of colleagues (excl. VAT), covers everything: the feed, scores, saved searches, alerts, the company page, partner search, and leading bids with partner invitations, the original documents and the AI briefs. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Partner firms you invite never pay. The full detail is on the pricing page.
Run your next bid on TenderDesk
Start your 7-day free trial: see the feed, set alerts and open a workspace when a tender is worth it. Paid plans: €59 per month for 1 person, €99 for up to 5 people and €149 for any number of colleagues (excl. VAT). See the pricing.
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- What does bid management software do for an architecture firm?
- It replaces the spreadsheet, the shared drive and the email chains a practice uses to chase public tenders: it finds the notices, tells the team what each one asks for, keeps the partners, documents, tasks and deadlines of each bid in one place, and gets the submission out on time. TenderDesk does this for public architecture tenders and design competitions in Europe.
- How is TenderDesk different from general tender portals and bid software?
- It is built around how architects bid: the feed is scored for real design content instead of CPV codes, the brief is written for a design team, partner search is by discipline (structural, MEP, landscape, cost…), and the workspace is organised the way a competition or tender submission is organised: team, references, administrative pack, technical offer, fee proposal.
- What does it cost?
- One plan: €59 per month for 1 person, €99 for up to 5 people and €149 for any number of colleagues (excl. VAT) covers the scored feed, saved searches, alerts, the company page, partner search and your own bid workspaces, with partner invitations, the original documents and AI briefs. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial, and the partner firms you invite never pay.
- Do our partners need to pay?
- No. You invite them by email; they sign in with their company email, add their company details once (every company on TenderDesk is checked) and join your workspace free, for as long as the bid runs. They see the folders and tasks assigned to them and drop their documents in.
- Who can see our files?
- Only that bid's team: your firm, the partner firms you accepted and the guests you invited. Files are stored privately and downloaded through short-lived links. When the bid closes, partners and guests lose access and your firm keeps the record.
- Which languages does it work in?
- The platform, the briefs and the emails are available in 23 European languages, from English, French and German to Polish, Greek and Finnish; a mixed team sees the same workspace each in their own language.