Discovery & sourcing

Discovery brings opportunities to you. Instead of manually checking tender portals, BidderOps pulls notices from external feeds, scores each one against your firm’s profile, and presents the best matches in an inbox.

The Discover inbox

The inbox lists sourced tenders ranked by match score. Each configured source gets its own tab, labeled with the name you gave the source (or its type if unnamed). This means two feeds of the same type (e.g. two RSS feeds) appear as separate tabs.

Each item shows:

• The match percentage and the reason behind it
• The tender’s title, sector, country, authority, and value

For each item you can:

• Import it — turning it into an opportunity in your pipeline, or
• Dismiss it — removing it from the inbox.

Imported items remain visible in the inbox with an Imported badge so you can see what you have already pulled in. Only new items show the Import and Dismiss buttons.

Your bid profile

Matching is driven by your bid profile, configured in Settings:

• Sectors you operate in
• Countries you target
• Keywords that signal a good fit
• A value range (minimum and maximum contract value)

The closer a tender aligns with these, the higher its match score. You can also apply an AI scoring boost that re-ranks a selection of tenders using a language model. The boost is run by Scout, one of your agents.

Sources

The Sources manager lets you add, edit, enable, and remove feed connectors, and shows the health of each (last status, last error, items found, last sync time). Each source has an optional Label field — the label is shown as the tab name in the Discover inbox. You can trigger an immediate Sync now, and feeds also refresh automatically on a daily schedule.

Supported source types include EU TED, the World Bank, UNDP, the IDB, SAM.gov (when enabled) and any custom RSS/Atom feed. See Tender sources for the details of each connector and what it needs.

Live search

To look for tenders right now, without waiting for a feed to sync, open Discover → Live search. It searches the portals directly: EU TED , the World Bank, UNDP, the IDB and, when enabled, SAM.gov  (US federal).

• Keywords: every word must match. Put a phrase in quotes, such as "feasibility study", to match it exactly.
• Countries: up to five, for where the work is performed.

Use either or both. All sources shows the newest open notices from every portal together; pick a portal’s tab to page through more of its results. Each notice shows a match score against your bid profile, and is marked In inbox or Imported if you already have it.

How each portal handles a search:

Closed notices (deadline passed) are left out. If a portal does not answer, its tab says so and the other results still show.

• Import adds the notice to your pipeline, exactly like importing from the inbox. For TED, World Bank, IDB and SAM.gov notices the deadline keeps refreshing from the portal.
• Save as feed (on a portal’s tab) turns the search into a source for that portal, so matching notices arrive in your inbox every day. World Bank, UNDP and IDB feeds follow one country each, and SAM.gov feeds cannot filter by country; the button explains when a search needs adjusting first.

Searching is open to every member. Importing and saving feeds need an editor role. The chat assistant and the MCP server can run live searches too.