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The Public Sector Viability Audit

Stop losing months to tenders that were already gone. Bid like you've sat on the buyer's side.

More than eleven years of buyer-side judgement, applied to your business. You get the contracts you can credibly win, the gaps that would stop you, and a written verdict: Proceed, Conditional or Not Recommended.

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£1,500. A written report and a call with your leadership.

You've said one of these yourself

Real UK suppliers, their own words. Established companies with proper delivery teams and accreditations on the wall.

"We've been on the framework, we've not won any work."
Founder, tech consultancy
"When these tenders land, you've got four weeks to do it. It becomes the all-consuming activity for four weeks, everything else gets dropped, and then you come at the end of it, you haven't won it, and you're just a month behind on everything else."
Commercial director, rehab services company
"So many times, we finally get one of the automated emails through Find a Tender, and it's too late and it's already gone."
Co-founder, environmental consultancy

None of these companies lacked capability. They were chasing the wrong contracts, and nobody on the buyer's side ever told them. One founder said it plainest:

"There's just something which is not clicking."

Three ways to play the next tender

Every route has a price. Only one is paid before you know if the contract was ever yours to win.

Keep going as you are

A month behind

Four weeks with everything else dropped, then silence instead of feedback. In a supplier's own words: "you haven't won it, and you're just a month behind on everything else." That cost repeats with every tender you chase on instinct.

Pay for bid support first

£950+ per bid

Professional bid support starts at £950 a bid, ours included, and you pay it win or lose. Money well spent on the right contract. Wasted on the wrong one.

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Get the verdict first

£1,500, once

You find out which contracts you can credibly win, and whether public sector deserves your time at all, before the next four-week sprint swallows your company.

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Written by the person who used to mark your bids

Jennifer Law, founder of Tendigo

Jennifer Law spent more than 11 years on the buyer's side of UK government procurement, across central government departments, agencies and public bodies, on contracts from £50k to £750m. She didn't just score bids. She built the tender packs suppliers responded to: the invitations to tender, the evaluation frameworks, the weighted criteria and the quality questions, compiled end to end for teams across government. When she reads a tender pack now, she reads it as the person who wrote it.

The scale is real: a £60m procurement designed and run from strategy to award, an £18m renegotiation on one national contract. For you, it means something simpler. She wrote the scoring and sat on the panels. She knows why a decent answer gets a three out of five, and what a five looks like, because she was the one deciding.

She founded Tendigo to put all of it on the supplier's side of the table. No bid writing on success fees, no dashboards, no noise. She tells companies which contracts they can credibly win, and when the honest answer is none, she says that too. She'd rather lose a sale than soften a verdict.

What you hold at the end

The audit is a written report plus a 30 to 60 minute call with your leadership. Five deliverable areas, then the verdict.

Your capability profile. What your track record and accreditations actually prove to an evaluator, written down.

Commercial viability assessment. Your revenue model, margin, cash flow and delivery structure, tested against public sector reality.

Your target contract band. The value range you can credibly win, identified and named. Eligibility is not viability.

Capability gap analysis. Which gaps are fixable in months, and which are structural blockers you shouldn't spend money fighting.

Live opportunities. Three to five current or recent tenders relevant to you, each with go or no-bid reasoning.

The verdict, in writing: Proceed, Conditional or Not Recommended. No hedging. If public sector isn't viable for your business, the audit says so and saves you a year of finding out the hard way.

£1,500, fixed.

Clients with a Proceed verdict can move on to TenderRadar, our monitoring retainer from £399 a month. The audit always comes first. No exceptions, because the retainer is only worth paying for when the targeting is right.

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The honest track record

Small numbers, real ones. Every figure here comes from our own records.

11+ years
Inside UK government procurement, evaluating and awarding
249
UK suppliers analysed to sharpen who this is for
"The final report was quick, useful and linked directly to our understanding, but brought it all together in one neat package. I particularly appreciated the blunt and no nonsense approach, helps cut through the usual business BS and drive action."
David, technology consultancy
"Jennifer carried out an exceptionally thorough assessment of our business, quickly identifying strengths, risks, and opportunities that we simply wouldn't have seen without her expertise. Her approach is structured, insightful, and grounded in deep knowledge of how public sector procurement really works."

Worth £1,500 of your money, or not

The audit is selective on purpose. Read both columns before you ask for it.

Built for you if

  • You're a UK supplier turning over £150k to £10m with a real delivery team
  • You sell, or want to sell, to local authorities, health bodies or central government
  • You're on a framework and not winning, or bidding and losing without feedback
  • You'd rather hear "public sector isn't for you" than waste a year proving it

Keep your money if

  • You turn over under £150k, or sell only to consumers
  • You want bids written on a success fee. We don't do that, ever
  • You want a portal login and a feed of every tender going
  • You're after reassurance rather than an answer

We don't sell dashboards. We sell a decision.

Find out if public sector deserves your time

The audit is £1,500, delivered as a written report and a call with your leadership. If the honest answer is no, that's the answer you'll get.

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