Days of research in one conversation. Answers while the question still matters.

Tenderlake Analyst is for companies that sell to the public sector. It is a connector that lets the AI assistant your team already uses read Tenderlake’s procurement record and analyse it for you. You ask a question in plain language – about a buyer, a competitor or a market – inside Claude, ChatGPT or whichever assistant you use, and the answer comes back built on award records, notices and forward plans rather than on whatever the model happens to remember. It adds a governed data source to an assistant you already control, and it reaches data that goes well beyond the standard Tenderlake interface.

Ask a general model about a public buyer and it will answer, fluently, from whatever it half-remembers. It has no award records, no notice history, and no way to tell you where it is guessing. Tenderlake Analyst gives that reasoning something real to stand on: every claim comes back with the notices, awards, dates, values and named buyers behind it, so you can check it before you act on it.

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and most major AI assistants. Analyst is a remote MCP connector, so any assistant that supports custom connectors can use it. The requirements on your side are that your assistant plan permits custom connectors, and that your own AI governance policy allows this one.

Yes. Tenderlake Analyst runs alongside a paid Tenderlake Monitor subscription rather than replacing it, and it is not available on the free trial. It is metered separately in credits, which your workgroup administrator buys. See Tenderlake Monitor pricing for the subscription itself.

Four kinds. Know the buyer: what they have awarded, to whom and at what values, and what their planning notices signal about the next twelve months. Know the competition: what a named competitor has won, from which buyers and in which categories, and where their position is thinnest. Read the market: where demand for the kind of work you sell is strongest, and whether spend is growing, flat or consolidating into fewer suppliers. Find the route in: whether a buyer buys through frameworks, dynamic purchasing, direct award or open competition, and whether a given framework is worth the effort of getting on.

The first answer is the start, not the end. The second and third questions, asked in the same conversation, are usually where the value is.

More than a decade of awards, notices and forward plans, covering over two million organisations. Buyers and suppliers are name-matched, so one buyer reads as one buyer however it was written down, and Analyst searches the record by meaning rather than by keyword. What you can reach is bounded by your own plan’s regions.

Yes. The record is translated across EU languages, and a competitor’s wins are matched by company name whatever language the notice was published in. Sizing up a supplier’s position in three countries is one question, not three questions in three languages.

Yes. Analyst pulls what that organisation has bought over any period you choose, who they bought it from, at what published values, and what their more recent notices suggest is coming. You get it in the time it takes to read it, not the week it takes to commission it.

Ask it like this: “Brief me on this buyer: what have they bought over the last four years, who from, and what do they appear to be planning next?”

Yes. Analyst identifies the incumbent suppliers at a named buyer and shows which parts of the work each one holds, so you can see where a position is entrenched and where it is a single contract that could move.

Ask it like this: “Who holds the work at this buyer today, and which of them looks hardest to displace?”

Yes, where they have published planning or prior-information notices. These often reveal appetite and budget in a theme months before anything is formally procured – by which point it is usually too late to influence.

Ask it like this: “What has this buyer signalled it plans to buy, and what does that suggest about the next twelve months?”

Yes. Analyst shows whether an organisation procures through frameworks, dynamic purchasing systems, direct award or open competition, and which of those routes carries the real spend in your category. That determines whether you can be bought at all without waiting for a tender.

Ask it like this: “How does this buyer procure this category, and which route carries most of the value?”

Often, yes. Large public bodies buy through agencies, arms-length organisations and shared-service bodies rather than the department whose name is on the strategy. Analyst shows which entity the awards were actually made by.

Ask it like this: “Which parts of this organisation are actually running the procurement in this category?”

Yes. Analyst maps a competitor’s wins across countries, buyers, categories and published values over any period, which is a view no single tender document contains and no competitor publishes.

Ask it like this: “What has this competitor won across public sector in the last four years, and from which buyers?”

Yes. You can look at one buyer and one competitor together to see whether their position is a single contract or a spread of work built up over years.

Ask it like this: “How much of this buyer’s spend does this competitor hold, and how long have they held it?”

Yes. The same data that shows where a competitor wins shows where they are absent: buyer types they have never sold to, countries they have not entered, and categories where nobody has an established position.

Ask it like this: “Where does this competitor have no presence, and which buyers has nobody locked down?”

Yes, and it is one of the most useful things Analyst does. Every buyer a competitor has sold to is an organisation that has already decided to spend money on what you sell, which makes them a better prospect than a cold list.

Ask it like this: “Which buyers has this competitor sold to, and which of them look most approachable?”

Yes. Analyst can put two named suppliers side by side over the same period to show where they overlap, where each one dominates, and which of them is actually growing.

Ask it like this: “Compare these two competitors over the last four years: where do they overlap and where does each one lead?”

This is one of the most important things Analyst handles for you. Suppliers and buyers appear under trading names, legal entities, abbreviations, translations and misspellings, often ten or more variants for a single company. Analyst consolidates them into one organisation before it counts anything.

Done by hand this is not just slow, it produces undercounts you have no way of detecting, which makes rivals look weaker than they are.

Ask it like this: “Find every name variant this company appears under, then show me their full award history.”

Yes. Analyst shows how much published activity exists in a category and country, whether it is growing or flat, which buyer types are driving it, and whether spend is spreading across suppliers or consolidating into fewer.

Ask it like this: “Is there real, repeatable demand for this in this country, and who is winning it today?”

Yes. The same questions can be run across multiple markets and compared on the same measures, which is usually more useful than a deep read of one country chosen for other reasons.

Ask it like this: “Compare demand for this across these four countries: where is it strongest and where is it growing fastest?”

Yes. Analyst can identify buyers who have started purchasing something in the last year or two and were not doing so before, which is where an early entrant has the most room.

Ask it like this: “Which buyers have started procuring this recently, and which countries have not started yet?”

Yes. Analyst shows what a current customer is buying in adjacent categories and who supplies it, which is often a shorter path to revenue than winning a new logo.

Ask it like this: “What else is this buyer spending on in adjacent categories, and who currently supplies it?”

It sets a floor rather than a ceiling. Small purchases below publication thresholds, buying through resellers and framework call-offs that never name the supplier all sit outside the published record, so a supplier’s visible position understates their real one.

That applies to your competitors as much as to you, and Analyst will tell you where the gaps are rather than filling them with guesses.

Often, yes. Where a buyer holds a suitable framework or dynamic purchasing system and you sit on it, they can frequently just place an order. Analyst shows which vehicles could carry the purchase and whether you are on any of them.

Ask it like this: “Which frameworks or DPS could this buyer use to buy this, and who currently sits on them?”

Yes. Membership means nothing on its own. What matters is who has actually called off through the vehicle, how much has flowed through it, and whether that spend is spread across suppliers or captured by two or three. Analyst shows the call-off record, not just the supplier list.

Ask it like this: “Who has called off through this framework, for how much, and is it worth us qualifying?”

Yes, and this is a common situation. Analyst identifies the suppliers who actively call off through the vehicle you would need, which turns a blocked opportunity into a list of credible partners to sell through.

Ask it like this: “We have a lead here but no framework position. Who calls off through the relevant vehicles and could we team with them?”

Yes. Answers cite the notices, awards, dates, values and named buyers they rest on, which is what makes them usable in a pursuit review or a board paper. You can follow up in the same conversation to pull any single claim back to the record it came from.

Yes, and it is worth asking. Analyst separates what the data proves from what it suggests, and you can ask it directly which findings are evidenced and which are inference, and to flag anything to verify before it goes outside your organisation.

One practical habit: Analyst consolidates the name variants it knows about, but if a firm or a buyer still looks missing, ask it to try other spellings and trading names.

Your Tenderlake workgroup administrator enables Analyst for the workgroup and buys credits, then grants access to individual colleagues. Each colleague adds a custom connector in their own AI assistant, signs in with their usual Tenderlake login and approves it – about a minute per person, with no keys or codes to copy.

One thing to know afterwards: they need to start a new chat, because connector tools are not attached to conversations that already exist.

No. Analyst is a remote connector reached over HTTPS. Nothing is installed on user devices or on your network, no new AI model is introduced, and your users never handle an API key – they sign in on Tenderlake’s own login page.

No. Access is off by default and granted per person by your own workgroup administrator, who can revoke it at any time. A colleague who has not been granted access is told to ask their administrator, and no credentials are issued.

It is metered in credits rather than sold as another monthly seat, so you pay for what you ask. You are charged for two things: each search your assistant runs, and each row of the procurement record it brings back. The assistant’s thinking is not metered.

Questions about your own folders and saved searches are not metered at all – they are included in your Tenderlake subscription – and setting up the buyers and competitors you track is free. You are charged when you reach into the wider market. Ask us for current credit prices.

Yes. Your workgroup shares one credit balance, and your administrator can set a monthly credit cap per person, with an email alert when somebody is close to their limit. A cap of zero stops that person’s Analyst calls without removing their access, and caps reset at the start of each month.

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