Frequently Asked Questions

We aggregate publicly published procurement notices from official UK sources: the Find a Tender Service, Contracts Finder, OJEU/TED, and Open Contracting data feeds. The underlying notices are public data, published under the Open Government Licence. What we add is the EV-charging focus: classification, monitoring, and analysis on top.

You can search those portals directly. They're free. The difference is that EVTenders filters the firehose down to the EV-charging tenders that matter to you, classifies and enriches them, watches them for changes, and tells you the moment something relevant appears, so you're not running the same searches across four portals every morning. On Pro, we also add the bid-decision intelligence the raw notice doesn't give you.

The tender is still officially listed as open or in planning, but the data suggests it is probably no longer taking bids. We flag it as presumed closed when either there has been no update on it for nine months, or its contract start date has passed and its bid deadline has already closed. We flag it rather than hide it, in case it is a genuinely delayed start. If a tender's start date has passed but you can still bid on it, we leave it as active.

Because the buyer has not published a closing or award notice, so we cannot be certain it is closed. Presumed closed is our honest best guess from the available data, not a confirmed status.

Yes, automatically. If the buyer publishes any fresh notice, the flag clears at the next weekly refresh and the tender shows as active again.

Every week. The presumed-closed flag is recomputed in a weekly refresh, so it always reflects the most recent notices.

Yes. Saved searches let you filter to the regions, buyers and criteria you care about, and your alerts are matched to those filters. Your daily digest is a roundup of all new EV opportunities.

A market-intelligence view of UK public-sector EV charging procurement: live bid opportunities, who's winning, who's buying, and the market trends shaping it, with a weekly briefing on what matters now. It's built on the same published tender data behind the rest of EVTenders, read through analysis lenses.

It's AI-generated. For each tender, our models read the tender documents and draw on deep supplier and award history and wider market data to produce the analysis: who's well-placed to bid, the key requirements, the buyer's profile, and the competitive landscape. It's built to speed up your qualify / no-bid decision and give you a running start on the bid, not to replace your own judgement. We're upfront that it's AI-generated so you know exactly what you're reading.

We work from the published notice and public market data, both of which can contain errors or omissions, so treat our analysis as decision support, not a guarantee. Always verify against the official tender documents before you bid. (This is also set out in our Terms.)

The intelligence isn't exclusive; other subscribers may see the same tender and analysis. The edge is speed and qualification: getting to the right opportunities earlier and ruling out the wrong ones faster.

The hub and the headline figures are open to everyone. With a free account you get the full weekly briefing, all four lenses (opportunities, suppliers, buyers, trends), bid signals, and two years of history. Pro adds the decision layer: who should bid on each opportunity and why with the evidence, supplier momentum, full buyer profiles and what they're likely to tender next, and the full historical archive.

The underlying tender data updates continuously as new notices and awards are published. The written briefing (what matters now, and each lens narrative) is refreshed weekly. Every block is stamped with the week it covers, so you always know how current it is.

Every figure is computed from the published procurement records we track, not estimated or generated. Each synthesised claim carries source links to the underlying tenders, so you can trace any number back to the record it came from.

Committed totals sum disclosed award values: money that has actually been awarded. Pipeline figures are notice ceilings: the upper bound a tender could be worth, not committed spend. We keep the two separate and never add them together, so a headline number never overstates what has really been spent.

Not every tender record states its region or category, so a regional or sector breakdown speaks for the subset where that detail is confirmed. We show the coverage (for example, "region confirmed on 38%") rather than implying a slice is complete, so you can see exactly what each figure is based on.

No. Bid signals and "who should bid" are our read of how biddable an opportunity looks, based on the tender's funding, scope and the buyer's track record. They're a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee or formal advice.

Free gives you the full searchable database, a watchlist of up to five items, per-change alerts on what you watch, saved searches, and a daily digest.

Pro adds decision-grade bid intelligence on each tender: who's well-placed to bid, the key requirements, the buyer's profile, market context, and the supplier landscape, plus the full historical archive, award analysis, and unlimited watches.

Pro is £79 a month, or £790 a year (two months free). It starts with a one-month trial: card required, cancel any time.

Not today. EVTenders helps you find, qualify and analyse the right opportunities, and you submit your bid through the official procurement portal named in the tender. A response workspace to help you draft responses, organise evidence and track submissions is coming soon. Our Enterprise tier offers bespoke analysis support for bid teams.

They do three different jobs. Watching an individual tender or organisation gives you per-change alerts whenever that specific item updates. A saved search stores a set of filters (region, buyer, keywords), so you don't re-enter them, and your alerts are matched to those filters. The daily digest is one email a day summarising the new EV opportunities across the board.

In short: watch means 'tell me when this changes', a saved search means 'remember what I'm looking for', and the digest is your once-a-day round-up.

On the Free tier you can watch up to five items in total: tenders and organisations combined, not five of each. Pro removes the cap entirely (unlimited watches). The cap keeps Free genuinely useful while reserving heavy monitoring for Pro.

The digest is once a day. Per-change alerts are sent when something you're watching changes. Because you choose what to watch and search, you stay in control of how much email you get.

No. The Free tier is free forever and needs no card, just an email to create your account. A card is only required when you start a Pro trial.

Your one-month Pro trial requires a card up front. When the month ends, you'll be charged for your first billing period (£79 monthly, or £790 for the year) unless you cancel before it ends. You can cancel any time during the trial and you won't be charged.

You can cancel any time from your account. When you cancel a paid plan, your Pro access continues until the end of the billing period you've already paid for, then your account drops back to Free. You keep your account, your watchlist (trimmed to the Free cap), and your saved searches.

We don't refund part-periods. When you cancel, your Pro access simply continues to the end of the period you've already paid for, then drops back to Free. EVTenders is a service for business customers, so consumer cooling-off rights don't apply.

Our prices don't include VAT. EVT Data Ltd isn't currently VAT-registered, so the price you see is the price you pay. There is no VAT added on top.

Payments are handled securely by Stripe. We never see or store your full card details.

Our Enterprise tier is built for bid teams and procurement consultancies: multiple users, priority support, and custom reporting and exports. Get in touch for a quote.

No. We don't sell your personal data, and we don't use your usage data to build advertising or marketing profiles. (See our Privacy Policy.)

Declining analytics cookies means we won't store analytics cookies or a persistent identifier on your device, and cookie-dependent features like session replay stay off. We do still collect basic, cookieless usage data to improve the service. For signed-in users this is linked to your account under legitimate interest, and you can object to that at any time. (Full detail is in our Privacy Policy.)

Yes. You can request deletion of your personal data at any time. Contact privacy@evtenders.com. We retain some records (for example, payment records) where the law requires it; the Privacy Policy sets out the retention periods.

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