Public contracts are a steady order book that actually pays, and plenty of building firms stay away because the front door is off-putting. Notices go up continuously on the official bulletin, on the state procurement platform, and on the buyer profiles run by local authorities. Finding the two or three notices that concern you in that flow costs an hour a day nobody has.
An AIOS does that watching for you. Every morning it sweeps the sources, drops everything that is not your trade, your area or your size, and presents the little that remains with the essentials already read: subject of the contract, how it is split into lots, the procedure, the award criteria, the submission deadline and the documents required. You decide whether to go for it in two minutes rather than two evenings.
The problem
- Notices are scattered across the national bulletin, the state platform and each authority's own buyer profile: several sites to check to miss nothing
- Keyword alerts bring back dozens of irrelevant notices, and end up never being opened at all
- A tender pack runs to dozens of pages: working out whether the lot suits you already costs half a day of reading
- Submission deadlines come round without warning, and a bid started too late is a bid that never goes out
How the AIOS handles it
It sweeps the sources every morning
The national contracts bulletin, the state procurement platform, the buyer profiles of the authorities in your region and the European portal for the larger contracts: the AIOS goes through the night's publications and keeps only what touches your activities.
It filters on your real criteria, not on keywords
Trade and lots (structural work, roofing, heating and ventilation, electrics, finishing trades), travel radius, contract size you can actually carry, ability to produce the references and certificates demanded. A painting lot 300 km away never surfaces, even if it matches your keywords.
It reads the tender pack before you
For each notice kept, a one-page brief: the buyer, the subject, how the work is split into lots, the procedure used, the award criteria and their weighting, whether a site visit is compulsory, the exact submission date and time, and the documents required. Two minutes tell you whether the bid is worth your evening.
It holds the calendar and gets the paperwork ready
A reminder as the deadline approaches, the questions to put to the buyer before the cut-off, and the recurring bundle already assembled: the standard declaration forms, your ten-year construction insurance certificate, your up-to-date social contributions certificate, references from comparable jobs. You keep what really counts: the technical statement and the price.
A concrete example
Anything for us in this week's publications?
Two files out of 180 notices swept. First: re-roofing three schools for a town of 15,000 people 22 km from you, simplified procedure, lot 2 roofing and zinc work which is exactly what you do, compulsory site visit on the 18th at 9am, submission on the 29th at noon. Stated criteria: 60 percent technical, 40 percent price, which plays to your strengths. Second: roof maintenance for a social housing landlord over 3 years, framework agreement, bigger than your usual jobs but doable as part of a consortium. I dropped the rest as out of area or out of trade. The paperwork for the first one is three quarters ready, only the recent social contributions certificate is missing. Shall I request it?
Other use cases: Writing quotes in minutes · Following up unanswered quotes · Chasing unpaid invoices · Sorting incoming enquiries
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