About
Procurement is public. Understanding it should be too.
Governments publish enormous amounts of procurement data and almost none of it is readable. The Tender Brief exists to turn that data into something a business can actually act on — which portal applies, what the rules require, and whether an opportunity is realistically winnable.
How we work with figures
Procurement writing is full of confident numbers with no provenance. We hold to four rules, and they are visible in every article.
Every figure carries its source and date
A number without a source is an opinion. Where we cite official statistics, the release and date appear next to the figure so you can check it yourself.
Unverified means unverified
Where a claim comes from converging secondary sources rather than the original text, we label it. It is more useful to know a fact is probable than to be told it is certain.
A missing value is not zero
Public procurement data is full of gaps. A tender with no published value means the value was not stated, not that it is worthless — and we never let the two collapse.
Published date is not award date
Portals routinely publish notices long after the underlying decision. We check both before describing anything as recent.
Where the analysis comes from
We run a weekly research process across public procurement sources — award notices, official statistics and regulatory publications — and record what changed. Articles are written from that record rather than from press releases.
That process also produces things the public portals do not surface directly: which route to market awards actually travel through, how often a buyer returns to the market, and which requirements eliminate suppliers most often.
Coverage, honestly stated
India is live. The United Kingdom, UAE and United States are in progress and marked as such — we would rather cover one market properly than four superficially. If you need help in a market we have not published on yet, ask directly and we will tell you plainly whether we can be useful.
Contact
Corrections are welcome and we publish them. If you think a figure here is wrong, write to hello@thetenderbrief.com.
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