CHOOSING TENDERS
Which tenders to bid on, and which to leave
Which tenders to bid on comes down to a few questions you can answer from the notice in minutes, before anyone opens the documents. Today we read 718 open tenders from federal agencies, Tenders WA, councils and other public buyers. Most of them are not for any one firm.
Open tenders counted on 1 Oct 2026, from the portals we read. Updated every day.
Four questions
Can you meet every mandatory requirement? Is the scope the work you do, at a size you can deliver? Is there time to write a considered response before it closes? And do you know anything about the buyer, such as what they bought before and who holds the contract now?
A tender that fails the first question is a no, however good the rest looks. A tender that passes all four is worth reading in full.
What Worthabid does with them
Worthabid reads each new tender against what your business does and marks it Pursue, Consider or No bid, with the reason in plain words. Each weekday morning you get the ones worth a look. A keyword alert sends every notice that mentions your words. Worthabid sends the few that fit and says why the rest do not.
We check for new tenders every day. Federal and WA Government tenders, plus councils across Australia, with more sources added as they come on board. Every notice links back to the portal that published it, and the Sources page lists each one.
Questions
- How is this different from keyword alerts?
- A keyword alert sends every notice that mentions your words, so you still open and read each one. Worthabid reads every notice against what your business actually does, sends the few that fit, and gives the reason each of the others is a no, so you can check it in seconds or overrule it.
- Where does the data come from?
- From public tender portals, read under their terms. We check for new tenders every day. Federal and WA Government tenders, plus councils across Australia, with more sources added as they come on board. Every notice carries its source, its licence and a link back to the original, and the Sources page lists each portal we read.
- What does No bid actually mean?
- It means we read the notice against your profile and found a reason not to spend the week on it. It might be a mandatory requirement you do not meet, or a scope outside what you do. You always see the reason, and you can overrule it with one click.
See it on your own tenders
Worthabid is open by invitation for now. Ask for an invite through the contact form and we reply by email.