Most contractors who reach out ask the same thing: “Can qlows handle our procurement portal?” The answer doesn’t change with the portal. qlows works on the document — PDF, structured form, attachment bundle — not the source. Once you have the file or the URL, the rest of the workflow is identical.
What does change is the upstream half: where to find the notice, what format it arrives in, what registration the buyer asks for, and which compliance attachments end up in the response bundle. This hub walks the major platforms across twenty-plus markets and links to a country deep-dive for each.
01 · What counts as a tender platform
We use the term broadly. There are three kinds of portal a contractor actually interacts with:
- Government notice boards — state-run single sources of truth (SAM.gov, Find a Tender, TED, AusTender, GeBIZ). Mandatory for above-threshold public contracts in their jurisdiction. Free to read. The primary source.
- Paid intelligence layers — commercial aggregators that enrich the raw notices with forecasting, incumbents, pipeline data, and alerting (GovWin IQ, BGOV, BidNet Direct, TenderLink). Subscription products. Most real bid teams use one.
- Buyer-side e-procurement SaaS — the platform a specific buyer runs their RFx process on (Bonfire, VendorPanel, ProContract). You receive an invite-link, register, and submit the response there. Usually free for the bidder.
Most contractors use all three: a notice board to see what exists, an intelligence layer to filter and forecast, and a buyer-side SaaS to actually submit. qlows sits in the middle — it’s where the notice lands, gets decomposed, and becomes the compliance grid that drives the response.
02 · The platforms, by region
One line per platform. Geographic breakdown in the deep-dive links below.
- United States — SAM.gov, GovWin IQ (Deltek), Bloomberg Government (BGOV), BidNet Direct, Bonfire
- United Kingdom — Find a Tender Service (FTS), Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, eTendersNI
- Ireland — eTenders.gov.ie
- European Union — TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)
- Germany — e-Vergabe, bund.de, Deutsches Vergabeportal (DTVP)
- France— BOAMP, PLACE (marchés-publics.gouv.fr), profils d’acheteur
- Netherlands — TenderNed
- Spain — PLACSP (Plataforma de Contratación del Sector Público)
- Italy — MEPA / Acquisti in Rete (Consip)
- Austria — ANKÖ Vergabeportal, auftrag.at
- Switzerland — SIMAP
- Sweden — TendSign, e-Avrop, Mercell
- Norway — Doffin, Mercell
- Denmark — udbud.dk, Mercell, Ethics/EU-Supply
- Finland — HILMA
- Poland — e-Zamówienia (BZP)
- Portugal — BASE.gov.pt, Vortal, acinGov, Saphety
- Canada — CanadaBuys, MERX, Bonfire (CA)
- Australia — AusTender, VendorPanel, TenderLink
- New Zealand — GETS, TenderLink (NZ)
- Singapore — GeBIZ
- India — GeM, CPPP
- South Africa — National Treasury eTender Portal
Many platforms, twenty-plus jurisdictions, one underlying job: take an inbound RFx document, turn it into requirements, route the ones you can’t answer alone, and ship a compliant response.
03 · The cross-platform qlows workflow
Every country deep-dive ends with a platform-specific workflow. They all share the same five steps:
- Ingest. Drop the notice PDF (or paste the portal URL — qlows fetches the bundle, including appendices). Works whether the notice is a TED eForm, a SAM.gov solicitation, an AusTender ATM bundle, or a GeBIZ ITT PDF.
- Extract. qlows reads the bundle and produces a verbatim requirements list — mandatory clauses, evaluation criteria, response sections, attachments, certifications. As rows. With page references.
- Compliance grid. Each requirement gets a row in the matrix with owner, status, evidence, and response location — the document that survives audit.
- Route.Anything the lead can’t answer alone goes to the SME (Tech, Legal, Finance) via a single magic link — no login, no portal, one question per page.
- Hand off. Export the prep pack — context window for ChatGPT/Claude, MCP context for Cursor or Claude Desktop, or a structured PDF for human authors.
What’s platform-specific is what you do before step 1: where you find the notice, what registration the portal demands, what format the bundle arrives in. The country pages spell that out.
04 · Country deep-dives
One guide per market. Each lists the platforms in that market, the access pattern (free / registration / paid), the file format of the notices, and the qlows workflow on that platform’s notices specifically.
- Guide · United States · 5 platformsUS tender platforms: SAM.gov, GovWin IQ, BGOV, BidNet, BonfireFederal opportunities consolidated at SAM.gov, plus the paid-intelligence layer (GovWin, BGOV) and the SLED aggregators (BidNet, Bonfire) that cover state, local, and education buyers.
- Guide · United Kingdom · 5 platformsUK tender platforms: Find a Tender, Contracts Finder & devolved portalsThe post-Brexit FTS for above-threshold notices, Contracts Finder for the rest, plus Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI for the devolved nations.
- Guide · Ireland · 1 platformIreland tender platforms: eTenders.gov.ieThe single state portal where every Irish public-sector contract above national threshold is published.
- Guide · European Union · 1 platformEU tender platforms: TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)The pan-EU notice board for above-threshold public contracts. Multilingual but with a stable English UI and downloadable eForms — ingest-friendly if you handle it right.
- Guide · Germany · 3 platformsGermany tender platforms: e-Vergabe, bund.de, DTVP & the LänderThe biggest EU market and the most fragmented: the federal e-Vergabe portal, bund.de, and the DTVP aggregator that ties thousands of state and municipal systems together.
- Guide · France · 2 platformsFrance tender platforms: BOAMP, PLACE & profils d'acheteurThe second-largest EU market, split cleanly: BOAMP publishes the notices, PLACE hosts the central-government dossiers and takes your bid, with local profils d'acheteur for the rest.
- Guide · Netherlands · 1 platformNetherlands tender platforms: TenderNedOne mandatory system for both publication and submission — every Dutch national and EU tender, plus the eHerkenning registration path and six-step bid flow.
- Guide · Spain · 1 platformSpain tender platforms: PLACSPOne mandatory national portal for central, regional, and local contracts — with the certificado electrónico that unlocks electronic bidding.
- Guide · Italy · 2 platformsItaly tender platforms: MEPA, Consip & Acquisti in ReteThe national marketplace run by Consip for below-threshold buying, standard EU procedures above it, and ANAC oversight across both.
- Guide · Austria · 2 platformsAustria tender platforms: auftrag.at & ANKÖFederal, state, and municipal notices concentrated through the ANKÖ Vergabeportal and auftrag.at, reachable via the USP business portal.
- Guide · Switzerland · 1 platformSwitzerland tender platforms: SIMAPNot EU, but a WTO-GPA party: one trilingual portal spanning federal, cantonal, and municipal buyers, open to foreign suppliers above threshold.
- Guide · Sweden · 3 platformsSweden tender platforms: TendSign, e-Avrop, MercellNo single official portal — the notices scatter across commercial e-tendering systems, converging only on TED above threshold.
- Guide · Norway · 2 platformsNorway tender platforms: Doffin & MercellDoffin as the official EEA notice board, Mercell as the dominant platform for documents and submission.
- Guide · Denmark · 2 platformsDenmark tender platforms: udbud.dk & TEDPublic discovery through udbud.dk and TED, submission on commercial e-tender systems like Mercell and Ethics/EU-Supply.
- Guide · Finland · 1 platformFinland tender platforms: HILMAOne free national notification channel for every public tender, with bids submitted on the buyer's e-tender system (often Cloudia).
- Guide · Poland · 1 platformPoland tender platforms: e-ZamówieniaOne mandatory national platform for notices, submissions, and communication, run by the Public Procurement Office (UZP).
- Guide · Portugal · 2 platformsPortugal tender platforms: BASE & certified platformsBASE.gov.pt for transparency and data; the tendering itself on state-certified platforms like Vortal, acinGov, and Saphety.
- Guide · Canada · 3 platformsCanada tender platforms: CanadaBuys, MERX, BonfireCanadaBuys for federal, MERX for federal-plus-provincial-plus-MASH, Bonfire for the municipalities and school boards that run it as their procurement back-end.
- Guide · Australia · 3 platformsAustralia tender platforms: AusTender, VendorPanel, TenderLinkAusTender for Commonwealth, VendorPanel for the state and local councils that have standardized on it, TenderLink for the private + public aggregator layer across AU and NZ.
- Guide · New Zealand · 2 platformsNew Zealand tender platforms: GETS and TenderLinkGETS is the single mandatory portal for NZ government RFx. TenderLink overlays it with notifications and aggregates Council and private-sector opportunities.
- Guide · Singapore · 1 platformSingapore tender platforms: GeBIZThe whole-of-government portal where every Singapore public-sector tender is posted, with structured ITQ/ITT/ITB documents.
- Guide · India · 2 platformsIndia tender platforms: GeM and CPPPGeM is the goods + services marketplace; the Central Public Procurement Portal is the works/consulting tender board. English-language buyer documents across both.
- Guide · South Africa · 1 platformSouth Africa tender platforms: National Treasury eTender PortalThe central portal mandated for all organs of state. English-language briefs, structured Tax/BBBEE/CSD compliance attachments.