Stop asking permission.The work is already yours.We just found it for you.
Somewhere in Australia, a council just posted a $45k electrical job. A hospital's looking for a painter. A school needs a plumber. You'll never see any of it — unless you've got three hours a day to trawl ten portals written in procurement-speak. Tendera does that for you. One feed, plain English, matched to your trade. Built for sparkies, plumbers, painters and cleaners who are sick of leaving money on the table.
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Government work pays. Finding it shouldn't cost you your weekend.
The way it works now
Here's the deal no one tells you. Every day, thousands of tenders get posted across AusTender, VendorPanel, ICN Gateway, and another ten portals most tradies have never heard of. They're written by procurement officers, for procurement officers.
You're expected to hunt them down, translate the jargon, guess at the budget, and write a response — all between quoting jobs and feeding the kids. The tradies who win this work aren't smarter than you. They just have someone doing the hunting.
Usually a $2–5k-a-month consultant. Or a full-time office person. Or three hours of their night.
The way it should work
You tell us what you do and where you do it. We scan every portal every morning. You get a feed of tenders matched to your trade, with the procurement-speak translated into plain English, a rough match score, and what similar jobs went for last year.
No consultant. No night shift. Just the work, on a plate. You still decide what to chase — we just make sure you're actually seeing what's out there.
From portal hell to proper work
Four steps. Then you just check your phone.
Tell us who you are
Trade, postcode, how far you'll travel, what size job is worth your time. Takes two minutes. One screen.
We do the 6am shift
Every morning before you've had a coffee, Tendera scans federal, state, commercial, ICN, and council portals across Australia. Thousands of tenders in. A filtered feed out.
Read it in English, not procurement-speak
Every tender gets a plain-English summary, a match score against your profile, and — where we can see it — what similar work was awarded for. No 40-page PDFs unless you actually want one.
Decide and go
Bookmark the good ones. Ignore the rest. When you're ready, click through to the source portal and respond directly. We don't sit between you and the buyer. We just make sure you saw the job.
Scanning, every morning
Federal, state, commercial, ICN Gateway, and local council work — so you don't have to bookmark ten portals
Built for your trade
If you wear the boots, we've got the work.
Tendera was built for the trades that hold Australia together. Sparkies, plumbers, painters, cleaners, chippies, plasterers, HVAC crews — the people councils and hospitals actually need. Search for yours.
What you get
The unfair advantage — without the unfair price tag.
Discovery, in plain English
We watch federal portals, state portals, commercial platforms, ICN Gateway, and the council sites your competitors don't know exist. You see live tenders filtered to your trade, your postcode, and the size of job you can actually handle — each one with a plain-English summary written for humans, not procurement officers.
Complexity, in traffic lights
Green means you can quote it on your lunch break. Yellow means it'll take a few hours and a proper look. Red means it's the kind of job where a bid writer might earn their fee. We tell you upfront so you don't waste a night on something that was never yours.
AI match scoring
Every tender gets scored against your profile — trade, location, travel radius, job size. The best-fit work floats to the top. You don't sort through noise.
Go / no-go in 60 seconds
Every tender opens with a quick checklist: licences, insurance, distance, capacity, deadline. Tick the boxes. If anything's a hard no, you know before you've wasted half an hour reading a PDF. If it's a yes, you've already got half the thinking done.
Market intelligence (Pro)
See what similar contracts were awarded for, and who won them. Stop pricing blind. Start pricing like the incumbents do.
No bullshit
We'll tell you when it's not worth the night.
Most tender tools pretend every job is winnable if you just buy their template pack. Ours doesn't. Green, yellow, red — you'll know which bucket a tender falls into before you spend a single minute on it.
Simple
Under $30k
RFQs and straightforward quotes. You've already done this kind of work a hundred times. Quote it on your phone between jobs.
Medium
$30k – $100k
Proper tender. Worth a couple of hours at the kitchen table. We'll hand you the outline and flag the bits the buyer actually cares about.
Complex
Over $100k
Multi-section submissions with compliance matrices. The kind of work where a good bid writer pays for themselves. We'll tell you that honestly — and still give you the market data so you can make the call.
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