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. Most of it never hits your radar — unless you've got hours to trawl multiple portals written in procurement-speak. Tendera pulls it into 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 run a daily scan across the major public feeds we monitor — federal, states, councils, ICN, commercial — and surface tradie-relevant 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
Each day, Tendera pulls from federal, state, council, ICN, and commercial feeds — then filters hard for tradie-relevant work in your area. A cleaner morning shortlist, not the whole internet.
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.
Major public-sector and council feeds — updated daily
Filtered for tradie-relevant work — fewer tabs, less noise.
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 pull from major federal, state, council, ICN, and commercial feeds into one view. You see open tenders filtered to your trade, postcode, and job size — with plain-English summaries where we have enough description to work with.
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.
Green, yellow, red — see bid effort before you sink hours in.
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.
Work you should know about is in today's scan.
You can keep checking buyer sites one by one — or use Tendera for a filtered daily shortlist on your phone. Free. No credit card. No pitch from a salesperson called Brad.