From portal hell to proper work
Four steps. Then you just check your phone.
Councils, hospitals, schools and state agencies post work your competitors are quietly winning. You don't need three hours a night in ten portals — you just need someone doing the hunting. Here's how that works.
The whole thing, start to finish
Tell us who you are
Trade, postcode, how far you'll travel, the size of job worth your time. Sparky? Plumber? Painter? Commercial maintenance? We need the basics so we're not wasting your morning on tenders that were never for you. Takes two minutes. One screen. No credit card.
We do the 6am shift
Every morning before you've had a coffee, Tendera scans federal, every state and territory, VendorPanel, ICN Gateway work packages, and council sites across Australia. Thousands of tenders in. A filtered feed out. You see the ones that match your trade and your patch — nothing else.
Read it in English, not procurement-speak
Every tender gets a plain-English summary, a match score against your profile, and — where we've got the data — what similar work was awarded for. 85%+ means it's basically written for you. Under 60% means save the evening. Decide in five minutes instead of reading a 47-page PDF to find out you're not qualified.
Decide and go
Bookmark the good ones. Track them on the Pipeline board. When you're ready, click straight through to the buyer's portal and respond there. We don't draft your bid and we don't sit between you and the buyer. We just make sure you actually saw the job and knew what it was worth.
The unfair advantage — without the unfair price tag
AI match scoring
Stop reading every tender. Start reading the right ones. We score every tender against your trade, postcode, travel radius and job size. Electrical maintenance in Western Sydney? Painting for schools in the Mornington Peninsula? HVAC for hospitals in Adelaide? You see a match percentage the moment you open it. 89% means it's basically yours. 45% means they want something you don't do. Focus on the work you can actually win.
Plain-English summaries
Tender documents are written by people who get paid by the syllable. We translate the whole thing into normal human language. Instead of jargon about AS/NZS 4801 compliance, you see: "You need an OHS management system and you'll be doing minor electrical repairs across 15 schools in the Northern Beaches." Understand what they actually want in 30 seconds.
Go / no-go in 60 seconds
Every tender opens with a quick checklist: licences, insurances, White Card, trade registration, distance, 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. State-specific rules built in.
Complexity, in traffic lights
Not all tenders are equal. 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.
Market intelligence
Stop guessing what to bid. See what similar contracts were actually awarded for. Electrical maintenance in Brisbane? You'll see $124k, $89k, $156k — who won them, what department issued them. Plumbing repairs for NSW schools? You'll see twelve previous contracts, values, regions, and the mob who keeps winning the work. It's not a guarantee you'll win. But you'll know if you're about to bid $50k on something that's been awarding at $120k for three years straight.
Pipeline tracker
A kanban board for the jobs you're chasing. Drag cards across columns. Add notes. Set reminders for closing dates. It's Trello for tenders, except we auto-populate it the moment you save a tender from the feed.
AI chat on every tender
Stuck on something? Ask the AI. What insurances do I need for this one? What's a panel arrangement? Do I need a WWCC for hospital work in Victoria? It knows Australian procurement and state-specific rules in plain language. Not perfect — but better than Googling at 11pm the night before it's due.
Morning email digest
Daily or weekly, your call. We email you new tenders that match your profile. Quick scan over your morning coffee. Click through to the ones that look good. Never miss work because you forgot to open the app on a Tuesday.
Australia-wide coverage
Federal, state, council, and commercial feeds — updated daily. AusTender (federal), NSW eTendering, QTenders, SA Tenders, Tenders VIC, Tasmanian Government Tenders, ACT Contracts, NT Government Tenders, plus VendorPanel, ICN Gateway work packages, and council sources. Tradie-relevant open tenders with known close dates — not every procurement listing in Australia.
Know what the work's actually worth
See what similar contracts were awarded for. Which departments keep posting the work. Which mob keeps winning it. That's Market Intelligence — the difference between pricing blind at 10pm and walking in knowing what the job's been going for three years straight.
Real awarded contracts. Not guesses.
Electrical Maintenance
Dept of Transport NSW
HVAC Services
SA Health
Plumbing Repairs
VIC Schools (Western Region)
Painting - Commercial
QLD Housing
Landscaping Maintenance
ACT Parks
An expert on the couch, not in the office
Stuck at 11pm trying to work out what a panel arrangement is, or whether you need a WWCC for hospital work in Victoria? Ask the AI. It knows Australian procurement and state-specific rules in plain language. Not perfect — but better than the forum you usually end up on.
Sample questions
A job you should be quoting was posted this morning.
Tendera's free right now — the feed, the matches, the plain-English summaries, the go/no-go checklist, the pipeline, the market intel, the AI. All of it. Tell us your trade and your postcode and we'll show you what's actually live.