Frequently asked questions
The questions bid managers and sales teams ask us most, answered plainly.
The questions we get asked.
Which countries and regions do you cover?
Official procurement portals in 183 countries across Europe & Central Asia, North America, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and East Asia & Pacific. The largest are EU TED, India CPPP, Brazil PNCP, Ukraine ProZorro, and Philippines PhilGEPS. You can add any other portal’s RSS feed yourself, and social leads come from Reddit, Stack Exchange, Upwork and LinkedIn.
Where does ScoutTide use AI?
For a few jobs, each labelled in the app. The main ones: matching tenders and posts to what you sell (anything it sets aside stays one click away, with its reason), translating notices written in other languages, turning your products into searches, and reading your website to suggest your products for you to review. Tender data itself always comes from the official source, never from a model.
Can people outside my team see our documents?
No. A tender's documents and notes are visible only to people in your organisation. There are no public links, and deleting a document removes it for everyone.
How does my team get in?
Pick the Team plan and sign up with Google, or with an email and password. You become the first manager, name the organisation, and invite colleagues (or open it to your company’s email domain, so they join automatically). Every claim and stage change is attributed to a person in the audit trail.
I work on my own. Is this for me?
Yes. Pick the Individual plan and ScoutTide opens on Social leads, which is where the Upwork, Reddit and LinkedIn conversations that start freelance work live. You get a queue that learns your taste. No team pages, no setup, and the official tender portals stay one click away whenever you want them.
Do you track contract awards, not just open tenders?
Yes. Where a public award record exists, ScoutTide links it to the tender, so you can see who won and when the contract is likely to come up again. A renewal date worked out from the contract’s length is always labelled Estimated.
Somebody is publishing your next contract right now.
It is going up on a tender portal or in a forum thread. Be the one who sees it first.