Public procurement is one of the biggest markets a small company can sell to. Councils, schools, hospitals and public utilities buy almost everything: websites, renovations, equipment, cleaning, training. In theory anyone can bid. In practice the work goes to whoever sees the notice in time and has the hours to read it.
We built Dalie because that first step is still too hard.
Notices are everywhere and nowhere
A tender doesn't have one address. Notices across the EU land on different portals, in different formats and languages. One buyer publishes here, another there, and the documents for a procedure sometimes sit somewhere else again. One procedure is usually several notices too: the contract notice, a correction, a moved deadline, and finally the award. Each one looks like a separate thing.
A large company has a bid team for this. Someone checks the portals every day, keeps a spreadsheet and watches the deadlines. A small company doesn't have that person. The owner looks for tenders in the evening, between jobs. When they find something good, the deadline is three days away. Or they never find it.
That's a shame, because there's often less competition than you'd think. In the Dalie database, 28% of awards across the EU this year had a single bid. Someone wins those contracts. Often nobody else noticed they were running.
Keyword alerts don't fix it
The first thing anyone does when they're tired of checking portals is set up a keyword alert. You type "website" and wait. A week later you have a hundred emails, and three of them are about what you actually do. The rest are hosting contracts for a hospital at the other end of the country, and notices where "website" appears once, in the buyer's contact details.
So you add exclusions and narrow the CPV codes, and the alert starts missing what matters. A tender for a "municipal information portal with maintenance" never says "website". Keywords don't know what your company does. They only know which letters showed up in the notice.
Deciding takes hours
Say you found a tender that might fit. Now you have to decide whether to bid. The specification runs to a hundred pages. Somewhere in there are the eligibility conditions, required experience, bid bond, weighted award criteria and penalty clauses. Reading it takes half a day, often only to learn on page 64 that the buyer wants three similar projects and you have two.
Then there's pricing. What did a similar contract go for last year? Who won? How many bids came in? All of that is public, but it sits in separate award notices that nobody links back to the tender.
What Dalie does
Dalie gathers notices from across the EU in one place. Notices about the same procedure become one tender: the notice, corrections, deadline changes and the award all end up in one record. You see one tender instead of five notices.
You set up your company profile once: what you do, where you work, which languages you bid in. Or enter your company website and Dalie fills in the profile for you. If you don't know your CPV codes, Dalie picks them.
Then Dalie scores every tender for your company from 0 to 100 and tells you why. Not "keyword matched", but something like: a council portal with three years of maintenance, like the projects on your site. Search works by meaning, so you search in English and Dalie also finds notices in German, French and Polish.
Every tender has a one-paragraph summary. Dalie pulls the requirements, bid bond and weighted criteria from the documents, and the risks that could block your bid are right there. Before you open the specification, you know whether it's worth it. The link to the original notice is always there, so you can check anything at the source.
Dalie also links awards to tenders. You see who won similar contracts, for how much, and how many bids came in. Handy when you price your next bid.
New matches arrive in one email, at most once an hour. Dalie reminds you before deadlines and tells you when the buyer changed the notice or moved a date.
When you decide to bid, the tender goes on a shared bid board. Columns from "to review" to "won", a document checklist for every bid, tasks and deadlines for the team. Everyone knows who owns which tender and by when.
Who it's for
Companies without a bid team that don't want to hire someone just to read portals. A one-person business that bids a few times a year and wants to see the contracts nearby. A team that bids every week and loses deadlines in spreadsheets. And large companies searching many countries and categories at once.
We don't promise you'll win every tender. We promise you'll see the ones that fit while there's still time, and decide faster whether they're worth a bid.
Early access
We're opening Dalie to a limited number of companies and opening accounts in batches. During early access, the Starter, Pro and Scale plans are 30% cheaper. Leave your email and company website and we'll get back to you with access.
Questions, or want to tell me how you look for tenders today? Write to kontakt@dalie.ai.