Construction
Stronger bids for public works.
CrowMark for Suppliers helps UK construction firms find public works tenders and build stronger framework and project bids, so you can bid for more work without growing your bid team. Every social value figure and delivery claim traces back to your own data and the rules that apply.
More frameworks, tighter margins, more to prove.
UK public construction spend runs through a dense layer of frameworks and dynamic markets. Works are let through routes such as SCAPE, Pagabo, Fusion21, Procure Partnerships, NHS Shared Business Services and regional hubs, on top of individual local authority and housing association tenders. Each has its own selection questionnaire, its own call-off rules and its own reporting expectations, and most now run through e-sourcing portals like In-tend and ProContract.
Two forces make these bids harder than they used to be. First, social value is now scored, not asked for as a nice-to-have. Under PPN 002, central government works carry a minimum 10% social value weighting, mandatory from 1 October 2025, and construction buyers translate that into concrete asks: local labour, apprenticeship starts, spend with SMEs in the supply chain, and carbon reduction on site. Second, the Procurement Act 2023, live from 24 February 2025, expects published KPIs on larger contracts and evidence of delivery after award, so the promises in your bid follow you into the contract.
The result is a lot of qualifying, writing and evidencing for a bid team that is usually one or two people juggling live projects. Missing a notice, or reusing a weak social value answer, costs real work.
From notice to submission-ready, faster.
CrowMark tracks Contracts Finder and Find a Tender and refreshes the feed at 06:00 each day. Filter by CPV code, region and contract value so only the works packages you can deliver reach your list, then bookmark the ones worth a bid/no-bid decision.
CrowMark computes social value on the PPN 002 model at the 10% minimum weighting, over a curated catalogue of TOMs-aligned measures, and drafts answers grounded in bids your firm has already submitted. Every pound and percentage in the prose has to exist in your own data before the draft is released, so nothing is invented.
Every AI-assisted draft carries a PPN 017 transparency disclosure, and a person approves the answer before it is submitted.
CrowMark checks the Procurement Act 2023 KPI duties, section 52 for contracts above £5m and section 71 on assessing and publishing performance, as an advisory step, and gives you a place to evidence what you committed to. These checks are advisory and are not legal advice.
CrowMark covers the tender discovery, drafting and delivery-evidence workflow for construction bidders end to end.
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Find the work. Win it. Prove you delivered.
Start with the tenders your construction team should be bidding this week.