Tenderio: Improving SME's access to public procurement

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The existing Tenderio platform (www.tenderio.com) is supplying every day at least 1500 new tenders published in Europe. Tenders from thousands of newspapers & government websites are tracked daily with the help of intelligent data crawlers. Data crawlers visit these websites & download tenders information automatically. Each tender is then manually verified and has its abstract translated in English before it is shared via automatic and personalized alerts with Europe-based companies. We help SMEs from any sector to identify their business opportunities, match them with relevant partner(s) (through an existing pan-European network of consultancies) and prepare their bid across borders and language barriers. Tenderio platform has reached the TRL 9, which means that our technology is actually proven in operational environment. The present project will build on this existing solution (Tenderio platform) while developing and implementing a series of innovative, integrated and exciting business-supporting activities aiming to inform, educate and match a wide cross section of European SMEs and procurement authorities with the ultimate objective to improve SMEs participation in (especially) international tenders. In order to attain this ambitious challenge, the Tenderio consortium proposes to provide pro-active and added-value support by delivering country specific guidelines and a benchmarking model on public procurement, national training, matching and business-to-procurers days, tailored coaching and mentoring services, partner search activities, a “bidding laboratory” and the organisation of an e-conference and webinars on “how to win a tender abroad”.