What is Orbigate?
Orbigate is an AI tender agent for suppliers to the public sector, from construction, health and IT to public safety, security and defence. Every morning it checks the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), 21 national procurement portals in Europe, SAM.gov in the US and CanadaBuys, screens what is new against your company in any language, writes a decision card for the best matches (fit, eligibility, competition and who usually wins) and gives a reason for every tender it skipped. You decide with Pursue or Pass.
Is Orbigate an AI agent?
Yes. It works every morning without being asked: it searches every source with your profiles, screens the new notices against your company, writes decision cards for the best few and tells you why it skipped the rest. It drafts emails and prepares the next steps, but it never contacts a buyer or submits a bid for you. Every decision is yours.
How does the agent learn what I want?
Each time you pass on a tender you pick a reason, such as wrong product or too big. The next morning the agent uses your earlier Pursue and Pass decisions to skip similar tenders.
Does it submit bids or email buyers for me?
No. It drafts the question to the buyer and the email to a partner, in English and in their language, and you send them. It never submits a bid.
How much does the agent read?
Every new notice from the 22 sources that matches your search profiles. It screens all of them and writes full decision cards for the best five a day.
Which countries and tender sources does Orbigate cover?
Orbigate covers more than 30 countries through 22 sources: TED for the whole EU and EEA, plus national portals in the United Kingdom (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), France (BOAMP), Germany (oeffentlichevergabe.de), Poland (BZP), the Netherlands (TenderNed), Norway (Doffin), Italy, Spain, Ukraine (Prozorro), Greece, Croatia, Serbia, Switzerland (simap.ch), Estonia, Latvia, Finland (Hilma), Denmark, Romania and Sweden, and outside Europe SAM.gov (United States) and CanadaBuys (Canada).
How can I find public tenders for my products in other European countries?
Most contracts above the EU thresholds are published on TED, but smaller contracts often appear only on national portals, in the local language. Orbigate lets you describe what you sell once, then searches TED and the national portals together, translates local-language notices into English, and lists the matches by deadline, country and fit. You can save searches as profiles and get a daily email digest of new matches.
Can a company from outside the EU bid on EU public tenders?
Often, yes. Suppliers from countries that signed the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, such as the UK, the US, Switzerland, Norway, Israel, Japan and Canada, have access to covered EU tenders above the thresholds. Defence and security contracts under Directive 2009/81/EC can be restricted to EU suppliers, and EU defence programmes such as EDF, EDIP and SAFE require EU establishment. Orbigate's decision cards point out the eligibility rules stated in each notice, but always confirm them in the tender documents.
What is TED (Tenders Electronic Daily)?
TED is the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union. Public buyers in the EU and EEA must publish contracts above the EU value thresholds there, along with award notices that show who won. Orbigate uses TED's official search API and also reads its award notices to show how many bids a type of tender usually gets and which companies win.
What is an Orbigate decision card?
A decision card is a one-page, AI-generated summary of a tender judged against your company profile. It gives a fit score, a recommendation (bid, partner or skip) with the reasons, the eligibility conditions, the usual number of bidders and past winners, the deadline, contacts and documents, and quotes the parts of the notice it relies on with a link to the official notice. Cards are a fast first opinion, not legal or bid advice.
Does Orbigate translate tenders?
Yes. Titles from national portals are shown in English everywhere, including the daily emails, with the original language named and the original title and notice reference next to them, so you can look the tender up on its portal. Decision cards are written in English. Quotes from the notice stay in their original language so you can check them against the official text.
How does Orbigate know who usually wins a tender?
It reads published contract award notices on TED for the same type of contract (CPV code) in the same country: how many bids were received, who won, and whether the winner was an SME or a foreign company. It shows the usual number of bidders and flags low-competition tenders.
How much does Orbigate cost?
It depends on the countries and categories you cover. We share pricing on the demo call.
Is there a free trial?
VIP access is a time-based preview with a shortlist built for your company, by request.
Is my company information kept private?
Yes. Your company profile, searches and saved tenders are stored on your account (hosted by Netlify in the United States) and used only for your searches, cards and emails. The AI provider that writes the cards, Anthropic, does not train its models on them. Orbigate never asks for bid documents or prices and never submits anything for you: you apply on the buyer's own portal. You can download or delete your data at any time. See the privacy policy for details.
Does Orbigate show grants and innovation funding?
Yes. Next to tenders, the Funding page lists open and announced calls from the European Defence Fund, Horizon Europe civil security, the UK's Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) and UK Defence Innovation, and NATO DIANA, updated every morning. Each call shows who can apply, and calls your home country cannot apply to are hidden by default. You apply on the programme's own portal.
