Skim

Skim

Skim is an AI-powered tender platform for UK and EU public-sector suppliers. It helps teams find and qualify contracts, analyse buyers and competitors, and prepare bid responses with support from experienced bid professionals.

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Skim is an AI tender platform for suppliers pursuing public-sector contracts. It combines opportunity discovery and bid qualification with buyer and competitor intelligence, tender analysis, and AI-assisted response drafting. The page describes coverage across UK and EU tender markets, with additional regional coverage available as Enterprise add-ons.

The product is aimed at first-time, growing, and mature bidders. Skim positions its software alongside bid-team expertise, including strategy support and review of high-value drafts. Its agent, Tony, can help users assess tenders, research buyers and competitors, and prepare bid work.

AI platform to win public tenders with personalized alerts and automated RFP applications.

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Key Features

Tender discovery and matching

Finds tender opportunities across public-sector markets and matches them to a supplier's profile. The page says the Free plan finds one strong tender match a day, while Starter matches every tender every day.

Bid/no-bid analysis

Scores opportunities for fit and provides bid/no-bid reports so teams can assess whether a tender is worth pursuing.

Buyer and competitor intelligence

Provides business intelligence about buyers, competitors, and contracts, including competitor analysis and stakeholder mapping.

Tender document retrieval and analysis

On Growth, automatically retrieves tender files from UK and Irish buyer portals and organises information from tender packs for bid completion.

AI-assisted bid drafting

Drafts responses against the buyer's evaluation criteria. The page says drafts can draw on a customer's case studies, accreditations, methodologies, and past wins.

Pre-tender intelligence

Tracks contract expiries, framework renewals, incumbents, and pipeline signals. The page says pipeline forecasting can surface contracts 12 to 18 months before tender.

Pricing intelligence

Growth includes advice on pricing to win based on award values from similar contracts.

Bid-team expertise

The service pairs the platform with bid-team support, including strategy sessions and review of high-value drafts as described on the page.

Pricing

Free Tier Available

The Free plan costs £0 and includes up to 3 users, 1 country tracked, basic-usage business intelligence, one strong tender match a day, and three bid/no-bid and buyer intelligence reports.

Free

£0
  • Up to 3 users
  • 1 country tracked
  • Basic-usage business intelligence insights on buyers, competitors, or contracts
  • 1 strong tender match a day

Starter

£199/month
  • Up to 5 users
  • 1 country tracked
  • 14-day trial
  • Every tender matched daily, with 90% accuracy stated on the page

Growth

£599/month
  • Up to 10 users
  • 3 countries tracked
  • 14-day trial
  • Automatic retrieval of tender files from UK and Irish buyer portals

Enterprise

Custom
  • Unlimited users
  • 27 countries tracked
  • Unlimited token usage for business intelligence insights
  • Bid drafting using the latest buyer and market data

Use Cases

Qualifying public-sector opportunities

Use bid/no-bid scoring and buyer intelligence to decide which tenders fit the team's profile before investing time in a response.

Preparing tender responses

Use tender-pack analysis and AI-drafted responses to assemble an initial bid against the buyer's published evaluation criteria.

Building a public-sector pipeline

Track tenders, contract expiries, framework renewals, and incumbent suppliers to identify upcoming opportunities.

Improving bid strategy

Use competitor patterns, pricing benchmarks, and bid-team strategy support to focus effort on bids the team considers worth winning.

Integrations

Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini

Starter includes access to Skim through Skim MCP in these AI assistants.

CRM

Growth includes CRM auto-sync and enrichment; the page does not name specific CRM products.

HTTP APIs

Enterprise includes integration with any HTTP API and custom bid intelligence inside internal AI applications.

Benefits

Helps teams identify and assess tenders before committing significant bid-writing time.
Brings opportunity, buyer, competitor, and contract intelligence into a tender-focused workflow.
Supports response preparation with AI drafts tied to customer materials and buyer evaluation criteria.
Combines software with bid-team strategy and support.

Limitations

Free is limited to 3 users, 1 country, basic business-intelligence usage, one strong tender match a day, and three bid/no-bid and buyer intelligence reports.
Starter is limited to 5 users and 1 tracked country; Growth is limited to 10 users and 3 tracked countries.
The page lists 27 tracked countries for Enterprise; additional coverage for the USA, Africa, and Asia is described as add-ons.
Automatic tender-file retrieval from buyer portals is listed as a Growth feature, rather than a Free or Starter feature.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Skim replace a bid lead?
No. The page describes Skim as a leverage layer for bid leads: it sources opportunities, scores fit, drafts first-pass responses, and reviews drafts, while the bid lead can focus on editing and strategy.
How does Skim avoid generic AI bid responses?
The page says drafts are grounded in the customer's case studies, accreditations, methodologies, and past wins, and are scored against the buyer's published evaluation criteria. It also says the Skim bid team reviews high-value drafts with the customer on the weekly call.
How does Skim handle commercial data and bid content?
The page says bid libraries, case studies, and pipelines are scoped to the customer's workspace and that Skim does not train public models on customer content. It says contractual data-handling terms are reviewed at Enterprise onboarding; role-based permissions and audit trails are included on Enterprise, and SSO is available on request.
Is there a contract commitment?
The page says monthly plans run month-to-month and can be cancelled before the next billing date. Yearly plans are billed upfront, include a 15% discount, and run for twelve months. Plans can be changed, with changes taking effect from the next billing cycle.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. The Free plan supports up to 3 users and 1 country, provides basic-usage business intelligence, finds one strong tender match a day, and includes three bid/no-bid and buyer intelligence reports.

Getting Started

  1. 1 Choose Start for free or select a paid plan or trial.
  2. 2 Sign up with a work email, Microsoft, or Google account.
  3. 3 Choose the country coverage and team plan that fit your needs.
  4. 4 Use Tony to research a buyer, competitor, or contract, find tender matches, or run bid/no-bid and buyer intelligence reports.

Support

Email and chat

Email and chat support are listed for Starter.

Account management and strategy calls

Growth includes a dedicated account manager and bi-weekly strategy calls.

Slack

Growth includes a shared Slack channel.

Guides and research

The site provides guides, procurement research, comparisons, trackers, and a win-rate calculator.

API

Available: Yes