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Watch everything
You cannot win what you never see. Every UK and EU source (Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, TED) polled hourly and deduplicated, all day, every day of the year.
Volume I · Issue N° 04102026 · Sunday, 4 October 2026
Brefi
Never miss a tender. The morning brief for UK public-sector bidders & recruiters.
Today's lead · Briefing for the morning
Never miss a tender
that could win your year.
In your inbox by seven.
Every UK and EU tender feed, scored against your business and graded, so the opportunity that wins your year is the first thing you read, not the one you find out about too late.
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Standfirst
The tender that makes your year is out there right now, buried in one of a dozen government portals you won't get to in time. Miss it and you don't just lose a contract: if it's a framework, you're shut out for four years. Brefi reads every source hourly (Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and TED), scores each notice against your CPV codes and keywords, grades it, and delivers only what matters, at 07:00 UK time.
The wire, right now
60,157 opportunities tracked
20 added in the last 24h
5 UK & EU sources, polled hourly
next scan in 34 min
Our wire · Sources polled hourly, every day of the year
UK CENTRAL
Contracts Finder
OCDS
gov.uk
UK ≥ OJEU
Find a Tender
OCDS
find-tender.service.gov.uk
SCOTLAND
Public Contracts Scotland
OCDS
publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
EU & EEA
Tenders Electronic Daily
TED v3
ted.europa.eu
The Brefi Method
Five principles · one morning habit
Winning public-sector work isn't about searching harder. It's five habits, run for you every day, so the opportunities that fit find you instead of the other way round.
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Score to fit
Volume is noise. Every notice is scored against your CPV codes, keywords, value band and regions, so the brief is about your business, not the whole market.
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Grade ruthlessly
Not every opportunity deserves your morning. Each match is graded A, B or C. Act on the As, glance at the Bs, ignore the rest with a clear conscience.
04
Pre-position for frameworks
The biggest contracts are decided years early. Brefi tracks when frameworks expire and re-tender, so you prepare months before competitors notice the window.
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Track to won
A find in an inbox is worthless. Move every opportunity from Interested to Bidding to Submitted to Won, so nothing promising quietly slips.
Live in five minutes. Declare your CPV codes, tune your keywords and value band, then read tomorrow's brief. Change any of it whenever you like.
Why good bidders still miss the ones that matter
Three expensive habits
The mistake
Searching the portals by hand
The portals are built for compliance, not discovery. You check when you remember; tenders publish when they publish. The one that mattered went out the morning you were busy, and closed before you looked.
The mistake
Waiting for the tender to appear
By the time a framework reaches the wire, the decision is already years old. Find out when it publishes and you are bidding against firms who started preparing nine months ago, or you are locked out until the next cycle.
The mistake
Treating discovery as the finish line
Finding the opportunity is the easy tenth. Without a pipeline, good tenders die in an inbox: half-remembered, half-qualified, and quietly missed at the deadline.
None of these are laziness. They are what happens when discovery is manual. The Brefi Method fixes all three by default.
Also in every subscription
The practical detail
Up to five logins
One subscription, shared filter profiles, individual sign-ins and pipelines. No per-seat metering.
Instant grade-A alerts
Per profile: a daily digest, an alert the moment an A lands, or both. Set it per desk.
UK, Ireland and EU
UK by default. Tick Ireland or any English-friendly EU country per profile for TED buyers.
Export and forward
One-click CSV for your analyst, or a publication-quality PDF for the bid team. The brief also lands in your inbox.
Procurement signals
Cyber Essentials and CE Plus requirements, and subcontracting clauses, flagged automatically in the brief.
Built for compliance
Two-factor auth, self-service GDPR export and deletion, a consent log, UK-hosted. Enough to tick every supplier questionnaire.
Built for
Recruitment
Stop missing the framework cycles you live by.
NHS Workforce Alliance. CCS RM6277. HealthTrust Europe. Council temp frameworks. Brefi watches every CPV in the 796xxxxx range and surfaces mini-competitions, call-offs and re-tenders the day they're published. Filter for IR35, umbrella, MSP, neutral vendor, locum, interim, the language your sector actually uses.
- 796 00000 Recruitment services
- 796 20000 Supply of personnel, temporary staff
- 796 24000 Nursing personnel ← NHS locum frameworks
- 796 25000 Medical personnel ← NHS & private MSP
Also for suppliers
Stop scrolling tender portals.
IT, design, marketing, construction, professional services. Set your CPV codes and contract value range, Brefi watches the wire. Cyber Essentials and subcontracting clauses are detected automatically and flagged in the brief.
A note on Cyber Essentials
A CE or CE+ requirement is often a moat, not a blocker. Brefi flags them with a small green tag so you spot the tenders where smaller competitors get filtered out.
Questions & answers
What is Brefi?
Brefi is a tender-alert and bid-tracking service for UK public-sector bidders and recruiters. It watches every major UK and EU tender feed and delivers a graded daily brief of the opportunities that match your business, with a pipeline to track them from shortlist to won.
Which tender sources does it cover?
Contracts Finder, Find a Tender (FTS), Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and TED (EU), deduplicated so the same tender across sources appears once.
How is it different from searching Contracts Finder myself?
Brefi watches all the sources at once, removes duplicates, scores every notice against your profile of keywords, CPV codes, value band and regions, grades it A/B/C, and emails you only the relevant ones, so you stop manually searching and reviewing feeds.
Does it track framework re-tenders?
Yes. Brefi keeps a framework re-tender calendar that tracks when major UK framework agreements expire and come up for re-tender, so you can prepare early rather than miss the window.
Is it useful for recruitment agencies?
Yes. Public-sector staffing and locum/agency framework opportunities are a core use case, agencies use Brefi to catch NHS and local-authority staffing tenders as they publish.
How much does it cost?
£79 per month, or £49 per month billed annually (ex VAT), after a 7-day free trial.
Do prices include VAT?
Prices are shown ex VAT. UK customers pay 20% VAT, added at checkout. VAT-registered businesses outside the UK can enter their VAT number at checkout to be zero-rated under the reverse charge.
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