A public tender search that does not stop at the list.
Carabela watches the public sources, scores every notice against what your company can genuinely win and keeps going: fit, specifications and bid. You decide which ones to bid for.
Almost every company that bids starts with a tender search, and almost every tool stops there. You get a list, often a long one, and the work starts afterwards: opening each notice, checking whether the contracting body is one you care about, whether the budget makes sense, whether you have the solvency they ask for. In Spain, more than 180,000 tenders a year are published on the Public Sector Procurement Platform (PLACSP), and that is not the only place where tenders are published. Nobody can read them all properly every morning.
Carabela does the watching differently. It follows 41 public sources around the clock and, instead of alerting you to everything, scores every notice against what your company actually does: its activity, its CPV codes, the contracting bodies and regions it cares about, the contract size that makes sense, the solvency, experience and certifications it can prove, the procedure type and its own track record. The point is not to fill your inbox with alerts but to bring to the top the opportunities that could genuinely make sense for you. That is what separates a tender search with judgement from a list of matches.
And it does not stop there. Every tender that passes the filter goes into the fit analysis: whether you can bid, which mandatory requirements you meet, what documentation you are missing, what risks the file carries and how much effort the bid would take. If it is worth it, Carabela reads the specifications and prepares the proposal. For Carabela, finding the tender is where the work starts, not where it ends. Your team steps in where its knowledge, its price or its signature is needed.
What Carabela's search does
Watches the public sources around the clock
Tenders are not published in one place, and they do not wait for someone to remember to look. Carabela follows 41 public sources continuously and has 1M+ public tenders indexed, so every new notice is read against everything published before it. Watching stops being a job for people.
Scores every notice against what you can win
A generic search engine looks for words. Carabela searches with your company's context: activity, services, CPV codes and related categories, contracting bodies, location, contract budget and duration, solvency requirements, prior experience, certifications, procedure type and your own track record. The result is a fit score for each tender, not a list of matches.
Prioritises instead of alerting
An inbox full of alerts is the problem, not the solution. Carabela ranks what it finds by what could genuinely make sense for your company and discards what does not fit before you ever see it. What reaches you is short and comes with a reason: why this one, what makes it competitive for you and what would need confirming before going further.
Learns your company, not just your sector
Before it searches, Carabela builds a picture of your organisation: what it sells, what projects it has delivered, what experience it can prove, which requirements it can meet and which it cannot, what kind of contracts it wants to go after and how much risk it is prepared to take. It can start with partial information and fill in the rest over time. With that context, the search is far more specific than anything a generic engine can do.
Carries on to fit, specifications and bid
This is where a search engine stops and Carabela keeps going. Every opportunity that passes the filter goes into the fit analysis and, if it is worth it, on to reading the specifications, the technical proposal, the administrative documentation and the analysis of the price offer. Then it follows the file through to award. Finding the tender is where the work starts, not where it ends.
How it works
The same sequence you will see in the whole system, told from the search.
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It gets to know your company
Carabela starts with you, not with the market: what you sell, where you work, what you have delivered, what you can prove and what contract size makes sense for you. That context is the yardstick every notice is scored against later, and it can be filled in step by step.
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It detects
It follows 41 public sources around the clock. Every new tender is compared with your context: activity, CPV codes, contracting body, geography, budget, solvency, experience, certifications and procedure type. What does not fit is discarded before it reaches you; what does is scored.
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It evaluates
What fits goes into the go/no-go analysis: whether you can bid, whether you meet the mandatory requirements, what documentation is missing, what risks the file carries, what competition there might be and how much effort the bid would take. Carabela proposes. You decide whether it is worth it.
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It carries on to the bid
If the answer is yes, Carabela reads the specifications and annexes, prepares the technical proposal and the administrative documentation and analyses the price scenarios. It is the whole system, from opportunity to submission, and you can see it stage by stage.
Who it is for
Above all when the problem is not too few notices, but too many.
- Companies that want to start selling to the public sector and do not know what opportunities exist for their line of work.
- Companies that already bid and find opportunities, but do not know which to prioritise.
- Teams that are small for the volume of tenders published in their sector.
- Companies that submit few bids for lack of time, not for lack of tenders.
- Tender departments that want to take the watching off their plate and concentrate on deciding.
- Companies that want something built around their case rather than generic alert software.
You decide which ones to bid for
The search proposes; the company decides. You can approve every opportunity by hand before Carabela prepares anything, or delegate the selection and receive only the exceptions and the decisions that matter. Bidding for or discarding a tender, requesting clarifications, setting the final price and submitting the proposal are decisions you can keep for yourself, each one separately. The degree of autonomy is configured for each company rather than fixed in advance, and nothing is submitted without you.
Frequently asked questions
Where does Carabela look for tenders?
In public sources. Carabela follows 41 public sources continuously, the Public Sector Procurement Platform (PLACSP) among them, and has 1M+ public tenders indexed. You do not depend on the tender showing up in one place or on someone remembering to look every morning. What changes compared with a search engine is what happens to each notice once it has been found.
How is it different from an alerts platform?
An alerts platform normally stops when it finds an opportunity. For Carabela, finding it is the beginning: the next step is deciding whether it is worth pursuing and, if the answer is yes, reading the specifications, preparing the bid and staying with the process through to award. And the search does not run on loose keywords but on your company's real context: what it can prove, what it wants to go after and what it does not.
Can we use just the search, without the rest?
Carabela is not designed as a tender database you look something up in and leave. If all you need is a list, there are simpler tools for that. Where Carabela earns its place is in what comes after the list: deciding with judgement, reading the specifications and preparing the bid. The scope adapts to each company, but the search on its own is rarely the right fit.
How does it know which tenders fit my company?
Because before it searches, it builds a picture of your organisation: what it sells, which sectors it works in, what projects it has delivered, what experience and certifications it can prove, which requirements it can meet, what kind of contracts it wants and which regions and contracting bodies interest it. It can start with partial information and fill in the rest over time. With that context, every notice is scored against what your company can genuinely win, not against a keyword.
Does it guarantee we will win more tenders?
No. No company can guarantee that a public body will award a particular contract: the decision belongs to the contracting body and depends on the bids submitted. What Carabela does is make sure you see more opportunities that fit well, discard the ones that do not sooner and arrive with a better-prepared bid. Bidding for more does not mean winning more; the point is to bid for the ones that fit, and to do it well.
Is it useful if we have never bid before?
Yes. For a company that is starting out, the search is the way to understand what opportunities exist for its line of work, what requirements are usually asked for and what documentation it would need to prepare before bidding. Whether you can bid depends on the solvency and experience each contract demands, and that is exactly what Carabela checks in every file, so that you do not sink time into a tender that is not viable.
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