The best customer is a council that pays every month for 4 years.
Every public contract comes back to tender. If you hold one, that is the day you can lose it; if you don't, it is your way in. Holdfast shows you when each one in your trade comes back, 6 to 12 months before it is advertised, and who holds it now. Then Holdfast helps you win it, and keep it.
The score takes 3 minutes: 12 questions, a score out of 100 and the 3 fixes that matter most. The weekly email lists the contracts coming up in your trade and area, every Monday.
Browse public contracts by trade →
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Live Irish tenders in our first five trades
Advertised on TED, the EU's tender website, and still open as of today. A Holdfast customer gets these the morning they appear, matched to their trade and area.
Three acts. One contract.
Most tender tools wake up when the tender goes live. Holdfast starts months earlier and stays with you after you win.
Find
See the work before your competitors know it exists.
- Daily alerts for your trade and area
- Re-tender pipeline, 6 to 12 months ahead
- Who holds it, what it is worth, when it ends
- Price benchmarks from past awards
Win
Bids drafted for your trade, checked before they go out.
- Method statements, quality and social value answers
- Bid or no-bid score with the reasons
- Every tender requirement checked
- Partners for joint bids and subcontracts
Hold
Keep the contract and win it again at renewal.
- 90-day start-up (mobilisation) plan
- Staff transfer (TUPE) plan
- Monthly performance reports for your client
- Renewal bid ready 9 months before the end
The next 18 months, contract by contract
Each dot is a real contract, placed in the month its re-tender window opens. Select one to see the buyer and the contract; members also see who holds it, its value and the exact dates. Here: Ireland's five biggest trades and Canada's federal cleaning. Members get all 100 trades.
What Irish contracts sell for
Award values for each trade since 2019. The dot is the typical (median) contract; the bar covers the middle half of awards. The price check uses these to tell you where your price should land.
Holdfast does the work. You sign off.
Every account gets the same tools, set up for its trade and area. A person reviews every bid before it is submitted.
Oil, gas and mine work for small site contractors
Cleanup money for old wells and mines is spent through dozens of separate state and provincial tenders. Mines and oil companies also demand approval paperwork before you set foot on site. Holdfast Sites handles both.
Federal cleanup grants to states, FY2023 to FY2026. States then hire contractors through their own tenders, which is where Holdfast Sites looks.
Pay for what you use. Pay more only when you win.
Founding members: the first 20 firms get 50% off their first 12 paid months. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, and annual plans get 2 months free.
- Daily alerts for your trade and area
- Re-tender pipeline
- Current holder, value and term
- Everything in Find
- 3 AI bid drafts a month
- Bid or no-bid scores
- Pricing guide and compliance check
- Everything in Win
- Start-up and staff transfer (TUPE) plans
- Monthly client reports
- Renewal preparation
- Compliance Autopilot (coming soon)
- Everything in Win + Hold
- Renewal Defence on every contract
- Price check before every bid
- 20 AI bid drafts a month
- Compliance Autopilot (coming soon)
One contract won pays for Holdfast for years. 90-day promise, cancel in one click.
Member extras: free with every paid plan
Paying members always get more than they pay for.
Holdfast 90-day promise: If we don't show you at least 5 public contracts or tenders matching your trades and area (open tenders, or re-tender windows opening within 12 months) in your first 90 days of a paid plan, we refund your subscription fees for those 90 days. Ask by email within 14 days after the 90 days end. One refund per company. Terms
A pipeline, not a feed
| Compared | Typical tender tools | Holdfast |
|---|---|---|
| When you hear | When the tender goes live, with 2 to 4 weeks to respond | 6 to 12 months earlier, from past award data |
| Who you face | Not shown | The current holder, their price and their term |
| After you win | Nothing | Start-up plans, staff transfer (TUPE), client reports and renewal prep |
| How you pay | The same fee whether you win or lose | An option to pay mostly when you win |
| Who does it | Software your team has to learn | AI that drafts everything for your approval |
| Where | Usually one country | Ireland and Malta now; the UK, Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand as each source is checked |
| Oil, gas, mines | Not covered | Holdfast Sites |
The index of 100 boring businesses
If your firm cleans it, guards it, fixes it, clears it or feeds it, Holdfast tracks the public money spent on it. Ordered by how many public contracts each trade wins.
I run a cleaning company. Winning contracts took more of my week than doing the work. So I built Holdfast.
The free trial gives you 30 days of every tool for your trade and area, including 3 tender explanations and one AI bid draft, so you can judge the quality yourself.