Find government tenders your small firm can win
A developer built Tender Radar, where a local Gemma 4 model checked 8 tenders against a contractor's documents and drafted bid packs in 22 minutes at no cost, per the author.
Done with Custom agentGemma 4
What they did
Pranesh Nikhar built a tool for small electrical contractors bidding on public tenders. It reads tender notices, pulls out rules like turnover and licences, and checks each one against the firm's own documents. It flags risky terms, estimates win chances from past bids and drafts covering letters. It used a coding agent to build it, on a realistic made-up firm.
How it went
The author reports 24 rules met, 5 partly met and 19 missing across 8 tenders. The checker rejected 3 bad citations and caught 4 number conflicts, at zero cost.
Worth knowing
The author caught the small model marking a rule 'met' while its own reasoning said otherwise, so every claim must carry a quote checked against the documents.
Try it yourself
Read these tender notices: [paste or attach notices]. For each, list the eligibility rules: turnover, deposit, past experience, licences and certificates. Check each rule against my firm's documents in [folder of documents], and quote the exact line that proves it, or mark it missing. Flag risky terms in plain words, like tight deadlines or a job much bigger than past work. Rank the tenders by fit. Then draft a covering letter for the best one, using only claims my documents support. Show me everything before anything is submitted.
Swap the highlighted [parts] for your own details.
Source: DEV Community · Pranesh Nikhar · Oct 17, 2026
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