Observed arrival · 2026-10-01
What They Buy turns plain-language products into tender searches
A free search tool that maps a supplier’s plain-language description to official procurement codes and searches public tender portals.
- For
- Small suppliers searching for public procurement opportunities
- Worth noticing
- Its source table distinguishes live queries from daily copied feeds and marks data older than two days as stale.
Field notes
The search interface pairs a product-or-service text field with a country selector and sample queries such as “surgical gloves” and “school meals catering.” It maps words to procurement codes using a manually edited JSON dictionary, and users can include additional codes suggested by word matches. The source table distinguishes live queries from daily copies and reports source status and notice counts. Australia’s feed lacks closing dates, so its notices appear undated.
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