About CleanTender
Finding Soft FM contracts is easy now. Winning them still isn't.
For UK SMEs in cleaning, security, grounds, waste, and catering. The companies who turn up and do the work. Not the consultancy class who write about it.
Why CleanTender exists
The same Soft FM contractors keep winning. They've worked out how to bid.
The UK public sector spends billions on Soft FM every year. Cleaning, security, grounds, waste, catering, pest control, porterage. A small group of contractors wins most of it.
Their work isn't sharper. Their bids are.
They quote the right Social Value framework for the buyer (TOMs for a council, PPN 002 for the NHS). They list accreditations in the order evaluators score against. They quote the published 2024-2026 financial proxies (£20,500 per local FTE, £244 per tonne CO2e, £17 per volunteer hour) instead of writing paragraphs. They size apprenticeship commitments to contract value.
Most SME bidders haven't. They find the contract on day one, sit on it for five days, then either rush a Friday-night response or skip it altogether.
CleanTender closes the gap between finding a Soft FM contract and winning one.
What we believe
Procurement know-how baked into the software, not sold by the hour.
Sector vocabulary is non-negotiable.
BICSc, BS 7858, NPTC PA1/PA6, HACCP. If the response doesn't use the right words, evaluators score you down before they read for meaning.
Social Value is 10 to 30% of the total score.
Most SMEs lose marks because they use TOMs for an NHS trust or PPN 002 Social Value Model for a council. The wrong framework is worse than no framework. CleanTender routes to the right one based on buyer type.
Vague Social Value text scores in the bottom quartile.
The 2024-2026 financial proxies are published. £20,500 per local FTE. £244 per tonne CO2e. £17 per volunteer hour. Quote the numbers. Don't write paragraphs.
Who we build for
UK soft FM SMEs.
Cleaners, manned guarding firms, grounds and landscaping teams, waste and recycling hauliers, school meals operators. Two to fifty staff is the sweet spot. Annual turnover £200k to £15m.
If you've ever lost a bid because your insurance certificate expired three days before the SQ deadline, this site is for you.
Where we cover
All four UK nations. By their own rules.
Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish buyers follow different procurement rules than English ones. CleanTender tags every notice by the nation it sits under.
Welsh Government, NHS Wales, Scottish councils, the NI Executive. Different regulatory frameworks. Same platform.
What we don't do
We're not a consultancy. We're software.
- No per-bid charges.
- No 30-minute discovery call before you can see live contracts.
- No human bid writer attached to your account, slowing every submission to their schedule.
- No enterprise-only feature gating. The smallest SME on the platform gets the same evaluator the largest does.
Start with one scan.
Free: one AI compliance scan a month, no card. Pro at £99/month: 30 scans, unlimited bid drafting, the Social Value Generator, the Compliance Vault, alerts.