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Tender Coverage & Bulk Tendering: The answer to ridiculously fast procurement

By ProcurePro, published 17 Apr 2025
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Construction jobs move fast. Your procurement should move faster. We’ve just released two features built for speed and control: Bulk Tendering and Tender Coverage. 

Whether you're managing five trades or 50, these tools help you send tenders quickly, track them easily, and stay in control from start to finish. Learn more about how our solutions can drive procurement efficiency.

Tender coverage: see everything, miss nothing

Tendering usually slows down because of the chasing, checking, and second-guessing. Tender Coverage fixes that. It gives you a clean, live view of every tender across every trade, so nothing goes missing and no one is left out.

You’ll know exactly where things stand without asking around or waiting for a team meeting. It answers the most common questions surveyors and project managers have each day:

  • Have we sent this tender?
  • Has anyone replied?
  • Do we have sufficient coverage?
  • What’s our next most urgent move?

How it works

You can track the status of all tenders across a project from one screen. That includes who’s been invited, who’s responded, any outstanding RFIs that need to be actioned, and which documents need to be synced.

You’ll also see due dates, response rates, and incomplete packages. Everything is in one place.

  • Full visibility: See every tendered trade, vendor, and document status.
  • Live response tracking: Know who’s in, who’s out, and who needs a nudge.
  • Set and manage due dates: Apply deadlines across all tenders or tweak them individually.
  • Spot missing documents: Instantly see what hasn’t been synced from the doc management system.
  • Filter by project, trade, or user: Drill into the details without extra noise.

Let’s say you’re running procurement for a 30M school redevelopment. You’ve got 38 trades and two weeks to get them out. With Tender Coverage, you know which trades are covered, which are undersupplied, and which haven’t been sent at all — without opening Excel. Understand more about potential procurement risks and how to mitigate them.

You’re no longer relying on memory, an inbox, or a catch-up call. You open the dashboard and see the whole picture.

Bulk tendering: procure a whole project at once (if you need to!)

When you need tenders out across 30 or 40 trades, sending them one by one is incredibly time consuming. Bulk Tendering lets you issue tenders across multiple trades in one shot. You choose the trades, attach documents, and send. No unnecessary admin or guesswork.

It’s made for real project dynamics, like a build with a compressed program and overlapping stages. You’ve got 10 trades ready in week one and another 15 in week two. Instead of repeating the same steps 25 times, you do it in two clean batches.

Built-in checks catch problems before tenders go out.

You’ll be prompted if:

  • An RFI / addendum needs to be actioned
  • No subcontractors have been invited
  • A due date hasn’t been set

If something’s off, you’ll know, so you won’t send half-finished tenders or forget a key document.

No more bouncing between folders, emails, and spreadsheets. No more wondering what’s been sent, what hasn’t, or what’s still sitting in draft. Bulk Tendering keeps it simple — send once, send right.

Digital procurement is built for speed

Construction tendering moves fast. Fit-out contractors juggle tight programs, short lead times, and tough pricing targets. The margin for delay is thin, and mistakes are expensive. Learn more about how procurement software can enhance efficiency.

When a project gets the go-ahead on Monday and tenders need to be out by Wednesday, admin-heavy procurement workflows don’t cut it. You can’t afford to lose track of who’s been invited while sending trades one by one.

Packages need to move quickly — from scope to contract — without missing steps. That’s where digital procurement comes in.

Designed for fast-moving teams

Most fit-out contractors we work with run multiple jobs at once. That means dozens of trades, hundreds of documents, and a tight window to get tenders out. Bulk Tendering and Tender Coverage are built exactly for that.

  • Rapid tender issue: Send multiple trades in a single batch in just a few clicks.
  • Live tender tracking: See who’s invited, who’s responded, and what’s overdue.
  • Built-in checks: Easily spot missing information before tenders are sent.

Let’s say you’re overseeing a five-level commercial fit-out. You’ve got your structural, services and finishes trades all going to market in the space of one week. Instead of repeating the same steps over and over, you issue them all together — with full visibility from the moment they’re sent.

Traditional procurement tools don’t scale like this. They weren’t built for overlapping deadlines, fast site teams, or rolling approvals. You end up chasing emails and hoping nothing has been missed.

Digital procurement doesn’t remove pressure — but it gives you the systems to keep pace.

Conclusion

If you’re still sending tenders one by one, you’re doing twice the work for half the result. The Old Way of procuring creates pressure through repetition — not complexity. The work isn’t hard, it’s just the same job repeated.

Procurement teams chasing deadlines don’t need more tasks. They need clear systems that reduce admin, flag errors early, and show the big picture without chasing updates. That’s what Tender Coverage and Bulk Tendering do — speed things up, but also add structure.

You already know how much time you’re losing. You feel it every day. What you might not realise is how quickly it can change. With Tender Coverage and Bulk Tendering, the process gets faster, simpler to repeat, easier to track, and harder to get wrong.

Construction tendering will always be fast-paced. But it doesn’t have to be chaotic. Explore how ProcurePro solutions can help streamline your procurement processes.

Ready to see Tender Coverage and Bulk Tendering in action? Book a demo now.

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