Partners
Your users find the tender. We help them prepare the bid.
in-tender partners with tender listing and alert sites, business associations, bid consultants and advisers. Link your users straight from a tender to its requirements and pre-filled documents, and see exactly what your referrals are worth.
Finding a tender is only the start
Once someone has found a tender, the work begins: reading the documents for what's required, gathering registration, tax and B-BBEE records, filling in the SBD forms and getting the pack reviewed before the deadline. That's the part in-tender handles. Partnering lets you offer it as the next step after your listing, without building it yourself.
What you get as a partner
A next step for every listing
Add a "Prepare this bid" link to each tender. It's built from the tender number you already show, so there's no mapping between your system and ours.
Tender requirements on your pages
Our partner API returns what a tender asks for, read from its documents: each requirement with its stage, whether it's mandatory, any threshold and the page it came from.
Usage you can see
Every API request and every visitor you send is recorded against your partner account. Commercial terms are based on those numbers, not estimates.
Terms that suit your business
A referral fee, a revenue share or bundled access for your members or subscribers, agreed with each partner. There is no fee to integrate.
What your users get
- The tender's requirements listed in one place, with what their records don't cover yet.
- Tender documents pre-filled from a company vault they fill in once, with empty fields flagged.
- Their team reviewing and editing the same copy, then exporting one document or the full bid pack.
- Free browsing, vault and compliance tracking; requirements checks and bid preparations paid per use, with no subscription.
in-tender handles the administration of bidding. It doesn't decide, predict or guarantee who wins a tender.
How it works
Step 1
Tell us about your audience
Send the form below. We'll talk through who your users are and which integration fits.
Step 2
Get your partner account
We set you up with a partner name for your links and, if you want the API, a private key.
Step 3
Add links, or requirements, to your pages
Start with links on your tender pages. Add requirements from the API whenever you're ready.
Step 4
Review the numbers together
We share the requests and visits recorded for you, which settle the commercial terms we agreed.
For your developers
Links need no integration work, and the requirements API is a single GET request. The developer page covers the link format, authentication, the response fields and errors.
Read the developer guideFrequently asked questions
Who can partner with in-tender?
Any business whose users bid for South African government tenders: tender listing and alert sites, business associations and chambers, bid consultants, accountants and other advisers. Partners link their users to in-tender for the paperwork that follows finding a tender.
What does it cost to become a partner?
There is no fee to integrate. Commercial terms, such as a referral fee, a revenue share or bundled access for your members, are agreed with each partner and based on the usage in-tender records for you.
How much technical work is involved?
Linking needs none: each tender link is built from the tender number you already show. Showing tender requirements on your own pages is a single authenticated GET request that returns JSON.
What data is shared?
The partner API returns public tender information only: the tender's details and the requirements in-tender has read from its documents. Your users' company records and bids stay private to them and are not shared with partners.
Does in-tender guarantee that my users will win tenders?
No. in-tender helps with the administration of bidding. Whether a bid is awarded depends on the bidder's own due diligence, their review of what they submit, and the evaluation by the organ of state that issued the tender.
Can a partnership be ended?
Yes. Access is per partner and can be switched off at any time, which stops the partner's API key and referral tracking immediately.
Become a partner
Tell us about your business and your users. We'll reply within 2 business days.