Win the public sector. Properly.
Skim combines AI-native bid software with hands-on strategy from a team that's won £3bn+ in UK and EU public sector contracts — so you bid smarter, write faster, and build the buyer relationships that decide who wins. Tools alone don't win bids. Expertise does.
Trusted by SMEs winning across the public sector
- lastminute.com
- Neverbland
- Kooba
- Passion Digital
- Faddom
- Playr-Fit
- Jethr
- Shape
- Times Higher Education
Customer story
Two minutes to bid/no-bid. Down from 30.
How a UK digital agency turned tender qualification from a half-hour slog into instant clarity — and stopped missing opportunities they never knew existed.
Anna
Managing Director, We Create Digital
30 → 2 min
Bid/no-bid decision time
10 min
To evaluate three opportunities
UK agency
Digital services, public sector
The expertise behind Skim
Tony Birch(Advisor)
- Industry veteran with 40 years’ experience.
- Developed the APMP certification programme.
- Helped secure over £20bn+ in contracts.
UK & EU tender coverage in one place. Track opportunities across every region you bid into.
From buyer signal to signed contract. The agent works the bid before the RFP exists.
Cabinet Office digital transformation lead matched to your win profile.
Healthcare framework due for renewal in four months. Added to watchlist.
Introduction note ready for the buyer at MoJ — sign off to send.
Lot 2 technical response complete. Section 3 needs human sign-off.
Local authority software framework awarded. Loss-notice insights archived.
The gap that closes. Total value applied for, against total value won — narrowing every quarter.
What Claude and ChatGPT can’t answer. Trained on every UK & EU award notice, tender document, and supplier history.
The part they don't mention
Found a tender. Now what?
Alert platforms are good at one thing — more alerts. They won't shortlist what's worth your time, draft a response that scores, or learn from the loss notice. The more they surface, the more unpaid work lands on your desk. That's the part nobody warns you about.
The market, on one line
Software on its own leaves the work to you. Consultancies do the work — at a price.
Skim sits in the gap between the two — the software that actually does the work, with a bid team that has won £3bn+ standing behind it.
Software-only
Tender alert platforms
Software + service
Skim
Service-only
Specialist bid consultancies
The numbers
Bid/no-bid decision, down from 40 min before Skim.
Faster retrieval of tender files and supporting documents.
Time spent searching for opportunities, down from 1 hour a day.
Won by the Skim team across UK and EU public sector contracts.
1-on-1 strategy session with a veteran bid lead.
Support from the team, plus the agent working overnight.
How the agent works
Forty years of bidding expertise. At your fingertips.
For the first time, you have your own bid advisor — one that strategises with you, spots the moves you'd never see on your own, and turns the days you used to lose into bids you actually win.
- 40 years of UK & EU tender data
- Trained by the bid leads behind £3bn+ in wins
- Bid/no-bid scoring on every opportunity
- AI-drafted responses built to score
Built for your stage
Whether it's your first bid or your hundredth.
First-time bidders
Win your first government contract — without the learning curve.
Confidence, structure, and a clear path. We walk you through it like Tony would.
Learn moreGrowing bidders
Bid more without burning out your team.
Capacity that scales. Drafting that doesn't sacrifice quality. Pipeline you can actually see.
Learn moreMature bidders
Win the bids that matter. Faster.
Win-rate optimisation, competitive intelligence, and the discipline of a veteran bid team.
Learn morePricing
The strategy behind £3bn+ in wins. Now yours, through Skim.
The strategy is proven. The agent is new. Try it now.
Free
Researchers and occasional bidders exploring public sector procurement.
Skim Advisor agent — limited usage
- 1 user
- Real-time web browsing
- 20+ years of UK and EU contract data
- Deep business strategy analysis
- Competitor analysis
- Award notice analysis for expiring contracts
- Decision-maker lookups
- Drafted introduction emails
- Partnership discovery for joint bids
Starter
First-time bidders building their public sector pipeline.
Skim Advisor agent — standard usage
- Everything in Free
- 3 users
- Email and chat support
- Live tender tracking across 3 countries
- 24/7 opportunity monitoring
- Bid/no-bid analysis
- Document analysis on every tender pack
- Buyer intelligence reports
- Pipeline tracking and management
- Team permission controls
Growth
Experienced bidders who want strategy in the room, not just software.
Skim Advisor agent — 5× usage
- Everything in Starter
- 10 users
- Priority email and chat support
- Live tender tracking across 10 countries
- Dedicated account manager
- Quarterly pipeline review
- Dedicated Slack or Teams channel
Enterprise
Bidders operating at full capacity with a dedicated bid team.
Skim Advisor agent — 20× usage
- Everything in Growth
- Unlimited users
- Priority support across all channels
- Dedicated named account manager
- Live tracking across all UK and EU countries — no limit
- Dedicated bid support team
- Custom portal integration (add-on)
- Enhanced data privacy and security-led onboarding
- SSO and audit logging
Frequently asked questions
The questions experienced bidders ask first.
We already have someone who writes our bids. Why would we need Skim?
Skim is not a replacement for a bid lead — it is the leverage layer underneath them. The agent sources opportunities across UK and EU portals, scores fit before they invest a day on a no-hoper, drafts first-pass responses against the buyer's marking scheme, and reviews drafts for the points that lose on quality. Your bid lead stops being a writer and starts being an editor with a 40-year veteran in the room.
How does Skim avoid generic, hallucinated AI bid responses?
Drafts are grounded in your own case studies, accreditations, methodologies and past wins — not a generic LLM guess. Every response is scored against the buyer's published evaluation criteria, and the Skim bid team reviews high-value drafts with you on the weekly call. The bar is a bid your reviewer would sign off, not a bid that looks plausible.
How does Skim handle our commercial data and bid content?
Your bid library, case studies and pipeline are scoped to your workspace. Skim does not train public models on your content, and contractual data-handling terms are reviewed at onboarding for Enterprise customers. Security-led onboarding, role-based permissions and audit trails are included on the Enterprise tier; SSO is available on request.
How quickly will Skim pay for itself?
Public sector contracts for SMEs typically sit in the £40k–£500k+ range. One additional win pays for a year of Growth several times over. The faster compounding effect is on the bids you don't write: most customers walk away from 30–40% more opportunities once fit scoring is in place, which frees the team to put serious effort into the bids worth winning.
Is there a contract commitment?
No long-term lock-in. Monthly plans run month-to-month and can be cancelled before the next billing date. Yearly plans are billed upfront with a 25% discount and run for twelve months. You can switch plans at any time, with the change taking effect from the next billing cycle.
Is there a free tier?
Yes — the Skim Advisor agent is free in beta, with limited weekly capacity. Advisor is the AI you talk to: ask it competitor analysis questions, dig into buyer intelligence, search award notice data, study brand and market positioning, and search public-sector opportunities across UK and EU. Free access is granted from a waitlist as capacity opens up. For the full Skim platform — pipeline review, opportunity filtering for your profile, the six specialist agents, and weekly 1-on-1 strategy with our £3bn+ bid team — book a demo. That route gets you full beta access on day one.
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