Welcome

The workspace holds the Australian public procurement record in one place: Commonwealth tenders, contracts, standing offers and grants from AusTender and GrantConnect, and the tenders, forward plans and awards the states and territories publish. Your team tracks its bids against those records here, and Bower, the BidNomy assistant, answers questions over all of it, citing the records it used.

Look around before you sign up

You do not need an account to see what the workspace holds. Press Explore BidNomy on the homepage or the pricing page to open it. Home, Opportunities, Market intelligence and Government show real figures and short lists, and the pages of contracts, agencies and larger suppliers open. Tender notices, Search, full lists, exports and anything personal ask you to sign in, and Bower and Business development show a made-up example company. See Looking around without an account.

How the workspace is laid out

The sidebar, top to bottom:

• Search — the box at the very top. One query across every record type. ⌘K or Ctrl+K opens a quick menu: find a record, go to any page, start a bid or an alert, or ask Bower.
• Home — My day: bids due, your tasks, what is new for your alerts and contracts ending at agencies you follow, then what your team is reading. See Home.
• Bower — the tinted tile with the "B" mark. Bower is the BidNomy assistant, and its pages sit inside the tile: Chat (ask questions of the whole record set, run research skills), Bid documents (have Bower draft a Statement of Work or a proposal), Files (documents you upload, which Bower can read), Automations (questions that re-run on a schedule) and Memory (what Bower has learned from your chats, which you can make it forget). Click Bower to unfold or fold the tile; it has no page of its own. See Bower.
• Opportunities — work you can still bid for: Open tenders, Coming up, Panels, Grants and Alerts. Panels and Grants each have two tabs, Open and Awarded. See Opportunities.
• Business development — your team's own work: Pipelines, Bids and Tasks. The group's own page is the dashboard. See Business development.
• Market intelligence — who buys what, from whom, for how much: Contracts (with ACT payments on a tab of its own), Suppliers, Market size, Market share, Expiring contracts, Categories and Analytics, byAUTO's dashboards, which open in a new tab. See Market intelligence.
• Government — the buyers: Agencies and Budget programs. See Government.

Each group's name opens its overview page — four figures, then short lists of what needs you, each with See all into its page — apart from Bower, whose name only unfolds its items. A group stays folded until you are in it. Every row has an icon; when the sidebar is narrow, only the icons show.

At the foot of the sidebar are your plan and the Help menu: Guide opens this guide and Support is where you ask us a question and read our replies. What's new lists recent changes, newest first. Your name in the top-right corner opens the account menu: your profile, then Team, Billing, Notifications, Custom fields and API keys. See Account.

On a wide screen, the menu button at the left of the top bar folds the sidebar to its icons, which gives the page more room; press it again to unfold it. While it is folded, point at it (or tab into it) to see the full list over the page; search moves to the top bar, and your browser remembers the choice. On a tablet the sidebar is always the icons, and on a phone it is hidden: the menu button opens the full list over the page.

The top bar also holds the System, Light and Dark switch and the notification bell. The B button at the bottom right opens a mini chat with Bower on any page. Open tenders, Coming up, Panels and Contracts each hold every jurisdiction in one list, with a row of chips above it: Commonwealth is one chip, and each state or territory another.

Your first day

1. Set up an alert. Open a list — Open tenders, say — and narrow it with the filters and the jurisdiction chips. Press Save, the bell that sets up an alert, tick Email me when results change, and choose Daily or Weekly. The alert is kept under Opportunities › Alerts, and Home shows its newest matches.
2. Start a bid. On a record you want to chase, press Add to pipeline. That makes a bid linked to the record, in the first stage of your default pipeline, and opens it. If you have no pipeline yet, one is made for you.
3. Ask Bower one question. Press the B button, or open Bower › Chat, and ask about a market you work in. Every answer links the records it was built from and says how many credits it used.

Plans and the trial

Every new organisation starts a free seven-day trial of Pro at signup: one person, every jurisdiction, 500 AI credits and no card — one trial per company email domain. The trial opens to a free Bower briefing on your own records at the top of Home. When the trial ends nothing is locked away: you can still read your own work and every page open to visitors, and ask Bower questions on 50 free AI credits a month, but creating and changing things needs a plan (What happens when a trial ends). Your work is kept for 90 days, then deleted (with emails 14 days and 1 day before). There are four plans, paid monthly or yearly in Australian dollars plus GST: Essentials (the Commonwealth, one person), Pro (adds the states and territories, one person), Team (three to five people) and Enterprise (quoted, six people and up). Every plan includes a monthly allowance of AI credits. Resets each month on the day you subscribed. Pricing has what each plan includes, and Account how billing works.

Sections

• Getting started
  • Home — My day — a dateline and what is pressing, on a trial your first look (profile gaps, best Fit, contracts ending), then two columns — due bids, your tasks, new tenders that fit you, new alert matches and expiring contracts on the left, what you and your team opened on the right.
  • Search — One search across tenders, contracts, panels, grants, agencies and suppliers, and the quick menu.
  • Looking around without an account — What you can open before you sign up, what asks you to sign in, and how to start a free trial.
• Bower — Bower, the BidNomy assistant — chat over the whole record set, with every answer citing the notices it was built from, and automations that re-run a question for you.
  • Chat — Ask Bower anything about the records; every answer cites its notices.
  • Bid documents — Have Bower draft a Statement of Work, a proposal, a compliance matrix or an executive summary from the tender and your own prices.
  • Files — Upload a tender document, have its text read out, and ask Bower what it actually says.
  • Automations — Questions that re-run on a schedule and tell you what changed.
  • Memory — What Bower has learned from your chats, for you and for your organisation, and how to make it forget.
• Opportunities — Work you can still bid for — open tenders (AusTender, BuyICT and the states), work coming up, panels, grant rounds and forecasts — and the alerts that watch them.
  • Open tenders — Approaches to market open now, in every jurisdiction.
  • Coming up — Work agencies have flagged but not yet released.
  • Panels — Panels and standing offers: open to join, or already awarded.
  • Grants — Grant rounds open now, and who won past rounds.
  • Alerts — Searches that email you when new matches appear.
• Business development — Pipelines, bids, tasks, tags and custom fields — the part of the product that is your team's work, not the public record.
  • Company profile — Your company from public contract records.
  • Account plans — A plan for each agency account.
  • Pipelines — Bids by stage, across the team.
  • Bids — Each tender you are chasing, with owner, stage and value.
  • Tasks — To-dos on your bids, with due dates.
• Market intelligence — Who buys what, from whom, for how much — contracts, the ACT's payments, suppliers, market size, market share, expiring contracts and Analytics.
  • Contracts — Awarded contracts. ACT payments sit on their own tab.
  • ACT payments — Invoices of A$25,000 or more paid by ACT Government entities — what the register is, and what it is not.
  • Suppliers — Every supplier, what they won and from whom.
  • Market size — How much is contracted in a category, by year and buyer.
  • Market share — Who is gaining and losing share in a category.
  • Expiring contracts — Contracts ending soon: the next round of tenders.
  • Analytics — Dashboards, in a new tab.
• Government — The buyers — agency profiles, what we hold for each state and territory, the budget programs that fund the work, and the categories they buy under.
  • Agencies — Every buying agency and what it spends.
  • States and territories — What we hold for each state and territory, and where it comes from.
  • Budget programs — Budget programs from the Portfolio Budget Statements, joined to the contracts and grants funded under them.
  • Categories — How big a market is — what was bought under each category, by whom, and what is open now, in UNSPSC, the states' own labels and GrantConnect's.
• Account — The account menu — your profile, passkeys and two-step verification, the team and seats, plans and billing, API keys, MCP, where your notifications go — and support.
  • Signing in — Signing up, trials, trusted devices, two-step verification and passkeys.
  • Profile and company — Your organisation's details and how the workspace looks.
  • Team and seats — Members, invitations and seats.
  • Plans and billing — Plan, credits and invoices.
  • Notifications — Where alerts and updates go.
  • API keys and MCP — Keys for the records API, and connecting your own AI client.
  • Downloads and limits — How many rows and files you can download, and the reading limits.
• Help — Getting an answer from us, and what changed lately.
  • Support — Ask us a question and see our replies.
  • What's new — Recent changes, in the app.

Dates and times

Timestamps, including uploads, account activity, AI runs and deadlines, display in your browser or device timezone. Point at a timestamp to see its original value and timezone. Dates published without a time, and month-only dates, keep their original calendar value.

Business schedules keep their own boundaries: task date/time inputs and promotion schedules use Australia/Sydney, including daylight saving. AI credit periods and their daily usage bars also use Sydney. AI traces daily bars use UTC, as labelled; individual run times use your device timezone. Changing your device timezone changes the display, without moving stored deadlines or scheduled runs.