Been thinking a lot lately about what makes a great automation client.
Public sector kept coming up. Slow to change, massive budgets, predictable
procurement cycles, and they’re legally required to publish every contract
publicly. The barrier to get in is high, but once you’re in, you’re in.
The problem is finding the right opportunities at the right time. Public
tenders get published daily across multiple portals. By the time a relevant
one gets noticed manually, the deadline is already close or someone else
got there first.
So I built a monitor.
Every morning it automatically pulls all new Austrian public tenders from
official EU sources, downloads each PDF, and uses easybits to extract the
key data, title, contracting authority, federal state, contract value,
deadline, CPV code, contact email. Anything above €100k lands in Slack
within minutes of publication. Everything else gets stored quietly.
The Slack message looks like this:
Neue Ausschreibung – Österreich
Titel: Website Redesign
Auftraggeber: Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Bundesland: Niederösterreich
Auftragswert: 350.000 €
Frist: 04/05/2026 12:00:00
CPV: 72413000
Kontakt: Email
PDF: Link
No more manual searching. No more missed deadlines.
What I want to build on top of this next:
- Vector database storing every extracted tender for semantic search
- Slack slash command powered by OpenAI — type a question in natural
language, get back matching tenders with citations from the original PDFs
- Automatic bid drafting using the extracted tender fields
- Same setup for other EU countries — the data is all publicly available
Free template JSON in the comments. For questions on the data sources or
if you want help setting this up for your country or industry —
terence.hielscher@easybits.tech, happy to talk.