Government and public tenders
Which RFP software is built for public sector tenders?
Short answer
6 response tools document public tender workflows: Realm, Tenderbolt, AutogenAI, Xait, Tendium and Stotles. Match the tool to your procurement market: language, portal and document conventions differ by country, and the specialists usually go deep on one region.
Tools that qualify, with the evidence
| Tool | Evidence | Source | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Realm | Realm points AI agents at the whole sales cycle for software companies: RFPs, public tenders, security questionnaires, tailored collateral, and instant answers for revenue teams in chat and Slack. | withrealm.comas of Oct 2026 | Custom |
| Tenderbolt | AI responses for public tenders, hosted in the EU | tenderbolt.aias of Oct 2026 | Custom |
| AutogenAI | AutogenAI is an LLM-first proposal writer for long-form, essay-style narrative bids, mostly federal and government work, including international public-sector tenders. | autogenai.comas of Jul 2026 | Custom |
| Xait | Xait is built for the painful bids: multi-author documents and complex quotes where version control usually falls apart, with a permission model made for energy, industrial, and public tenders. | xait.comas of Oct 2026 | Custom |
| Tendium | Ingests public tenders with AI summaries and Smart Checklists for bid/no-bid, then drafts bid responses from your Content Library with the Writing Assistant; it is built around public-sector tenders rather than high-volume questionnaire answering. | tendium.comas of Oct 2026 | €125/mo |
| Stotles | Tender tracking across government portals, plus pre-tender notices | stotles.comas of Oct 2026 | £0 (Free plan) |
Why this question matters
Public tenders in Europe and elsewhere follow national procurement rules, run on national portals and arrive as large document sets. Tools in this lane read the tender pack, check fit and draft against the stated criteria.
Which one fits your situation
- If you need a go or no-go read before writing, start with Realm, Tenderbolt and Tendium.
- If you need data hosted in the EU, start with Tenderbolt, AutogenAI and Tendium.
What to test in a trial
- Use a tender pack from your main market and check the requirement extraction.
- Check that the tool handles the language and document formats your portal uses.
Caveats
- Several tools here are strongest in one country; the evidence names it where recorded.
- Portal integrations differ by country.
How we decided who qualifies
Only RFP, DDQ and questionnaire response tools with a published profile are checked. A tool is named here only when its record shows the rule above, either in a sourced research fact or in the reviewed profile, and we publish an answer only when at least three tools qualify. A tool missing from the table may still do this; it has not been documented in a way we could source. Read the research methodology for how facts are dated and corrected.
More questions on this topic
How are public tenders different from private RFPs?
They follow procurement law, publish scoring criteria and penalise non-compliance strictly, so requirement tracking matters more.
Can a general RFP tool handle tenders?
For the answering part, often. Tender discovery and compliance checks are where specialists add value.