The Tenders API
Automate your tender process and produce consistent bids in hours.
The Africa Compute Fund is combining infrastructure and applied AI research to make compute usable for real work by turning complex operational tasks into consistent, repeatable workflows.
In many institutions and supplier teams, tender and grant application work is still document-heavy and manual. People chase PDFs, juggle compliance checklists, rewrite the same narratives, format the same attachments, and sprint toward deadlines with zero tolerance for error.
Tendering is the clearest example of this reality.
Tenders are how serious institutions buy. They’re designed for auditability and control, which means the work becomes document-heavy, exacting, and repetitive. For suppliers, one submission can change a quarter. For procurement teams, one mistake can trigger delays, disputes, or disqualification. The whole system is high-stakes, but it is still being run like a manual craft.
So we’re announcing the Tenders API.
Tenders API
The Tenders API is a structured process you can run with your tender documents and your supplier/company documents, to produce a submission pack that is complete, organized, and aligned with the tender requirements.
It’s an AI workflow that does the heavy lifting that usually eats days: reading, extracting requirements, building checklists, mapping evidence, drafting response sections, and assembling everything into a clean submission structure.
Tendering has three properties that make it ideal for automation:
The format is predictable. Most tenders share the same shape: eligibility, compliance, technical response, financial response, forms, attachments, certifications, deadlines.
The penalty for small mistakes is brutal. Missing one document, mislabeling one file, ignoring one clause, or failing one formatting rule can disqualify you.
The work is heavy but systematic. It’s extraction, mapping, formatting, checklists, and consistency. That’s exactly what AI workflows are good at.
The goal is simple: reduce the time and errors involved in turning real supplier information into a compliant, readable tender response.
How It Works
Because this runs as a standardized job on our compute infrastructure, the process is consistent and repeatable. The workflow looks like this:
You provide the tender pack
The tender document(s), templates, forms, annexes, and any instructions.You provide your supplier pack
Company profile, statutory documents, certifications, past performance, team CVs, references, pricing assumptions—what you actually have.You set the objective
Example: “Produce a compliant submission for this tender,” plus any emphasis like experience areas, delivery approach, or how you want things presented.The system runs a tender workflow
It will:
Extract all requirements and deadlines.
Build a compliance checklist (requirement-by-requirement).
Map your evidence/documents to each requirement.
Flag missing items early (so you don’t discover gaps on deadline day).
Draft response sections based on your real inputs.
Assemble a structured submission pack you can review.
You review and approve.
You stay in control. You decide what is true, what you can claim, and what you will submit. The workflow reduces the assembly burden and the risk of omissions.
The output is:
A submission pack (organized, consistent, ready to finalize).
A traceable checklist showing what was addressed vs what’s missing.
That is the real promise: less chaos, fewer mistakes, faster throughput.
Time Saved
Most tender responses take a long time. A typical tender response cycle can consume:
2–5 full working days of document handling and assembly for a small/medium bid.
1–3 weeks when it’s complex, multi-section, multi-attachment, multi-approval.
The Tenders API is built to compress the assembly work dramatically. In practical terms, you should expect:
The first structured draft pack within hours, not days.
The biggest savings on compliance checklist + evidence mapping + packaging, which is where most time gets wasted and most disqualifications happen.
You still do the high-responsibility parts (pricing strategy, final claims, approvals). The system handles the grind.
What the Tender API is not:
It does not fabricate credentials.
It does not guarantee you win.
It does not replace legal review, pricing strategy, or business reality.
It compresses the operational burden of producing a compliant submission from your real information.
Pricing
The Tenders API runs as a metered workflow on the Africa Compute Grid. Activation is free. It is the onboarding step that connects you to the grid, verifies your workflow inputs, and makes sure you can run your first tender job cleanly.
For teams that want more than self-serve onboarding, we also offer optional Activation plans. These are for connecting to the grid properly and setting your process up once, so every tender run after that is faster and cleaner.
After Activation, payment is simple: you top up credits and spend them as you run jobs. Before you run a job, we show you an estimate. You can approve the run, adjust scope, or stop.
Each tender run consumes credits based on the work performed, for example how much document parsing and extraction is required, how many forms and annexes are involved, how much evidence mapping is needed, and how large the final submission pack is.
You can top up using mobile money or card. Your balance is deducted automatically as runs complete, and you can always see what was produced and what was spent.
If you bid repeatedly, there are optional plans that give you better rates and predictable monthly usage, but the core model stays the same: Activate, top up, run tenders, and pay only for what you use.
Get Access
This is built for people who already understand tenders and want a faster, cleaner, more reliable way to produce compliant submissions:
SMEs bidding for government/corporate work.
Consultants who prepare bids for clients.
NGOs and vendors responding to donor procurement.
Internal bid teams submitting repeatedly and wanting standardization.
Get started with an Activation to connect to the grid, then run your first tender job through the API.
