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Find the work. Win the bid. Stay on site.

Jonty finds the public sector building, repair and maintenance contracts that fit your trade, reads the tender pack, writes the bid with you and submits it once you approve.

For builders, contractors, civil engineers and trades businesses who sell to councils, schools, housing and the NHS, or want to.

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Read what the film says

An 86-second film. A voice speaks over footage of building and repair work, then over Jonty’s screens, which follow one contract from the day Jonty spots it to the day it is submitted. The voice is quoted. The other words on screen are listed under it.

  1. A worker in a hi-vis vest works on a scaffold board beside a white building, with a paint tub next to him. Then a close view of a hand fixing the pipes under a sink.

    Public sector work is steady work.

  2. An aerial view over rows of red-brick terraced streets, then four short shots: a crew resurfacing a residential road with a roller, a worker in overalls and a mask spray-painting an empty room, a worker in a hard hat breaking plaster off a wall, and a hospital corridor. The fact moves to the top corner, and each buyer name appears as a label with its shot.

    More than a quarter of new construction work is for the public sector.

    Councils. Academy trusts. Housing associations. NHS trusts.

    • Great Britain, 2025. Source: ONS construction statistics.

  3. A man sits in a vehicle, talks on his phone and reads papers, and a closing-time stamp appears. Then a builder in a white hard hat and safety glasses studies a drawing in a room with plastic sheeting on the windows, while a list of tender files builds up beside him.

    But by the time you hear about a tender, it closes on Friday.

    Then the pack is longer than the job spec.

    • Closes Friday 12:00
    • Invitation to tender
    • Specification
    • NHF Schedule of Rates (v8)
    • JCT Measured Term Contract
    • Procurement Specific Questionnaire
    • Pre-construction information (CDM 2015)
    • + 8 more files

  4. Close up, hands fill in a form on a clipboard beside a yellow hard hat, with two question labels above. Then, in black and white, a building site behind a hoarding is seen from the street with a locked card over it, and the picture darkens as one orange dot appears in the middle.

    They want method statements and social value. You just want to build.

    And if you’re not on the framework, you never see the call-offs.

    • Q3.2 Method statement: damp and mould · max 1,000 words
    • Q5.1 Social value · weighted 10%
    • Repairs Framework
    • Wyvernside Housing Partnership · Suppliers only

  5. The film cuts to cream, and the orange dot becomes the full stop in the name “Jonty.”, with “Bid Manager” under it. Then the Set-up screen: an orange voice orb for a call with Jonty, beside a company profile with three trades ticked.

    Meet Jonty Bid Manager.

    Tell it what you do.

    • Set-up
    • On a call with Jonty
    • Ellerwick Building and Maintenance Ltd
    • Yorkshire · Councils and housing associations
    • What you do
    • Repairs
    • Voids
    • Roofing

  6. One contract card, flagged before its tender, with the orange dot beside the date the current contract ends. In Find, the dot ticks off five sources, the results of a keyword alert are struck out, and the card turns into an open tender with a value and a match score, then grows to fill the screen.

    It spots contracts coming back to market, often months before the tender.

    No keyword lists: it finds the work that fits.

    • Spot it early
    • Pre-tender
    • Re-tender · Housing services
    • Responsive Repairs and Voids
    • Hartwold Borough Council
    • Contract ends 31 March
    • Find
    • Sources Jonty reads
    • Find a Tender
    • Contracts Finder
    • Public Contracts Scotland
    • EU-Supply
    • TED (EU)
    • Keyword alert: repairs
    • Hearing aid repairs
    • Photocopier repairs
    • Piano repairs
    • Tender
    • Open
    • £4.8m
    • Match: 91/100
    • Repairs and voids, in your area.

  7. Qualify: the dot reads across the 14 documents in the tender pack, five hard gates tick one by one, and a dark “Bid” verdict appears. Write: a method statement answer types in with its source, and the next line leaves a highlighted gap for a number the firm must add.

    It reads every page of the pack, checks your accreditations, and says: bid, or pass.

    It drafts your method statements and social value from past bids. Where proof is missing, it leaves a gap.

    • Qualify
    • Tender pack
    • 14 documents read
    • Hard gates
    • Pass/fail · checked against your Vault
    • 5 of 5 cleared
    • SSIP: Verified · Vault
    • PL £10m: Verified · Vault
    • EL £10m: Verified · Vault
    • ISO 9001: Verified · Vault
    • Turnover £2.4m+: Self-declared
    • Bid
    • Similar repairs contracts
    • Spec, p.4
    • Write
    • Q3.1 Method statement
    • Void turnaround
    • Voids inspected two days from keys in.
    • Source: Past bid, p.12
    • Average turnaround: [Add: days]
    • 1 gap to fill

  8. Submit: an approval card where a cursor labelled “You” clicks Approve, then a progress bar runs to “Submitted” with a green tick. Frameworks too: the same Repairs Framework from before, now open, with an application ready to review.

    You approve. Jonty submits.

    And it helps you get on the framework.

    • Submit
    • Submit response to Hartwold Borough Council?
    • Nothing changes until you approve this.
    • Approve
    • Dismiss
    • You
    • Submitting on the buyer’s portal
    • Submitted
    • Frameworks too
    • Repairs Framework
    • Wyvernside Housing Partnership
    • Open framework · reopens in March
    • What it takes: SSIP ✓ · Public liability £10m ✓ · Three case studies ✓
    • Application ready to review
    • Review

  9. Back on site, a close view of a bricklayer setting a brick on fresh mortar along a string line, with scaffolding behind. Then the end card on cream: the Jonty Bid Manager name with its orange full stop, and a dark button that carries the last spoken line.

    Jonty does the paperwork. You do the work.

    You stay on site.

    Get Bid Manager at askjonty.ai.

    • Questions? Book a call.
    • Illustrative screens. The buyers and figures on them are fictional.

Sound familiar?

Plenty of firms that could do the work never bid for it. It's rarely the work that stops them. It's the paperwork around it.

  • “By the time we hear about it, it closes on Friday.”

    Contracts are published across Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and regional portals. Checking them all is a job in itself, so tenders are found late or not at all.

  • “The tender pack is longer than the job spec.”

    Specifications, drawings, contract terms and questionnaires, spread over a dozen files. Someone has to read them all before you know whether it's even worth a go.

  • “They want method statements and social value. We just want to build.”

    After the insurance levels, accreditations and past projects come the quality questions: how you'll run the job, keep it safe and what you'll bring. Each one is an evening of writing.

  • “We're not on the framework, so we never see the work.”

    A lot of public building and maintenance work goes through . If you're not on one, its pass you by.

How Jonty handles it

The same steps for every contract. Jonty does the slow parts. You make the calls.

  1. 1. Spot it early

    Jonty tracks contracts coming back to market, often months before the tender, and tells you who buys what.

    In Scout and Bid Manager

  2. 2. Find

    Tell Jonty what you do in a short chat or call. It watches public sector sources across the UK and the EU and emails you the contracts that fit. No keyword lists.

    In Scout and Bid Manager

  3. 3. Qualify

    Jonty reads every page of the and checks the hard rules first, like insurance levels and accreditations, against your . Then it tells you to bid or pass, and shows the page behind each reason.

    In Bid Manager

  4. 4. Write

    Jonty drafts each answer, from method statements to social value, from your past bids and evidence. It leaves out anything it can't back up, and your bid library grows with every bid.

    In Bid Manager

  5. 5. Submit

    You approve the bid. Jonty then fills in the buyer's portal and submits it for you. Nothing goes to a buyer without your OK.

    In Bid Manager

  6. 6. Frameworks too

    Jonty tells you whether are worth joining, gathers what you need, and fills in and submits the application once you approve. When you're on one, Jonty brings you its .

    In Bid Manager

Proof

Where Jonty looks, how long it takes to set up, and the programmes it is part of.

Sources Jonty reads
Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, EU-Supply, TED (EU)
Set-up
7 minutes: a short chat or call with Jonty, no long forms.
Part of
NVIDIA Inception, Adopt 100 (Deloitte × NVIDIA), Cambridge Judge Business School

Jonty does the paperwork. You do the work.

Bid Manager finds the contracts, reads the packs, writes the bids with you and submits them once you approve. You stay on site.

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