Know which transport tenders are worth bidding for
Tendly finds relevant transport and logistics contracts, reads the tender documents and helps you decide where your time is best spent.
Transport tenders by category
Browse active tender opportunities for passenger transport, freight, warehousing, fleet equipment and courier services across 23 countries.
Transport & Logistics
Passenger transport, road freight, public transport routes and logistics services.
View tendersTransport Equipment
Buses, trucks, specialist vehicles, spare parts and fleet equipment.
View tendersTransport Support Services
Warehousing, cargo handling, terminal operations and freight forwarding.
View tendersPostal & Courier Services
Mail, parcel delivery and courier service contracts.
View tendersTransport and logistics tenders open across 23 countries
A live sample from Tendly's database of public transport procurement, from bus routes and school transport to freight frameworks and ferry services.
Provision of specialized transport services
SANITARY TRANSPORT SERVICES FOR PATIENTS FOR THE TERRITORIAL HOSPITAL GROUP OF CHARENTE
Granting of a taxi license by tender.
Built for every side of transport and logistics
Passenger transport operators
Find bus route contracts, school and patient transport and demand-responsive services, with the fleet and timetable requirements read out of the documents.
Freight and haulage companies
Spot road freight frameworks, distribution contracts and specialist transport early, and see the certification and mobilisation requirements before you commit vehicles.
Warehousing and freight forwarding providers
Match storage, cargo handling and forwarding contracts against your facilities and capacity, including logistics scopes inside larger supply tenders.
Courier and postal operators
Catch mail, parcel and courier service tenders as they are published, with the service levels and volume estimates summarised for you.
Transport tenders are won or lost in the details
Relevant contracts are difficult to find
Transport scopes hide inside broader tenders: a delivery contract inside a supply framework, a shuttle service inside a facilities tender. Titles alone rarely tell you.
Tendly matches on your services, fleet and markets, and its AI search reads past the title into the tender's own documents, so buried transport scopes still reach you.
Requirements are spread across many documents
Routes and timetables, vehicle and emission requirements, driver qualifications and the draft contract arrive as separate attachments, and any one can contain a dealbreaker.
Tendly reads the attachments from the source portal and answers questions across the whole pack, so requirements stop hiding in annex seven of twenty.
Eligibility hinges on licences and fleet
Transport licences, vehicle age and emission classes, comparable contracts and financial standing: miss one mandatory criterion and the bid is out before evaluation starts.
Tendly's requirements analysis lists what the buyer demands and what evidence proves it, so you know whether you qualify before anyone plans a route.
One contract clause can change the bid decision
Fuel and wage indexation, penalties for delays and cancellations, fleet investment obligations and contract length sit in the draft contract, not the tender notice.
Tendly's risk analysis reads the contract conditions and lists the clauses that affect margin over the whole term, before you decide to bid rather than after you win.
Incumbents quietly win the renewals
Many transport contracts are re-procurements of running services. Without knowing who operates them and at what price, you cannot tell an open race from a formality.
Buyer and competitor intelligence shows the buyer's previous operators and contract values, so you can pick the tenders where a challenger has a real chance.
Everything you need to assess a transport tender
Find contracts that match your company
Tendly matches new transport tenders against the services and fleet your company actually runs, and alerts you when something relevant is published or a deadline approaches.
Check whether you qualify
Tendly reads the eligibility requirements out of the tender documents and shows what evidence your company needs, and where you would need a partner.
Analyse specifications and service schedules
Tendly reads the service specifications and annexes in the tender pack, including the attachments on the source portal, and answers questions across all of it.
Understand contract and margin risk
The risk analysis reads the draft contract and conditions and lists the clauses that decide whether the margin survives a multi-year term.
Learn from previous awards
Buyer and competitor intelligence shows who runs the buyer's current services, at what values, and how crowded the field usually is.
Prepare the tender
Generate response documents, fill the buyer's official forms in their original format and run a compliance check, or hand the whole bid to a Tendly tender expert.
Ask questions directly from the tender documents
Tendly's chat reads the tender's own attachments, fetched from the source portal, and answers in your language. These are the kinds of questions transport teams ask it every day.
A transport tender workflow that holds together
Make a company profile
Services, fleet, references, capacity and preferred markets.
Receive matched opportunities
Ranked transport tenders with alerts for new matches and deadlines.
Review qualification and risk
Requirements, evidence and contract risks read out of the documents.
Analyse schedules and documents
Routes, timetables, specifications and draft contracts questioned in chat.
Make the bid decision
A bid or no-bid call grounded in eligibility, competition and risk.
Prepare the response
Forms filled in their official format, documents generated and checked.
Submit, with expert support if needed
A tender expert can prepare and review the pack; you always approve.
Track deadlines and changes
Pipeline, calendar and alerts keep every running bid visible.
Your own tender expert, from €199 per month
A dedicated Tendly tender expert, supported by tender data from 23 countries, prepares your entire bid. You approve everything before it goes out.
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1 Intro call
Tell us your markets, services and what your company can deliver.
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2 Matching and risk analysis
Your expert shortlists transport tenders worth bidding, with the requirements and risks read out of the documents.
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3 We prepare, you approve
Every document, form and compliance check done for you. Nothing is submitted without your approval.
Tight deadline, new market, foreign-language documents, or no bid manager in house: this is what the service is for.
Plus a success fee, only when a bid we prepare wins. Agreed in writing before any work starts; lose the tender and there is no fee.
- Every bid document prepared: proposals, financial offers, forms, CVs
- Compliance and eligibility checked before submission
- Local portals, languages and paperwork handled
- Nothing submitted without your approval
What should you check before bidding on a transport tender?
A practical pre-bid checklist. Miss any of these and the bid is either non-compliant or unprofitable, usually discovered too late to fix.
Company and eligibility
- Transport licences and permits for the service
- Comparable contracts in scale and type
- Fleet size, age and emission-class requirements
- Insurance and financial standing
Scope and service requirements
- Routes, timetables and estimated volumes
- Vehicle and equipment specifications
- Staffing and driver qualification requirements
- Transition and service start-up obligations
Commercial terms
- Price indexation for fuel and wages
- Penalties for delays and cancellations
- Payment terms and invoicing rules
- Contract length and extension options
Submission
- Portal registration and e-signature requirements
- Every document the buyer expects, in the required format
- Clarification deadline and questions to send before it
- Submission deadline and required validity period
Transport tender questions, answered
How can I find public transport and logistics tenders?
Tendly monitors more than 150,000 public tenders across 23 countries and updates daily. You can browse live transport tenders by category and country, or make a company profile so matching and email alerts bring relevant contracts to you, including transport scopes inside broader tenders.
Can Tendly analyse the routes and service schedules?
Yes. Tendly reads the tender's attachments, including route lists, timetables, volume estimates and vehicle requirements, and answers questions about specific requirements in your language.
Can Tendly check whether our fleet qualifies?
The requirements analysis lists the eligibility criteria out of the documents: licences, vehicle age and emission classes, comparable contracts, insurance and submission documents, so you know before anyone plans a route.
How does Tendly handle price indexation clauses?
Ask the chat and it reads the indexation formula out of the draft contract: what is indexed, against which index, how often and with what caps, so you can judge whether the margin survives a multi-year term.
Can Tendly tell us who operates the current contract?
Buyer intelligence shows a contracting authority's award history: who has won its transport contracts, at what values, and whether the same operator wins repeatedly, which is often the single most useful fact when deciding whether to challenge a re-procurement.
Can part of the routes be subcontracted?
Subcontracting rules live in the tender documents, and they differ per procedure. Ask the chat and it reads the rules out of that tender's own conditions, including any limits and declaration requirements.
Can Tendly help prepare the complete transport bid?
The AI tools generate response documents, fill the buyer's official forms in their original format and review the pack for gaps. If you would rather hand it over completely, a Tendly tender expert can prepare every document in the bid for you: technical proposals, financial offers, forms, CVs and the compliance checks. You approve everything before submission.
Can Tendly help if we have never entered a public tender before?
Yes. The chat explains how public procurement works in plain language, the requirements analysis shows exactly what a specific tender demands, and the expert service can carry a first bid end to end so your team learns the process on a real contract.
Can Tendly help us bid in another country?
Tendly covers 23 countries and answers in your language even when the tender documents are not. For a first bid in a new market, the tender expert handles the local portal, language and paperwork.
Do we need to speak the local language to bid?
You can research any tender in your own language: Tendly reads the original documents and answers in the language you write in. The submission itself usually must follow the buyer's language rules, which the documents state, and the tender expert can prepare it for you.
Find transport tenders worth your time
Relevant contracts, faster document analysis and a clear view of the requirements and risk, with AI tools for every day and a tender expert for the bids that matter.
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