Know which security tenders are worth bidding for
Tendly finds relevant security and safety contracts, reads the tender documents and helps you decide where your time is best spent.
Security tenders by category
Browse active tender opportunities for surveillance, alarms, protective equipment, guarding services and safety systems across 23 countries.
Security Equipment
Surveillance, alarms, protective equipment, fire-fighting and rescue gear.
View tendersBusiness Services
Guarding, monitoring, investigation and other security services.
View tendersElectrical Equipment
Access control hardware, sensors, cabling and control systems.
View tendersPublic Administration
Contracts from police, rescue services, defence and public authorities.
View tendersSecurity tenders open across 23 countries
A live sample from Tendly's database of public security procurement, from surveillance and access control to protective equipment and rescue gear.
Supply of the re-stamping of 38 argon gas cylinders (IG-01) and 2 N2 cylinders for the fire extinguishing system of the documentary archives of the General Archive of Simancas
Announcement of Open Electronic Tender (below thresholds) No. Protocol 720/2026 -@IMET/EKETA
Framework agreement for the supply of spare parts and other components for short-barreled weapon systems
Built for every side of the security sector
Security equipment suppliers
Find surveillance, alarm and protective equipment tenders that match your product range, with the certification classes and test report requirements read out of the documents.
Guarding and monitoring providers
Spot guarding, patrol and monitoring contracts early, and see the licence, staffing and response-time requirements before you commit a team.
Systems integrators and installers
Match access control, CCTV and alarm installation projects against your certifications, including security scopes hidden inside construction and renovation tenders.
Fire safety and rescue equipment suppliers
Track fire-fighting, rescue and safety equipment tenders from rescue services and municipalities, with EN standard requirements summarised for you.
Security tenders are won or lost in the details
Relevant contracts are difficult to find
Security scopes hide inside broader tenders: an access control system inside a school renovation, monitoring inside a facilities contract. Titles alone rarely tell you.
Tendly matches on your products, services and markets, and its AI search reads past the title into the tender's own documents, so buried security scopes still reach you.
Requirements are spread across many documents
Technical specifications, certification classes, integration requirements, confidentiality terms 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 clearances
Security activity licences, personnel background checks, installer certifications and comparable references: 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 designs a system.
One contract clause can change the bid decision
Response times and service levels, penalties for false alarms or missed patrols, confidentiality obligations and liability terms sit in the draft contract, not the tender notice.
Tendly's risk analysis reads the contract conditions and lists the clauses that affect margin and delivery risk, before you decide to bid rather than after you win.
Incumbents quietly win the renewals
Many security contracts are re-procurements of running services and installed systems. Without knowing who holds them and at what price, you cannot tell an open race from a formality.
Buyer and competitor intelligence shows the buyer's previous suppliers and contract values, so you can pick the tenders where a challenger has a real chance.
Everything you need to assess a security tender
Find contracts that match your company
Tendly matches new security tenders against the products and services your company actually delivers, 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 security requirements
Tendly reads the 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 the contract term.
Learn from previous awards
Buyer and competitor intelligence shows who protects the buyer today, 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 security companies ask it every day.
A security tender workflow that holds together
Make a company profile
Products, services, licences, references and preferred markets.
Receive matched opportunities
Ranked security tenders with alerts for new matches and deadlines.
Review qualification and risk
Requirements, evidence and contract risks read out of the documents.
Analyse requirements and documents
Specifications, service levels 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, products and what your company can deliver.
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2 Matching and risk analysis
Your expert shortlists security 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 security 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
- Security activity licences for the market
- Personnel background checks and clearances
- Installer and product certifications
- Comparable references and financial standing
Scope and requirements
- Technical specifications and certification classes
- Integration with existing systems and monitoring
- Response times and staffing requirements
- Training, handover and documentation obligations
Commercial terms
- Service levels and penalty rules
- Confidentiality and data protection obligations
- 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
Security tender questions, answered
How can I find public security tenders?
Tendly monitors more than 150,000 public tenders across 23 countries and updates daily. You can browse live security tenders by category and country, or make a company profile so matching and email alerts bring relevant contracts to you, including security scopes inside broader tenders.
Can Tendly show the licence and clearance requirements?
Yes. The requirements analysis reads the eligibility criteria out of the documents: activity licences, personnel background checks, installer certifications, references and submission documents, so you know before anyone designs a system.
Can Tendly analyse the certification classes required?
Certification classes and standards live in the technical specification, and the chat reads them out per product group, including which test reports or certificates must be submitted with the bid.
What about response times and service levels?
They are part of the draft contract, and the risk analysis reads them out: required response and repair times, penalty rules and how performance is measured over the term.
Can Tendly tell us who protects the buyer today?
Buyer intelligence shows a contracting authority's award history: who has won its security contracts, at what values, and whether the same supplier wins repeatedly, which matters when an installed system gives the incumbent an advantage.
Can part of the delivery be subcontracted?
Subcontracting rules differ per procedure and are often stricter in security contracts. Ask the chat and it reads the rules out of that tender's own conditions, including clearance requirements for subcontractor personnel.
Can Tendly help prepare the complete security 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 security 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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