Stotles

Stotles is a public-sector sales and bidding platform for teams that need to find opportunities, qualify tenders and prepare responses. It is strongest for suppliers that want buyer intelligence and bid work in one system, rather than a standalone tender tracker.

Overview

Founded in 2017, Stotles brings opportunity discovery, tender document management and a reusable content library together. Its market data spans more than 100 procurement portals and is updated every two hours; the data includes tenders, contract awards, government buyers, buyer contacts, invoices and documents. That breadth gives public-sector sales teams more context than a tender feed alone, though teams focused only on response production may not need the sales research side.

Key features

Find opportunities and buying signals

Stotles combines tender information from hundreds of portals in a feed, with AI relevance scoring and email alerts. Its AI also examines budgets, board minutes, strategy papers and policy announcements for signs of buying intent before a formal tender appears. This is useful for teams trying to shape a pipeline earlier; it is less essential for suppliers who only want to react to published opportunities.

Qualify and draft bids

For qualification, Stotles AI reads tender packs, assesses viability, flags risks and links requirements back to their source. It can also draft responses using a customer’s content library, market data and internet sources. The source-linked requirements help teams review what a qualification judgment rests on, while response drafting still depends on maintaining useful, relevant content in the library.

Integrations and security

Integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, Microsoft Teams and the Stotles API, plus a beta MCP integration. MCP users need a paid Stotles account and use their existing login. Stotles states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, with single sign-on and MFA support. Support varies by tier: live chat on Basic, core customer success on Growth, and advanced support, advisory and enablement on Expert.

Pricing

Stotles uses a freemium model, with separate Sales Studio and Bid Studio options. The free tiers provide a way to start, but their scope is limited: Sales Studio Free includes tender tracking and pre-tenders, while Bid Studio Free adds three AI bid/no-bid reports, tender tracking and alerts, and self-serve support.

• Sales Studio Basic: £75.00 per month, with upcoming expiring contracts and live chat support. It suits teams that want a modest step beyond free tracking, but does not include the buyer and competitor intelligence listed for Growth.
• Sales Studio Growth: £475.00 per month, adding buyer and competitor/partner intelligence, frameworks, documents and spend, and decision-maker contacts. It is the more appropriate Sales Studio choice for teams doing active buyer research.
• Sales Studio Expert: custom pricing, with a market analysis suite, multi-team configuration and integration support. Its listed additions point to larger or more complex sales operations.
• Bid Studio Growth: £990.00 per month, with 15 AI bid/no-bid reports per month, five bid projects a month and a secure hosted bid content library. The monthly quotas make it a defined-capacity option, not an unlimited drafting service.
• Bid Studio Expert: custom pricing, with unlimited AI bid qualification, uncapped response generation and large-scale bid process tools. It is aimed at teams whose bid volume exceeds Growth’s stated limits.

The free plans are useful for initial tracking or a small number of qualification reports, but they do not include the paid tiers’ expanded intelligence or bid-production capacity. Teams should match the plan to their work: Sales Studio centres on market and buyer research, while the much higher-priced Bid Studio Growth is for a substantial bid workflow.

Platforms

Stotles is available on the web and through an API. Its deployment is web-based, so it suits teams working in a browser and connecting data to supported business tools.

Who it's for

Stotles is built for public-sector go-to-market, sales and bid teams. It fits suppliers that want to spot early buying intent, monitor tenders and qualify or draft bids using shared market and company content. It is a weaker fit for organizations that only need a basic tender list or a bid tool without sales intelligence.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Early signals drawn from budgets, board minutes and policy material can help teams pursue demand before a formal tender is published.
• Pro: Tender monitoring, source-linked qualification and response drafting connect opportunity discovery to bid preparation.
• Pro: Sales and bid plans can be selected separately, and the free tiers provide a limited starting point.
• Con: Bid Studio Growth costs £990.00 per month and caps work at 15 qualification reports and five projects each month.
• Con: The free bid tier allows only three AI bid/no-bid reports, so it is not a sustained qualification workflow.
• Con: The richer Sales Studio intelligence starts at Growth, at £475.00 per month; Basic is limited to upcoming expiring contracts among the listed sales features.

Alternatives

For a broader comparison, browse Bid Management Software. Choose BidNet Direct instead if you want a free web-based option to browse and submit bids, with real-time bid matches; its paid Regional plan is USD 200.00, while Local pricing is custom. Smart Tenders is a lower-cost option for suppliers testing a repeatable tender workflow: its Starter founding plan is £49.00 per month, billed monthly, and includes one saved sector filter and one active tender pack; Supplier Workspace is £79.0.

Octant is another option for buyers seeking a paid product across API, self-hosted, web and Windows platforms. Raspond suits teams looking for a freemium web/API RFP tool, with a free Starter plan that has monthly and storage limits. Sweetspot offers a paid product with a personalized, no-commitment 30-minute demo. GovWin IQ is worth considering for federal, state and local, education, or Canadian market intelligence, with package features varying by market. GovTribe is a paid alternative with a Launch Plus annual plan at USD 1,900.00 for one user and up to 10 pursuits. Projectory AI is another web-based option, with a free 30-day trial tier and a Professional plan at USD 299.00 per month.

Verdict

Choose Stotles if your public-sector sales or bid team needs early buying signals, tender discovery and AI-assisted qualification or drafting in one platform. Its breadth is the main reason to choose it; the cost and capped Bid Studio Growth workload are the main reasons to look elsewhere if your team needs only basic tracking or handles many more bids each month.