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Procura — Coming Soon
Tendering is broken. Not dramatically. Just quietly, expensively, and every single day.
A builder phones three groundworks firms. One doesn’t answer. One sends a price on a Post-it. One emails a figure with no breakdown and the word “circa” in front of it. The builder picks the middle one and hopes for the best.
An architect issues tender documents by email, chases confirmations for a week, gets prices back in seven different formats, and spends a Friday afternoon trying to reconcile figures that weren’t built on the same assumptions.
A sub-contractor prices a job properly — time, materials, attendance, risk — submits it, and never hears back. Not even a no.
Nobody is being malicious. The process is just held together with email threads, spreadsheets, and goodwill. It works until it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, someone is standing on a site wondering why the numbers don’t add up.
Procura is a structured e-tendering platform built specifically for the construction industry in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
It brings the full tender process — document issue, query management, priced returns, competitive bidding, and award — into one place. Every step logged, timestamped, and traceable. Every sub-contractor drawn from a shared register of over 10,000 Irish and Northern Irish construction companies, so nobody types the same firm’s details twice.
For main contractors, it means sub-contract packages issued properly, returned properly, and compared properly — with an audit trail that holds up.
For architects and quantity surveyors, it means a tender process that runs on a deadline, not on whoever replied to the last email.
For sub-contractors, it means a fair shot — a clear scope, a real deadline, and confirmation that their price was received.
Procura launches soon.
Early access is open to architects, contractors, and quantity surveying practices across Ireland and Northern Ireland. If you want to be among the first to use it — or to help shape what it becomes — get in touch.
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