GeBIZ tenders in Singapore: how to find, track and qualify them, with an AI agent watching

In this guide:

• What is GeBIZ, and what is a GeBIZ tender?
• How do you register as a GeBIZ Trading Partner?
• How do GeBIZ opportunity alerts work now?
• How do you check GeBIZ tender results?
• What the award data shows for FY2025
• A bid/no-bid brief template
• How an AI agent watches GeBIZ for you
• Common mistakes

What is GeBIZ, and what is a GeBIZ tender?

GeBIZ is the Singapore Government's one-stop e-procurement portal. Public-sector invitations for quotations and tenders are posted there, and suppliers use it to search GeBIZ opportunities, download documents and submit offers online. The Ministry of Finance sets the rules, including the value thresholds that decide which route a purchase takes:

Sources: MOF's procurement process page and its FY2026 Committee of Supply speech on Tender Lite, checked 16 October 2026.

How do you register as a GeBIZ Trading Partner, and what does it cost?

To download tender documents and submit offers you register as a GeBIZ Trading Partner, and the first account costs nothing. GeBIZ's own registration guides, for ACRA-registered and non-ACRA suppliers, say the first account is free and further accounts carry subscription fees. A Singapore company signs in through Corppass, so sort out who in your company holds Corppass access before a deadline does it for you. Some third-party sites quote registration fees; go by GeBIZ's own pages before paying anyone.

How do GeBIZ opportunity alerts work now?

Through RSS feeds, not the email alerts many guides still describe. GeBIZ's business alerts page says the GeBIZ Alert service on GoBusiness was discontinued on 28 February 2025, and that registered Trading Partners can instead subscribe to RSS feeds in a feed reader or a browser that supports them. According to the GeBIZ FAQ, the business opportunities feed refreshes hourly and lists open tenders and quotations, and the award feed refreshes daily.

Read the RSS terms of use before pointing any software at the feeds. They let you use the feeds as GeBIZ provides them, forbid editing their text, content or links, and require prior permission from DSTA (the Defence Science and Technology Agency) to hyperlink to or frame them, or to use them other than as GeBIZ intended. Independent services also email GeBIZ alerts; BidEx, for one, states that it is not affiliated with the Government of Singapore. Check how any such service collects its data and what it charges.

We could not confirm that GeBIZ's terms allow automated browsing of the portal itself, so the setup in this guide never crawls or scrapes GeBIZ pages.

How do you check GeBIZ tender results?

On GeBIZ itself, award information is published for each procurement and comes through the award feed. For analysis, the Ministry of Finance publishes Government Procurement via GeBIZ on data.gov.sg: awarded open tenders since FY2021, one row per award, with seven fields (tender number, description, agency, award date, status, supplier name and awarded amount). The current release covers April 2021 to March 2026, about 18,500 rows, and was last updated on 26 April 2026. Its coverage runs by financial year, which suggests a yearly refresh (our inference), and it holds tenders, not quotations or small purchases.

What the award data shows for FY2025

We downloaded all 18,464 rows through data.gov.sg's API on 16 October 2026 and looked at awards dated 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026, Singapore's FY2025. A tender awarded to several suppliers appears as several rows, so we summed them per tender number; tenders with the status "Awarded to No Suppliers" are counted separately.

Two readings for a bidder. Half of all awarded tenders fell between S$90,000 and S$1 million, the band Tender Lite now covers, so the simplified route is not a niche. And the 14 AI-related awards ran from an AI capture-the-flag challenge to a S$14.1 million AI and data analytics platform for the Department of Statistics: a keyword finds the topic, not the fit. Amounts are as published: a single award can cover several years, and 96 tenders show amounts under S$1,000 (several at S$1), which look like unit rates or placeholders rather than contract values. Treat the figures as a guide to scale, not a price list.

Should you bid? A bid/no-bid brief template

Most of the work in tendering is deciding which notices deserve the effort. Here is a brief an agent can fill in for every notice that passes a first fit check, so the person deciding reads one page instead of the whole notice:

How an AI agent watches GeBIZ for you

The agent works from what GeBIZ already sends out and from public award data, and stops where a commercial decision begins.

1. Alerts arrive by email. Subscribe to GeBIZ's feeds for your categories in a feed reader that emails new items, or use an alert service you trust, and let the agent watch that mailbox; Olano agents can watch a Gmail search or any mailbox over IMAP. Reading the feeds directly is possible too, but confirm with GeBIZ that the RSS terms cover it first.
2. The agent reads what it was sent, and nothing more. It does not crawl GeBIZ. Browser control is off by default on Olano and here it stays off; when a notice looks worth a closer look, a person opens it, downloads the documents and forwards them to the agent for a second pass on requirements and risks.
3. Fit is checked against your own material. Your capability statement, past projects and certifications sit in the agent's knowledge base, so the score quotes your words, not the model's guesses.
4. Past awards come from the open data, through data.gov.sg's API or Olano's open-source Singapore MCP server.
5. The brief goes where your team works, on WhatsApp or by email, best fits first, in the template above.
6. A person decides. Bid or not is a commercial judgement and a legal commitment.

Common mistakes

1. Waiting for email alerts that no longer exist. The GoBusiness alerts ended on 28 February 2025; set up the RSS feeds or another route.
2. Filtering by keyword alone. A notice can describe your work in words your filter never matches, and a keyword match says nothing about fit.
3. Pricing without looking at past awards. Who won the last similar tender, and at what value, is public.
4. Reading the notice but not every document and clarification. Mandatory requirements often sit in the attachments.
5. Setting up registration under deadline pressure. Register and settle Corppass access before the tender you want appears.
6. Scraping the portal. Use the feeds GeBIZ provides and the open award data instead.

How Olano helps

Olano Studio builds this as a standing brief: the alert route, your capability statement in the agent's knowledge base, the award lookups, the brief template and delivery to WhatsApp or email. We built tender intelligence for a marketing agency on the same read-only pattern, and the wider approach is on our AI market research agent page. The limits: the agent does not bid for you, never holds your Corppass, cannot read documents nobody has downloaded, and its fit score is a starting point for a person, not a decision. See our services and AI agents in Singapore for how an engagement runs.