AI in the Service of Tender Monitoring:

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How is artificial intelligence revolutionizing the monitoring and analysis of public procurement and renewable energy markets?

In a constantly evolving market, identifying the best opportunities is a major challenge for renewable energy companies, as well as for any organization looking to respond to tenders or monitor public procurement in France. The complexity of monitoring processes and the growing volume of information to process make this task both time-consuming and strategic. This is where AI comes in, offering innovative solutions to optimize data search and analysis.

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1. Current Challenges in Tender Monitoring

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1.1. A Vast Amount of Information to Track

Organizations must monitor various sources to stay informed about public tenders:

BOAMP, legal announcement journals, and the Official Journal of the European Union (Ted Europe) for consultations of €90,000 or more.
Buyer profile platforms or legal announcement journals for consultations between €40,000 and €90,000. Examples include:
- PLACE platform for government services.
- Regional platforms such as MEGALIS for the Brittany region or Maximilien for Île-de-France.
- Major metropolitan platforms like GrandLyon.
- Sector-specific platforms such as Batiproduits for construction or Resah for healthcare.
Local government websites for monitoring calls for expressions of interest.
Tender search platforms.
Monitoring on social media.
Subscriptions to public information bulletins.
Creating alerts (e.g., Google Alerts).
Participating in trade shows.

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1.2. The Constraints and Limitations of Tender Monitoring

Tracking multiple sources requires considerable efforts:
- There are thousands of different buyer profiles to monitor.
- More than 470 legal announcement journals need to be covered.‍
- 36,000 municipal websites in France could publish a call for expressions of interest.

A large volume of data to analyze, making it difficult to identify relevant opportunities that match a company’s criteria (sector, geographic area, technical and financial capabilities).
The need for fast response times to detect tenders or calls for expressions of interest as soon as they are published and prepare complete bid documents on time.
Capturing additional information (authorizations, approvals, etc.): Tenders, calls for expressions of interest, or calls for projects often require validation of various preliminary and ongoing steps (municipal decrees, public domain occupation permits, stakeholder consultation meetings, compliance monitoring by DREAL and MRAE, etc.). These documents and authorizations are often prerequisites for launching a project and must be considered during the tender monitoring process to prevent delays or roadblocks.

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2. How AI Optimizes Tender Search and Analysis

Integrating AI into tender monitoring and analysis processes helps automate and enhance several key aspects:

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2.1. Automated Document Analysis

Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms can automatically extract essential information from tender documents (type of service, CPV codes, amounts, deadlines, power levels, contacts, etc.). This allows users to set alerts based on specific criteria.

For example: "Photovoltaic tender > 1 MW on the ground, including maintenance service."

This significantly reduces the number of irrelevant tenders received, making the search process much more efficient.

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2.2. Identifying the Most Relevant Opportunities

AI can highlight the most relevant opportunities based on multiple criteria (type of notice, geographic area, buyer, power level, type of service, etc.).

By using vector databases, AI can model millions of tenders in multi-dimensional vector spaces and suggest the most relevant opportunities based on user queries.

Additionally, foundation models (such as Mistral, Gemini, etc.) trained on relevant tender data can identify key elements within unstructured and heterogeneous datasets.

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2.3. Analyzing Weak Business Signals

AI can detect weak signals not only in tenders but also in various related data sources (deliberations, minutes, MRAe and DREAL notices, decrees, building permits, public inquiries, administrative acts, regional plans, etc.). This allows for precise identification of projects based on criteria such as power level, voltage, surface area, and more.

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3. Benefits for Companies in the Public Sector and Renewable Energy

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Adopting AI in tender monitoring and analysis offers several advantages:

Time and Efficiency Gains: Reducing the time spent searching for and analyzing opportunities.
Improved Decision-Making: Access to more relevant and actionable information, as it is much better structured.
Optimization of Commercial Strategy: Anticipating trends and better resource allocation.
Monitoring Ongoing Authorizations: Anticipating the process before and during the execution of a tender.
Market Expansion: Easier access to international opportunities.

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4. The Solution to Integrate AI into Your Monitoring?

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AI is becoming an essential tool for optimizing tender monitoring and analysis in the public sector and renewable energy markets. Companies adopting these technologies gain a significant competitive advantage by reducing their workload while improving decision-making.
Deepbloo uses advanced language models (LLM) to enrich, analyze, and classify its public procurement database. We have been integrated into the Google for Startups Cloud program and continue to advance AI in collaboration with the Institute of Data Sciences of Montpellier (ISDM), the Bordeaux Laboratory for Research in Computer Science (LaBRI), and the University of Bordeaux. We are also labeled by the DERBI and Minalogic competitiveness clusters.
Our expertise in the field gives us the honor of presenting our advances on these topics at the annual Dataquitaine conference on AI, Operational Research, and Data Science.

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