CrowMark vs CleanTender

CrowMark is a sector-agnostic UK bid and tender management suite priced from £49 per month. CleanTender is a soft facilities-management specialist, with a free tier and Pro at £99 per month, tuned for cleaning, security, grounds, waste and catering bids. Both publish their pricing, so this is not a transparency contest. It is a question of scope and depth, and this page sets out both honestly with dated sources.

At a glance

What is CleanTender?

CleanTender is a UK bid tool built specifically for soft facilities management: cleaning, security, grounds, waste and catering. It curates a feed of soft-FM tenders from official UK public-sector sources, and its qualification scan reads a contract pack and scores your stored profile against it from 0 to 100 in under 30 seconds. On its Pro plan it drafts Selection Questionnaire responses in the standard sections, including Company Overview, Relevant Experience, Quality Assurance, Staff Training, COSHH Management and a Social Value and TOMs section, with the sector vocabulary these bids expect, such as BICSc, SIA ACS, TUPE and NHS national specifications.

That specialisation is a real advantage, and it is one CrowMark does not try to match. If cleaning or security is all you bid for, CleanTender's vocabulary and its fast fit scan are built around exactly your work, and its pricing is public: a free tier to browse the contract directory, and Pro at £99 per month or £990 per year, which unlocks the qualification scan, unlimited drafts, the Compliance Vault and email alerts. CleanTender positions itself for soft-FM SMEs doing roughly 4 to 12 bids a year.

What is CrowMark?

CrowMark is CrowAgent's UK bid and tender management suite, currently in beta and in daily use on real bids. Unlike a sector specialist, it is sector-agnostic: it tracks Contracts Finder and Find a Tender across any category, refreshed every morning at 06:00. It drafts answers grounded in the supplier's own submitted bids, and its defining rule is figure-grounding, so before a draft is shown, every £ and % is checked against a set of allowed figures computed from your own data, and if a number is not in that set the draft is rejected. Every AI-assisted draft carries a PPN 017 AI-use disclosure and waits for a person to approve it.

CrowMark calculates PPN 002 social value deterministically in code against the 10% minimum weighting rather than only drafting it as a questionnaire section, and after award it tracks each commitment to a delivery percentage with a RAG status, captures evidence, issues monthly reports and checks the Procurement Act 2023 KPI duties in sections 52 and 71. Its bid-fit and coverage marking, by contrast, is still in development and not in the released product, so on the fit-scan row above CleanTender is genuinely ahead today.

CrowMark publishes its pricing. Starter is £49 per month for 3 users, Pro is £149 per month for 10 users with post-award delivery tracking, and Portfolio is contact sales. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial.

Pricing compared

Both tools publish their prices, so you can compare directly. CleanTender is free to browse and £99 per month on Pro. CrowMark is £49 per month on Starter and £149 per month on Pro. For a soft-FM supplier, CleanTender Pro at £99 sits between CrowMark's two paid tiers, and the deciding factor is scope rather than price: CleanTender covers soft FM deeply, CrowMark covers every sector plus deterministic social value and post-award delivery.

Which should you choose?

Where CrowMark loses honestly

For a pure soft-FM contractor, CleanTender is the more specialised tool. Its vocabulary is tuned to cleaning and security bids, its curated feed filters out the noise of other sectors, and its qualification scan gives a fast bid or no-bid signal, an area where CrowMark's own fit marking is not yet released. CrowMark's advantage is breadth and depth on the compliance side: every sector, a hard figure-grounding gate, deterministic PPN 002 maths and post-award delivery evidence. If you only ever bid for cleaning contracts, that breadth is not worth much to you, and CleanTender may simply be the better fit. A soft-FM supplier who also bids in other categories could reasonably run both.

Frequently asked questions

Is CrowMark or CleanTender cheaper?

Both publish prices. CleanTender has a free tier and a Pro plan at £99 per month or £990 per year. CrowMark Starter is £49 per month and Pro is £149 per month. For a soft-FM-only supplier, CleanTender Pro at £99 sits between CrowMark's two paid tiers.

What sectors does CleanTender cover?

CleanTender is a soft facilities-management specialist covering cleaning, security, grounds, waste and catering. CrowMark is sector-agnostic and works across any UK public-sector tender on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender.

Does CleanTender handle social value?

Yes. CleanTender drafts a Social Value and TOMs section as part of its Selection Questionnaire responses. CrowMark calculates PPN 002 social value deterministically in code against the 10% minimum weighting, and the AI never computes the total.

Which finds more tenders?

CleanTender curates a soft-FM feed from official UK public-sector sources, which is focused but narrow. CrowMark pulls Contracts Finder and Find a Tender across all sectors and refreshes the feed every morning at 06:00.

Does CleanTender have a qualification score?

Yes, and it is a genuine strength: CleanTender reads a contract pack and scores your stored profile against it from 0 to 100 in under 30 seconds. CrowMark's own bid-fit and coverage marking is in development and is not in the released product yet.

Which handles post-award delivery?

CrowMark tracks each commitment to a delivery percentage with a RAG status, captures evidence, issues monthly social-value reports and checks the Procurement Act 2023 KPI duties in sections 52 and 71. CleanTender does not state a post-award delivery feature.

I run a cleaning company, which should I use?

If soft FM is all you bid for, CleanTender's sector vocabulary, including BICSc, SIA ACS, COSHH, TUPE and NHS national specifications, is tuned for you and its qualification scan is fast. CrowMark is the better fit if you bid across sectors or need deterministic PPN 002 maths and post-award delivery evidence.

Can I use both CrowMark and CleanTender?

Yes. A soft-FM contractor could use CleanTender for cleaning and security bids and CrowMark for tenders in other sectors, for PPN 002 scoring and for post-award delivery evidence.

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