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Why we’re launching Cimple Pro

To every supplier on Cimple, and everyone who serves the UK public sector,

When we started Cimple six years ago, our mission was to make bidding for and winning public sector work less complex. We believed the platforms and disconnected experiences suppliers deal with could be far better, and that technology was the way to do it.

We have never understood why finding work and bidding for it have been kept apart, across separate portals, alerts and inboxes. We believe one connected experience for suppliers, across a complex and changing market, is what creates the greatest opportunity, efficiency and growth.

We have spent the last 15 years in government procurement, on both the inside and the outside. The intent to improve things has always been there. Turning it into change that works is the hard part.

Good organisations, often small ones, still miss out on public sector work. The reason is rarely that they can't deliver. It's that finding the right opportunity, reading the tender and deciding whether to bid takes more time than they have. We know this first-hand, because it happens to us too.

We have also seen what happens when you democratise the complex experience that is procurement. In 2025, SMEs won 68% of the procurements run on Cimple. When good suppliers get a fair look, they win. What holds them back is everything before the bid: checking portals, reading long tender packs and chasing deadlines across inboxes and spreadsheets.

That is why we built Cimple Pro. It works inside the bidding you already do on Cimple and gives your team back the hours spent before a bid is written. You can see what Pro includes in [our Pro summary], with more detail on each feature in [the help centre]. These are the same features we rely on to compete for public sector work ourselves. When I saw them working in a recent demonstration, it was hard not to feel emotional. It is the start of something we have wanted to deliver for years.

Today is a step towards bringing the whole public sector market into one place. We are not there yet, and we will keep investing until we are.

What will not change. Searching opportunities, receiving invitations and submitting bids on Cimple will always be free. Pro funds the improvements we make for every supplier, and during 2027 we plan to move some of today's Pro features into the free version.

What comes next? Over the next year we are working on more market data, deeper connections into the tools you already use, help building and automating your pipeline, and a Cimple bid agent to support your team. Every new feature has to pass two tests. Does it help you spend less time searching and more time winning? And is it responsible, accessible and secure? We have set out how we use your data and AI in [our data and AI commitments].

The UK needs a stronger backbone to its economy more than ever, and that backbone is businesses that can grow. Too often, procurement holds them back, from the first opportunity to the final payment. We want public sector work to be open to every good supplier, whatever their size, and Pro is our next step towards that.

Thank you for bidding with us.

Wyndham Plumptre
Founder & CEO
Cimple

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