RFP.ai vs Smart Tenders

RFP.ai drafts answers to RFPs, due diligence questionnaires, and vendor assessments using approved source material. It extracts questions, produces cited answers with confidence scores, and sends uncertain responses to subject matter experts. Teams can track coverage, export responses, and fill detected answer fields in the source document. It accepts PDF, Word, Excel, and image files, including scanned documents processed with OCR. Exports include Word, PDF, Excel, CSV, and PowerPoint. Connections include Slack, Microsoft Teams, API access, Claude Desktop through MCP, and a Chrome extension for portals such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Google Forms, and Microsoft Forms. It is available on the web, as an extension, and through an API. The Starter plan is €49 a month, or €40.83/mo billed annually; the Single RFP Pack is 39.00 EUR as a one-time payment. A 7-day trial is available, but there is no free plan. RFP.ai says customer content is not used to train AI models and core application storage is primarily hosted in the EU. It retains data for 30 days after account cancellation for export, and says it is not currently independently certified, including for ISO 27001.

Smart Tenders is a web workspace for discovering tender opportunities and managing bids from intake through export. Its workflow covers bid decisions, drafting, review and final approval, with tools for document management, compliance tracking, reusable content and approval workflows. Teams can assign work, track blockers, set answer ownership and collect reviewer evidence before locking a final version. The workspace handles protected PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV and ZIP workflows and exports Word, PDF, ZIP and compliance handoff files. It accepts direct notice links from four UK procurement sources, but does not fetch buyer portals, credentials, attachments or contact details. The free workspace requires no card and starts with 50 workspace credits. Monthly founding plans cost £49 a month for Starter, £79 a month for Supplier Workspace and £149 a month for Consultancy / Team. Stripe hosts payment details while Smart Tenders stores entitlement metadata. AI output is for review only and cannot claim compliance or guaranteed wins. Users should review cancellation and refund boundaries before checkout.