The Company Monitor

The most comprehensive global public procurement contracts and awarded companies interactive database platform

Web Research and Data Mining Services

Tailor-made data scraping and large scale web mining tools specialized in extracting, collecting, and processing data from any open source on the web

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide accurate and relevant data tailored to the needs of our clients. We strive to accelerate scalability of public sources coverage while also automating data aggregation to reach an ever evolving level of data analytics and insights.

Our History

BizPortal Limited was founded in 2013 as a web-based EU grants and public procurement information portal in Sofia, Bulgaria: www.bizportal.bg. The platform is now the largest business opportunities daily notification platform in the country, providing also information on trade fairs and exhibitions in addition to worldwide development tenders and grants. Show More
Bizportal Ltd. has later developed as a global data vending business, currently operating as a data contributor for an array of renowned international clients, including leading private company database providers, credit rating agencies and SaaS companies throughout Europe and the United States. We have been slowly moving from big-scale data harvesting to providing premium data processing and analytics products in the area of company and public projects database solutions.

Our Values

In business flexibility is key. We therefore work in close collaboration with our clients and strive to understand their long-term business needs in depth. We also value transparency and predictability and continuously provide our partners with updates and complete access to any relevant project and staff designated resources.

Our Team

Our team combines equally strong software development and data analytics capacities. We believe that cutting-edge innovation is only grown upon experience and excellent customer support.

Funding

We are proud to announce that in May 2020 BizPortal finalized its first official funding round from Bulgarian VC investors.

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The Company Monitor

Big Government meets Big Data!

The Company Monitor is a unique database with awarded global public projects, such as government procurement tenders and grants. It also contains awarded companies information since 2010.

What is an awarded tender?

Public procurement is a term used to describe the purchasing of works, supplies and services on behalf of a public authority, such as a government agency, local (municipal) bodies, and public institutions such as schools or hospitals. After its initial publication, each public tender is open for application by other companies for a certain time period. After the deadline, the applicants’ offers are evaluated and the tender is awarded to one or more companies. With nearly 20% of GDP worldwide accounting for government spending, public procurement is a substantial part of the global economy.

Data Applications

Awarded tenders database could be used for various purposes.
Some of our existing clients utilize the following data applications:

Credit Rating – analysis of awarded tenders contributes to assessing private companies risk alert monitoring. In addition it contributes to predicting cash flow, backlog orders and forecasting future earnings and projects pipeline.

Macroeconomic and Public Spending Analysis – The Company Monitor’s database is the perfect tool for monitoring public spending transparency in any country or region helpful for both - market and policy impact analysis. It also provides insights into industry sectors and the means to conduct in depth analysis and more accurate industry and business opportunities forecasting.

Other Applications – Other applications of the data include analysis of the competition, marketing and sales leads as well as partnership opportunities.

The BizPortal.co team believes could be used as multi-purpose monitoring and analytic tool. Including but not limited to:

Company Activities Monitoring

  • Competition intelligence for government suppliers
  • Insights into companies' cash flow and work pipeline
  • Private equity benchmarking for active government suppliers worldwide

B2B Marketing Purposes

  • Project partnership opportunities
  • Specific B2B contact information
  • Subcontracting opportunities for small and medium enterprises

Macroeconomic Trends and Market Sizing

  • Specific industry monitoring on national and local basis
  • Macroeconomic trends analysis related to public market developments
  • Cross-section market sizing

Institutional Performance Monitoring

  • Easy to grasp public buyers activities historical and real time tracking
  • Dynamic analysis of the relationship between institutions and vendors
  • Local and sectoral level breakdown of public purchasing

Public Expenditure Watchdog

  • Multi-country public spending historical and ongoing monitoring
  • Suspicious activity alerts
  • Granular analysis of links between public bodies and corporations

Risk Rating Analysis

  • Companies’ credit rating
  • Supplier risk assessment and vendor shortlisting
  • Project/tender risk alert

The Company Monitor Geographical Coverage

  • Europe (EU – 28, Switzerland, Norway)
  • Russia and Ukraine
  • North America (USA, Canada, Mexico)
  • Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay)
  • Australia and New Zealand
  • Asia (India)

Data Breakdown

Tender information in The Company Monitor is very detailed and contains the following data points:

  • Industry classification
  • Title
  • Description
  • Country
  • Location of works or place of delivery
  • Value of tender
  • Other

Data Delivery Options

Historical data – includes awarded tenders data between 2010 and 2016 (earlier years are available upon demand) Ongoing feed – we can deliver data periodically (weekly, monthly, quarterly). A typical weekly data feed consists of more than 20,000 awarded tenders. All data is formatted, organized and standardized and can be delivered in the following formats:

  • CSV
  • TXT
  • Others upon demand

You can also access the data on our web-based platform: thecompanymonitor

Web Research and Data Mining Services

Timely and powerful data collection solutions fuels business growth!

Bizportal's research and data mining services comprise of unique data scraping and data mining tools that could extract data from any open web sources.

Through our data mining and web research services we can extract reliable data from hundreds of thousands of online resources including:

  • Company websites
  • Social networking sites
  • Blogs and forums
  • Industry publications
  • Business directories
  • Open-Data portals
The Bizportal Web Crawler

Currently, our most successful web mining tool is the Bizportal Web Crawler which provides extensive array of web research services including data harvesting, web content filtering and data extraction, screen scrapping services, etc. The Bizportal Web Crawler is particularly efficient in extraction of company URLs, data and facts like e-mail ids, any other contact information, designation/position information, and pretty much any qualitative information available on the web! Thus, our tools deliver actionable data to our clients, helping them monitor business trends and customer behavior, extracting various data points or just collecting missing information.

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Keep in Touch with Us

Get in touch to request a demo of the Bizportal Web Crawler and/or order any customized web mining and data collection service!

Our Office

6 Danail Dechev str, Sofia 1407, Bulgaria

Email Address

[email protected]

Telephone

+1 540-326-2337