Tender Source Scraping — Progress Report

104h

Engineering effort

Active work days

Work streams

Crawlers maintained

This report summarises engineering progress on the Tender Source Scraping platform through June 2026. The month focused on hardening the scraping and parsing pipeline, improving the tender qualification & scoring engine, reducing database response times, and rebuilding the dashboard interface. Below is a breakdown of the work delivered and the effort invested across each stream.

Highlights this month

✓Crawler & parser reliability — the largest single effort of the month. Existing crawlers and parsers were debugged and stabilised, and additional crawlers were built out to widen source coverage.
✓Smarter tender qualification — the qualification and scoring engine was optimised and new scoring rules were added, improving the relevance and ranking of matched tenders.
✓Faster platform — database queries were re-worked to resolve slow response times, making the dashboard noticeably more responsive.
✓Rebuilt dashboard & refreshed UI/UX — the dashboard was rebuilt and the interface reworked for a cleaner, more usable experience.
✓Document handling R&D — research into detail-document parsing and associated processing cost, plus cloud storage set up for retrieving tender documents (DOCX).

Work streams & effort

Crawler & parser fixes18h 37m

Debugging and stabilising existing crawlers and parsers.

Qualification & scoring optimisation12h 45m

Tuning the engine that qualifies and ranks incoming tenders.

Detail-document parsing R&D11h 18m

Research on parsing detail documents and associated processing cost.

UI/UX refresh10h 38m

Reworking the interface for a cleaner, more intuitive experience.

Codebase modernisation10h 18m

Structural improvements to the platform codebase.

New scoring rules9h 44m

Adding rules to improve tender match relevance.

Database performance9h 34m

Resolving slow queries and improving response times.

Dashboard rebuild7h 6m

Rebuilding the reporting dashboard.

Bug fixes5h 31m

Resolving minor issues across the platform.

Cloud storage for documents4h 15m

Setting up cloud storage for tender DOCX files.

Additional crawlers3h 28m

Building out remaining source crawlers.

Testing0h 46m

Verification of delivered changes.

Status & next steps

DeliveredCrawler/parser stabilisation, new scoring rules, database performance improvements, and cloud document storage.
In progressDashboard rebuild and UI/UX refresh — foundation laid in June, continuing into July.
In progressDetail-document parsing — moving from R&D into implementation as cost/approach is finalised.
PlannedComplete the remaining source crawlers to widen tender coverage.