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What an economy buys tells you what it depends on.

Every country counts what it imports. Every public body publishes what it buys. Read side by side, the two records show what really matters to an economy: the goods it cannot do without, the ones it could make itself, and the work its own public money pays for. BuzzBaboon reads both, joins them and counts them, for the firms, ministers and agencies who can act on what they show.

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Our mission

Put the public record in perspective.

Show, product by product and contract by contract, what an economy imports at scale, what its public bodies spend on, what it already makes well, and which firms could close the gap. Every figure joined, counted, dated and traced to its source.

Our vision

Every economy can see what it depends on.

A minister knows which imports the country is best placed to make, and which of its own public bodies are buying them from abroad. A ten-person firm knows what its council will buy next year as well as the incumbent does. Decisions about public money start from the record, not from the loudest voice.

What you will have

Three ways in. The same record underneath.

Whether you browse for ten minutes, order one report or follow your sectors every month, this is what happens, and this is what you will have at your fingertips.

Browse

The record, open to anyone.

Free, no account, from the first click

  1. Search every UK public tender, early engagement notice and award, by sector, region and deadline.
  2. Open any public buyer and see what it buys, what is open now and what ends in the next twelve months.
  3. Pick a country and see the imports it is best placed to make, the trade lanes, and who buys each product in public.
  4. Follow a search or a buyer with your email, and it is saved for you.
At your fingertips

What sat across dozens of portals, in one place, dated, every line linked to the publisher's own notice.

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Order a report

The whole record for one question.

A document, delivered by email

  1. Choose the report and give your criteria: a country, a product line, a sector, the regions you serve.
  2. Within two working days the scope comes back confirmed, with a payment link or a quote.
  3. Within five working days of payment, a PDF and a Word file arrive, every figure re-derived by script and read by a person.
  4. Every number traces to its source, so it can be checked before it is quoted.
At your fingertips

A document you can put in front of a board, a minister, a bank or a trade mission, and defend line by line.

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Subscribe

The re-tender calendar for your work.

When plans open, from the waiting list

  1. Choose your sectors and the regions you serve.
  2. The Pipeline Brief arrives by email: open tenders, early engagement, contracts ending, and the incumbent on each, linked to its award notice.
  3. Twelve months of re-tenders sit on one calendar, so the bid is planned, not rushed.
  4. A note reaches you when a notice in your sectors changes stage or a deadline nears.
At your fingertips

You know which contracts end before the tender is published, who holds them, and which buyers keep coming back.

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What changes is simple. You stop finding out late.

Why we do it

The record is public. The perspective is not.

Headlines measure an economy in growth, inflation and debt. What it depends on sits in the line items.

Which medicines it buys packaged from abroad, which steel it imports for the structures it builds, which of its own councils keep buying the same thing year after year. The incumbent on a contract knows when it ends; everyone else finds out when the tender is published. The facts that would change both are already public: the award notice, the contract end date, the buyer. They sit across dozens of portals, five code schemes and two record systems that never meet, trade statistics on one side and procurement on the other. Reading them is a job nobody is paid to do, so the firms with bid teams win, and the firms without them never knew they could have bid.

A baboon troop posts a lookout.

One animal watches the horizon while the troop gets on with its day, and calls when something moves. That is the job: watch the whole record, every working day, and say what moved for you. The Baboon is the subject of every finding on this site because the finding is the Baboon's work, checked by a person before it reaches you.

Our values

Six rules the site keeps, in code.

Each one is checked every time the site is built. A page that breaks one does not ship.

  1. 01

    The record, not a rumour

    Every figure on BuzzBaboon traces to a public source, and every link is the publisher's own. If a number cannot be traced, it is not printed.

  2. 02

    Facts apart from interpretation

    What a notice says is quoted. What it might mean is marked as interpretation and kept separate, so the reader can disagree with us without doubting the record.

  3. 03

    Free where it is public

    What a government publishes stays free here: the search, the buyer pages, the import gaps, the trade lanes. We charge for the joining and the judgement, never for access to public information.

  4. 04

    Companies, never people

    Public bodies are named as buyers from their own notices. No person's name is collected, stored or printed, and no supplier is named on a public page.

  5. 05

    Fresh or flagged

    A tender past its deadline is never shown as open, and a development past its window is never marked Act now. Every page says when the record was read.

  6. 06

    Say what we cannot do

    Where a country does not publish its awards, or a portal offers no data, the page says so in as many words. A gap stated honestly is worth more than a total that looks complete.

Why BuzzBaboon exists

Because the record is public and almost nobody can read it.

Every year governments publish what they import and what their public bodies buy. It is the clearest account there is of what an economy depends on, and it sits in dozens of portals, five code systems and two records that never meet. BuzzBaboon exists to read it every working day, join it, count it, and show it plainly, so that the people who can act on it see it while there is still time to act.

It reads Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, the award records of 33 other countries and the world trade file, and it says on every page what it does not read yet.

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