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title: ToolRouter — Workflow
description: A multi-tool workflow showing how to combine ToolRouter tools for a complex task.
url: https://toolrouter.com/workflows/public-procurement-watchlist
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# Public Procurement Watchlist

Build a procurement watchlist by combining live tenders, incumbent awards, company checks, and pipeline visuals.

Bid teams need more than a raw tender feed. They need to know which notices are live, who already wins comparable work, whether any supplier or partner signals deserve caution, and how the overall pipeline looks when deadlines start clustering.

This workflow turns procurement search into an operating view. Start with live opportunities, layer on award history to expose incumbent patterns, sanity-check key companies, and finish with a simple chart that makes the pipeline easy to discuss in a weekly review.

**Tools:** contract-opportunities, company-lookup, generate-chart
**Category:** finance

## Steps

### 1. Search live opportunities

Search current public-sector tenders by service area, buyer, geography, code, deadline, and value band to build the first candidate list.

- **Tool:** contract-opportunities
- **Skill:** search_opportunities
- **Input:** Keyword, classification code, buyer, geography, and deadline filters for the target offer
- **Output:** Normalized tender notices with buyers, deadlines, values, source links, and classification metadata

### 2. Check incumbent award history

Search recent awards to see who already wins similar work, which buyers repeat, and where the current notice fits existing buying patterns.

- **Tool:** contract-opportunities
- **Skill:** search_awards
- **Input:** Relevant buyers, suppliers, or classification filters derived from the tender shortlist
- **Output:** Award records with suppliers, buyers, dates, values, and source metadata for incumbent analysis

### 3. Validate target suppliers or partners

Pull company records for incumbents, consortium partners, or shortlisted suppliers so the bid team can spot obvious legal or structural risk before deeper work begins.

- **Tool:** company-lookup
- **Skill:** company_profile
- **Input:** Company identifiers or names from incumbent or partner research
- **Output:** Registered company details including status, address, officers, and key profile fields

### 4. Chart the pipeline

Turn the shortlist into a quick chart view showing deadline clusters, opportunity values, or buyer concentration so prioritization is easier to discuss.

- **Tool:** generate-chart
- **Skill:** create_chart
- **Input:** Structured shortlist data such as deadline buckets, value ranges, or buyer counts
- **Output:** A chart image that makes procurement pipeline shape easy to review with stakeholders

## Benefits

- Connects live tender search with incumbent award evidence
- Adds lightweight company diligence before the bid effort expands
- Makes pipeline prioritization easier with visual deadline or value views
- Produces a watchlist that is useful for both sales and delivery teams
