Indian MSMEs lose tenders to paperwork, not to price.

Four steps, always in this order.

Ingest. Notices, tender documents, corrigenda and published results are pulled from the Central Public Procurement Portal, the state and UT portals NIC aggregates, and GeM, then normalised into one schema so a Rajasthan works notice and a GeM bid can sit in the same search. New notices appear within minutes of publication at source. Start at the live tender list or see which portals are covered.

Read. The tender document is parsed clause by clause: eligibility thresholds, document formats, submission dates, and the money terms. This is the step a list feed cannot give you, because the feed does not carry any of it.

Check. Each criterion is tested against your company record, meaning turnover, completed works, solvency, registrations and their expiry dates. Every verdict cites the clause and page it was read from. That is the eligibility engine.

Track. Where the document states an earnest money deposit or a performance guarantee, Avsar records what the bid commits and when it is due back, which is the treasury view.

These are constraints, not roadmap gaps. Each one exists because crossing it would make the product worse or the bidder less safe.

• It never holds a digital signature certificate, and never submits a bid. Submission on a government portal happens under a certificate issued to your authorised signatory. Avsar does not ask for it, store it, or use it. The last thing the product hands you is a checklist; the upload is yours, under your own signature. See what a DSC is and who it is issued to.
• It takes no commission on wins. Pricing is a flat subscription, set out on the pricing page. If we earned a percentage of your contract value, our advice to walk away from a tender would cost us money, and you would be right to discount it. The most useful output this product produces is often the recommendation to skip one.
• It never synthesises a figure the portal did not publish. If a notice carries no estimated value, the field stays empty. A plausible invented number is worse than a blank, because you would plan around it.
• It uses published records only. The award data comes from result notices the buyer itself published, never from private documents or from other bidders.

Three sources, all public: the Central Public Procurement Portal run by NIC, the state and union territory procurement portals NIC aggregates, and GeM. Every notice on Avsar links back to the portal page that published it, so any field can be checked at source. Coverage runs across every state and union territory, and ingestion health is public on the status page.

What the public list feeds carry is thin: notice number, buying organisation, category, dates and portal. What they do not carry is the estimated value, the earnest money amount, or the eligibility criteria. Those live inside the tender document, which is why reading the document is the product rather than a feature bolted onto a search box.

Corrigenda are treated as first-class, because they move deadlines and rewrite clauses after you have already read a tender once, and they are the quiet cause of a lot of missed submissions. See what a corrigendum changes. Browse the same corpus by state, category, portal or buying organisation.

A rule that applies across the board is named with the instrument that creates it. A rule a department sets for itself is written as varying, and read off the document in front of you.

So the reservation for micro and small enterprises is attributed to the Public Procurement Policy for Micro and Small Enterprises 2012, the general procurement framework to the General Financial Rules 2017, and the definitions of micro, small and medium to the MSMED Act. Those do not change from one tender to the next.

Almost everything a bidder actually loses on does change. The earnest money percentage, the turnover multiple, what counts as similar work, the bid validity period and the registration class required are all set by the buying department. The only authority for them is the tender document. Avsar will not tell you a turnover requirement is normally some multiple of the estimated value; it tells you what this document says, and cites the clause.

The guides follow the same rule: eligibility criteria, MSME benefits, the 25 per cent procurement policy.

Search is free and stays free. Every notice, every portal, no card and no account needed: start at the tender list.

The written material is free as well. There are 52 guides covering eligibility, earnest money, GeM, documents, pricing and payment disputes, indexed at the blog, and 8 calculators that do the arithmetic a bid needs, including the EMD calculator and the bid capacity calculator. All of them are open to anyone at tools.

A subscription covers the work that needs your company record in it: eligibility verdicts checked clause by clause against your own turnover, completed works and certificates; alerts filtered to what you qualify for rather than everything in your category; award intelligence on who has been winning your kind of work and at what price; and a ledger of earnest money and guarantees outstanding.

It is a flat fee, with no commission on wins and no per-tender charge, so the bill does not rise because you had a good year. Details on pricing and FAQ.