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Websites for contractors that get you onto the tender list

Before a main contractor invites you to price, someone checks your website. They're looking for one thing — what you're accredited to, at what tier, and whether it's still in date. Most contractors' sites make that the hardest thing to find.

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Enquire about a projectDomestic or commercialPackage or job typeValue bandProgramme datesDrawings or ITT
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The problem

Your website is a prequalification document. It just isn't written like one.

A QS deciding whether to add you to a tender list will spend ninety seconds on your site. They aren't reading about your values. They're checking whether you clear the gate — and if they can't tell in ninety seconds, they move to the next firm.

What happens now
  • Accreditation logos in the footer with no tier and no date. A CHAS badge doesn't say whether it's Standard, Advanced or Elite — and those satisfy different tenders. A QS assumes the lowest, or assumes it's lapsed.
  • "PAS 91 accredited" still on the site. BSI withdrew PAS 91 in April 2023. The Common Assessment Standard replaced it, and public-sector procurement moved to CAS under PPN 03/24.
  • One contact form for everything. A homeowner wanting a loft conversion and a main contractor sending a tender invitation land in the same inbox, in the same format, with the same urgency.
  • No project list a buyer can check. Value, sector, duration, and who the client was. Without it there's nothing to assess you on but the photographs.
What happens instead
  • Accreditations shown with the tier and the renewal date. "CHAS Elite, renewed March 2026" answers the question. A logo doesn't.
  • Current scheme names, and a note when a standard changes so the site doesn't quietly go stale.
  • Two routes on the enquiry — domestic and commercial — that ask different questions and go to different places.
  • A project list with the facts a buyer prequalifies on: value band, sector, duration, and the role you held.

How it plays out

A Tuesday, 4pm

A tender invitation and a kitchen extension, arriving twenty minutes apart, handled completely differently.

QS at a main contractor, checking three subcontractors before issuing an ITT16:02
Sees CHAS Elite, renewed March 2026, and £10m public liability — with datesDoesn't need to email and ask16:03
Commercial enquiry: package type, value band, programme dates, and the ITT attached16:04
Routed to the estimator, not the general inbox
Homeowner, same site, different route. Extension, rough budget, and a postcode.16:22
Routed to the office. Different form, different questions
Estimator opens a tender with the drawings already attached. Office rings the homeowner.Wed 08:40

What your enquiry form captures

Two enquiries, two forms

The first question is which kind of enquiry this is, because everything after it differs. One general contact form serves neither well.

Domestic or commercial
The only question both routes share. It decides the fields that follow and who the enquiry reaches.
Package or job type
Groundworks, roofing, M&E, fit-out — or extension, loft, renovation. Tells you immediately whether it's work you do.
Value band
A range, not an exact figure. Enough to know whether it's worth pricing, without asking anyone to commit to a number.
Programme dates
Commercial only. Start on site and completion. Tells you whether it clashes with what you've already committed to.
Drawings or ITT
File upload. A tender enquiry without documents is a phone call you have to make before you can do anything.
Postcode
Domestic only, checked against your working radius before it submits.

The pages

What a contractor's site actually needs

Eight pages. Two of them exist for the buyer, not the homeowner.

01Home
What you build, where, and at what scale. Both audiences in the first screen.
02Sectors and services
New build, refurbishment, fit-out, civils — each its own page. Different buyers search different words.
03Accreditations
For the buyer. Scheme, tier, certificate number, renewal date. Insurance with the cover level. The page that gets you through the gate.
04Projects
For the buyer. Value band, sector, duration, your role. Photographs are the least useful part of a project page.
05Health and safety
Your policy, your accident record if it's good, and who holds the SMSTS. Asked for on every PQQ.
06The team
Who runs a site, what they hold, how long they've been with you. Continuity is what a main contractor is buying.
07Areas covered
Your genuine working radius, not an aspirational one. Being asked to price something four counties away wastes both sides' time.
08Contact
The two routes above, and a number that reaches someone during site hours.

Connects to

What contractors usually wire in

Chosen for this work, not a list of everything we can connect.

Companies House APIpostcodes.ioOrdnance Survey PlacesEnvironment AgencyGoogle MapsCheckatradeGoCardlessMonday.comAirtableGoogle Business Profile

Pricing

Published, so you don't have to ask

Studio

A strong, well-built site without bespoke design work.

£1,295one-off

then £69 per month

  • Up to 8 pages
  • Enquiry form designed around your business
  • Google Business Profile setup
  • One revision round
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Signature

Where the website is a working part of how the job comes in.

£2,500one-off

then £89 per month

  • Up to 12 pages, including area pages
  • The integrations above, wired and tested
  • Automated acknowledgement on every enquiry
  • Migration with search positions kept

Three standard integrations are included. See what counts as one.

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Questions

What contractors ask us

Can you get us CHAS or Constructionline?

No — that's an assessment you go through with the scheme, and anyone offering to shortcut it is selling something you shouldn't buy. What we do is make what you already hold easy for a buyer to verify: scheme, tier, certificate number and renewal date, on a page they can find in one click.

Our site says PAS 91. Is that a problem?

It's out of date. BSI withdrew PAS 91 in April 2023 and the Common Assessment Standard replaced it — public-sector procurement moved to CAS under PPN 03/24. Some tenders still use the old wording, so it's not that you've done anything wrong. But a QS who knows the schemes will read it as a site nobody has looked at in three years, and that's the impression you least want on the page they're prequalifying you from.

Why show renewal dates? Isn't that a hostage to fortune?

It's the opposite. A badge with no date makes a buyer assume the worst, because the sites that hide the date are usually the ones whose accreditation lapsed. A date that's current answers the question outright. We build in a reminder before each one expires so it doesn't catch you out.

We mostly do domestic. Do we need the commercial side?

Only if you want commercial work, now or later. The split costs nothing to build in and it's much harder to retrofit once the site is live and ranking. If you're purely domestic we'll leave it out and say so at Discovery.

Can people upload drawings?

Yes, on the commercial route. A tender enquiry without documents is a phone call you have to make before you can start, and that phone call is usually a day later than it needed to be.

How long does it take?

Three phases — Discovery, Build, Launch. Gathering the project information is usually the slow part, because it lives in someone's head or a folder nobody has opened since handover. We'll tell you at Discovery what we need and you'll know immediately if anything slips.

Do we own it?

Yes. The domain is registered in your company's name, not ours, and transfers free on request. If you leave, the site leaves with you.

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