Still Searching for an "Altura Alternative"?

You're here because you're doing your due diligence. Evaluating platforms, pressure-testing options, trying to figure out what will actually move the needle for your team. That's exactly the kind of thinking that wins tenders.

So let's be direct: if you're looking for the best bid management software available, you've likely already found it.

Here's why thousands of bid managers, proposal leads, and commercial directors at companies like Facilicom, BAM, EY, Signify, and NorthC aren't searching for alternatives to Altura. They've stopped searching altogether.

Why Bid Teams Start Looking in the First Place

Most teams exploring their options arrive at the same point: frustrated. Not with any one tool, but with a process that was never built for the complexity of modern tendering.

They're dealing with tender documents that eat entire days. Hundreds of pages of PDFs, attachments, clarification notes, and revisions, all still reviewed by hand. By the time the analysis is done, the time for strategy is gone.

Stakeholder input goes out of sync. Subject matter experts respond over email, Teams, phone calls, and ad hoc meetings. Nobody has the full picture. Version control becomes a job in itself.

Requirements shift mid-bid. One clarification document changes five dependencies. In a spreadsheet, that's an afternoon's work to reconcile. In a complex bid, that's a risk you can't afford.

And there's no time left for the actual strategy. The work that wins tenders, understanding the buyer, sharpening the proposition, pricing intelligently, gets squeezed out by admin.

If any of that sounds familiar, the question isn't which software to try next. The question is: are you looking for another tool, or are you looking for the right platform?

What the Right Bid Management Platform Actually Looks Like

There's no shortage of tools that touch parts of the bid process. Some are strong at writing assistance. Some help you find tenders. Some offer a content library or a project timeline view.

But bid teams running complex, multi-stakeholder tenders don't need another point solution bolted onto an already busy stack. They need one place where the entire bid lives, from the first signal that a tender is coming to the final submission and post-bid review.

That's a fundamentally different kind of product. And it's what Altura was built to be.

Altura is an end-to-end bid management platform. Not a writing tool with project features added on. Not a tender discovery feed with a document viewer attached. A single, AI-powered workspace that covers every stage of the bid lifecycle, structured around how bid teams actually work.

Results That Speak for Themselves

Altura customers don't talk about the software. They talk about what changed.

"I've compared all bid management platforms and Altura is the only one that covers every step in the bid process. That's why I chose Altura."

- Lise Stelloo, Sr. Bid Manager, EPSA

"Our processes used to be scattered across multiple documents. Now, Altura centralizes everything, from pre-tender to evaluation. This not only provides structure but, above all, a lot of ease."

- Kasper van Donkersgoed, Senior Proposal Manager, Bidfood

"Altura offers a fully digitalized bid management process. We no longer work with separate Excel sheets, but have everything in one place."

- Denise Wit, Director Public, Young Capital

In numbers:

• 50% increase in win rate (GMB)
• 95% time saved on document analysis (Daan)
• 3x faster tender processing (Heyday)
• 17 hours saved per month on scanning past proposals (Aethon)

Trusted by bid and proposal teams at Facilicom, Signify, Spacewell, Athlon, Normec, BAM, Bidfood, EY, NorthC, Headfirst, Unica, and 50+ more.