A BD workflow, start to finish
A concrete weekly pass for a business development team selling climate services into public and corporate buyers. Timings are honest estimates from real use, not best cases. The persona summary sits at Raise Lens for business development teams; this page is the mechanics.
Setup, once (20 minutes)
Build one saved search per business line. A search is a filter set: sectors, countries, record types, value band, delivery mode. Say your firm does adaptation consulting in Northern Europe and off-grid energy delivery in East Africa; that is two searches, two URLs, each shareable with the relevant lead.
Consultancy to support local climate action planning in municipalities in Cabo Verde (3 lots)
••••• organisation· CV
This tender procures consultancy services to develop local climate action plans across multiple municipalities in Cabo Verde, structured as 3 separate lots. Bidders should be consulting firms or climate-planning specialists with experience in municipal-level climate strategy, adaptation planning, and stakeholder engagement in island and developing contexts.
Technical assistance service for climate vulnerability assessment of critical health and water infrastructure against flood risk
••••• Foundation· ES
This tender procures technical assistance to conduct a climate vulnerability diagnosis of critical health and water and sanitation infrastructure against flood risk. Bidders should have expertise in climate-risk assessment, infrastructure resilience, and water and health sector knowledge.
Technical assistance for developing the first phase of a territorial climate-risk diagnostic in a Spanish province
••••• organisation· ES
Technical assistance to develop the first phase of a territorial climate-risk diagnostic for a Spanish region. Bidders should have expertise in climate-risk assessment, territorial analysis, and climate-adaptation planning.
International Development Finance Institution Low-Carbon Infrastructure & AI/Data Center Investment Initiative
An international development finance institution is highlighting two emerging infrastructure investment areas: low-carbon manufacturing and job creation in Thailand, plus sustainable AI/data center expansion in emerging markets. This signals the institution's active focus on financing these sectors and potential procurement/partnership opportunities for climate-aligned infrastructure providers.
Two development banks expand sustainability-linked loan for African agriculture to $600M
Two development finance institutions expanded their sustainability-linked loan facility for an East African agricultural company to USD 600 million with new investor backing. This signals capital mobilization for climate-aligned agricultural development in Africa, with potential for suppliers and partners in sustainable farming, agri-tech, and supply-chain solutions.
Monday: tender triage (15 minutes per search)
Open the saved search, sort newest first. For each new record, the card gives you type, sector, country, deadline, value band and the two-sentence summary. Dismiss the misses; the button hides them from your view permanently. Save the fits. A typical week for a well-tuned search is 5 to 20 new records, of which 1 to 3 survive triage.
Duplicates were already collapsed before you arrived: one notice, one card, however many portals republished it. That alone is a meaningful fraction of the time this workflow saves.
Also Monday: signal pass (10 minutes)
Switch to the signal stream with the same sector and country filters. You are looking for three signal types: telegraphed RFPs, budget announcements, supplier registrations. These precede formal notices by months. A budget announcement for coastal resilience in a country you deliver in is a prospecting call this week, not a tender response next year.
This is the half of the workflow no procurement portal offers, and it is where the earliness advantage compounds. See it live before judging: the stream is browsable on Free with type filters on Pro.
Thursday: deadline check (5 minutes)
Your dashboard holds saved records with fresh-activity flags. The weekly digest email covers the same ground if the team prefers inbox to interface.
What this replaces
The manual version is a rotation across portals per country, per multilateral bank, per framework programme, with your own deduplication and no signal layer. Teams tell us that rotation runs 3 to 6 hours weekly and still misses republications. This workflow is about 45 minutes on the same ground, plus the pre-procurement layer the rotation never had. Whether the feed underneath is fresh enough to trust: check the timestamps yourself at Last refreshed.