Company

Overview

In Tendersight, "company" means two different things. New users often open the wrong page because both labels appear in everyday language. This article explains both meanings, when each matters, and how they connect when your team's fiscal identifier matches a record in public procurement data.

Your company profile is the legal entity behind your team — VAT, address, registry numbers — that you edit under Team → Settings. It powers document auto-fill, offer headers, and AI-assisted form filling in pursuits.

A market company is any organization that appears as a participant in tender data — competitors, consortium partners, incumbents. You research market companies under Analytics → Companies; you cannot edit those records.

Tip: Use this quick check before you continue:

Team → Settings → you need to edit your organization's legal data
Analytics → Companies → you need to research a bidder or supplier
Notice → Participants → link opens a market company profile (read-only)

Important: Completing Team → Settings (company profile, legal representative, banking) is required before your first pursuit if you want generated documents to include real legal data instead of "complete" placeholders.

The two meanings — decision guide

Where	Team → Settings	Analytics → Companies
What it is	Legal entity behind your active team	Competitor or supplier in public data
Editable?	Yes	No
Primary use	Document auto-fill, offer headers, AI filler	Win history, connections, head-to-head stats
Detailed guide	Company profile	Companies directory

Caution: Team settings = yours. Companies directory = market research. Do not expect to change a competitor's VAT or address from Analytics — those records sync from official publications.

Part 1 — Your company profile (team settings)

The company profile stores who your bidding entity is on paper:

Registered legal name and headquarters address
Contact details — phone, fax, email
Trade registry, registration number, and VAT (fiscal identifier)

It lives inside Team → Settings, not as a separate top-level page. The section title is Company profile, with the subtitle: "General information regarding the legal entity that is behind this team."

Why it must be done before creating a pursuit

When you create a pursuit, Tendersight immediately prepares bid outputs that reference your organization:

Without company profile	What goes wrong
Document auto-fill	Authority form fields blank or show "complete" placeholder
AI document filler	Skips fields — warning lists missing Company profile
Generated offers	Header blocks missing legal name and tax identifiers
Home assistant	Cannot accurately read or update your organization
Team overview checklist	Configure team settings stays incomplete

"Team settings complete" means all three sections saved at least once:

Company profile
Legal representative
Banking information

See Legal representative and Banking information.

How to open company profile

Path	Steps
App sidebar	Team → Settings → Company profile section
Team management	Inner sidebar Management → Settings
Team overview checklist	Configure team settings → Open team settings
Document AI filler warning	Open team settings button
Home assistant	"Show the company profile for my team"

Key fields and downstream use

Field	Where used later
Legal name	Offer headers, generated forms, document templates
Headquarters	Address blocks on authority PDFs
VAT / fiscal identifier	Tax fields, template variables, analytics fiscal match
Trade registry / registration number	Qualification and registration forms
Phone, fax, email	Contact sections on bid documents

Part 2 — Market company (Analytics)

A market company is any organization that appears in indexed procurement data as a tender participant — winner, bidder, or consortium member. Tendersight aggregates participation history from official European sources (SEAP, TED, national portals).

How to open the directory

Path	Label
App sidebar	Analytics → Companies

From the Companies directory you can filter by keywords, country, fiscal identifier, won amount, won count, and relationship with a specific contracting authority.

Company profile tabs

Click a company name to open its profile. Inner navigation:

Tab	Article	What you use it for
Tenders	Company tenders	Participation and win history
Connections	Company connections	Consortium partners, recurring co-bidders
Statistics	Company statistics	CPV overlap, market positioning, strategic gap

When to research a market company

Scenario	What to look at
Pre-bid competitor check	Tenders tab — recent wins on similar CPV
Consortium partner discovery	Connections tab — who they bid with
CPV overlap vs your catalog	Statistics → Market positioning
Incumbent on an authority's tenders	Authority statistics → Companies tab, then open supplier profile
Head-to-head vs your team	Strategic gap when fiscal IDs align (see below)

Tip: From Notice participants, the Company column links directly into a market company profile — useful right after award when you want to see who won and their track record.

Linking both meanings — when your team matches the directory

When your team company profile fiscal identifier matches a market company record in the directory:

Team overview competitive widgets can personalize
Company statistics Strategic gap tab compares your wins vs competitors (not shown when viewing your own company page as the active team's identity)
Custom dashboard head-to-head widgets align with your legal entity

When there is no match:

Market research still works — browse any company
Personalized gap analysis and "our company" widgets may not activate
Fix by ensuring VAT in Team → Settings matches the identifier on your official registrations

Condition	Result
Team VAT = directory company fiscal ID	Personalized analytics and gap views
Team VAT missing or unmatched	Generic market research only
Multiple directory rows share similar names	Use fiscal identifier filter to disambiguate

Company on notices vs company in settings

Surface	Which "company"	Editable?
Notice → Participants	Market companies (bidders, winners)	No
Notice → Key facts (contracting authority)	Authority — different entity; see Contracting authority	No
Pursuit → Overview (authority name)	Copied from notice or typed standalone	Pursuit notes only — not market company records
Team → Settings → Company profile	Your legal entity	Yes
Analytics → Companies	Market intelligence	No

Recommended research workflow (market company)

Discover — notice participants, directory search, or authority Companies tab.
Validate — confirm fiscal identifier and country match the organization you care about.
Review tenders — recent wins, CPV patterns, contract types.
Check connections — consortium habits, preferred partners.
Read statistics — positioning vs your team's fiscal match when available.
Decide — bid/no-bid, pricing posture, partnership outreach.

Analytics informs decisions; pursuits execute them. Opening a company profile does not create a pursuit.

Permissions snapshot

Content	Typical access
Edit company profile	Team member with settings access
Browse companies directory	Signed in; plan may limit depth
Company statistics tabs	Signed in; subscription may apply
Export directory results	Per plan

Full matrix: Permissions and access.

What you can do (and what you cannot)

You can

Edit your team's company profile, legal representative, and banking
Search and filter the companies directory
Drill from notices, authorities, and dashboards into market profiles
Use statistics for bid/no-bid and competitive positioning

You cannot

Edit a market company's name, VAT, or win history
Create a market company record manually
Use Analytics → Companies to fix document auto-fill — use Team → Settings
Merge two market company rows — disambiguate with fiscal identifier

FAQ

What is the difference between company profile and market company?

Company profile is your team's legal identity you edit in settings. Market company is a read-only intelligence record built from public tender participation data.

Where do I set our VAT code?

Team → Settings → Company profile → edit sheet. Not under Analytics.

Why does strategic gap not appear for our company?

Your team fiscal identifier may not match any directory record, or you are viewing your own company page in a context that hides self-comparison. Confirm VAT in settings matches official registration.

Can I edit a competitor's profile?

No. Market companies sync from official sources. Research only.

Does company profile affect alerts?

Indirectly — alerts match notices, not company profiles. Accurate team settings affect documents and offers inside pursuits.

How do I get from a notice to a company profile?

Open Notice → Participants (after award or when published) and click the Company name. Or search Analytics → Companies by name or fiscal ID.

Is organisation (onboarding) the same as company profile?

Organisation captures initial business context at signup. Company profile is the persisted legal fields in settings used for auto-fill. Complete the profile in settings even if onboarding collected a name.

Do collaborators edit company profile?

Team members with access to Team → Settings can edit profile sections. Restrict sensitive updates through your internal process — the product does not split profile fields by role beyond team membership.

Company profile
Companies directory
Company tenders
Company connections
Company statistics
Team
Contracting authority
Notice (Tender)
How information flows
Core concepts