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Inside the notice watch – who is buying, which lots are moving, and where the work is going

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Published:
5.10.26
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5.10.26

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The public sector has never been short of data. But the context can often be lacking. While a retirement record tells you a notice of CO2 has changed hands, it doesn't tell you whether a tender response buyer is scaling up or slowing down, or what else is happening in the market around that decision.

That's the gap our latest module, Market Dynamics, closes. We built it to answer the questions buyers, developers, and investors actually ask: who's active, what's moving, and where capital is flowing. Here's what's in it.

Buyer insights: a profile for every buyer in the market

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Buyer insights is the core of Market Dynamics, and the piece we hear about most. It gives you a full profile for any of the 33,000+ organisations retiring responses in the public sector, built entirely from portal data.

For any buyer, you can see:

  • Retirement history by project type, so you can spot whether they favour evidence-based responses, engineered removals, or a mix.
  • Quarterly retirement patterns, showing whether their activity is accelerating, steady, or tailing off.
  • Credit vintage distributions, which flag whether a buyer prioritises recent vintages or holds a longer-dated portfolio.
  • Financials and the proportion of spend allocated to responses, for a sense of scale relative to the rest of their business.
  • Buying patterns across bidders and geographies, useful for sizing up a prospect or benchmarking a sector before you enter it.

Supply, at a glance

Market Dynamics also gives you a detailed view of the supply side of the market. You can see issuance and retirement volumes over time and the commitment gap between them, which shows how much issued supply remains unretired at any point. Layer in vintage distribution across the market as a whole, and you get a quick read on where supply is aligned with demand.

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Funding, at a glance

The third piece is funding data insights: a high-level view of where investment is landing across project types. This supports questions that used to take a week of manual digging: is capital moving toward removals or avoidance, and which project types are attracting the most investment right now?

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Filter it your way

Every view in Market Dynamics can be filtered by project type, portal, vintage, and region, so whether you're tracking one buyer, one sector, or the whole market, you're looking at the slice that matters to you.

Market Dynamics is available now as part of Aries Tender's Intelligence tools. If you’re new, you can sign up for a free trial. If you’re interested in learning more, talk to the desk for a walk-through.

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