Terms of Service — South-West Tender Brief
Last updated: 12 May 2026
These terms are a contract between you and the operator of South-West Tender Brief. By subscribing to or using South-West Tender Brief you agree to them. If you don’t agree, don’t subscribe.
1. Who we are
South-West Tender Brief (“the Service”, “we”, “us”) is operated by Frederick Leatham, trading as Jarvis Galliers, a sole trader based in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Contact: support@swtenderbrief.co.uk.
2. What the Service is
South-West Tender Brief sends email digests of public-sector contract opportunities — primarily those with an estimated value under £50,000 — advertised by contracting authorities in South-West England.
- Free tier: a monthly email digest covering all of South-West England, unfiltered.
- Paid tier (£89/year): a weekly email digest filtered to the trades and postcode areas you select, sent ahead of the free monthly roll-up, including bid-deadline reminders.
The Service is an information and alerting service only. We are not a procurement portal, we are not party to any tender, we don’t submit bids for you, and we don’t give you legal, financial, or bid-writing advice.
3. The data, and its limits
Tender information is compiled automatically from public sources, including Contracts Finder, the Find a Tender Service, and individual contracting authorities’ public listings. That public-sector information is used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Because the data is third-party-sourced and compiled automatically, we don’t warrant that it is complete, accurate, current, or that any particular opportunity is included. Always check the original notice on the contracting authority’s own site (we link to it) before relying on anything — deadlines, values, scope and eligibility on the source notice are what count, not our summary. We are not liable for an opportunity we missed, mis-summarised, or surfaced late. Deadlines and details change; the authority’s published notice always prevails.
4. Your account and the information you give us
To receive a digest you give us an email address; paid subscribers also tell us their trades and postcode areas so we can filter. You agree the information you give is accurate and that the email address is yours to use. Keep your subscription details up to date via the link in each digest. We handle your personal data as described in our Privacy Notice.
5. Payment, renewal and cancellation
- The paid tier costs £89 per year, billed in advance, processed by Stripe. Prices include any applicable tax (we are not currently VAT-registered, so no VAT is added).
- Your subscription renews automatically each year at the then-current price unless you cancel before the renewal date. We email you a reminder roughly 14 days before each renewal.
- You can cancel at any time through the account-management link in every digest (Stripe Customer Portal) or by emailing support. Cancellation stops the next renewal; your access continues until the end of the year you’ve paid for.
- Refunds are governed by our Refund & Cancellation Policy, which forms part of these terms. Nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights, including your right under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 to cancel within 14 days of your first purchase.
- If we change the price, we’ll tell you before it takes effect; the new price applies from your next renewal, and you can cancel if you don’t accept it.
6. Acceptable use
You may use the digests for your own business purposes. You may not:
- resell, republish, or redistribute the digests or any substantial part of them as a competing product or service;
- scrape, bulk-download, or systematically extract content from any web page or email we provide, beyond normal personal use;
- share your subscription so that people who haven’t paid receive the paid digest (occasional forwarding of an issue to a colleague is fine; running a shared inbox for a whole trade association is not);
- use the Service unlawfully or to do anything unlawful.
We may suspend or end your access (with a pro-rata refund of any unused paid period, unless you’ve seriously breached these terms) if you break this section.
7. Availability
We aim to send the digests on roughly the schedule described, but we don’t guarantee uninterrupted service, specific send times, or that every issue will go out. The Service may be paused, changed, or withdrawn. If we permanently discontinue the paid Service, we’ll refund the unused portion of your current paid year on a pro-rata basis.
8. Liability
Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything that can’t be limited by law.
Subject to that: the Service is provided “as is”; we don’t accept liability for business losses (lost contracts, lost profits, lost opportunities, wasted bid costs, business interruption) or for any loss that arises from you relying on the digest rather than the original notice. Our total liability to you for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (which, for a free-tier user, is zero).
This reflects the price: £89/year buys you a useful heads-up, not a guarantee.
9. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. If a change materially affects your rights, we’ll tell you by email and/or in a digest before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the change; if you don’t, cancel and (if within scope of the refund policy) ask for a refund.
10. Ending the Service / your subscription
You can stop using the free tier any time by unsubscribing. You can cancel the paid tier as described in section 5. We can end your subscription on reasonable notice (with a pro-rata refund of unused paid time) or immediately for serious breach of these terms.
11. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have non-exclusive jurisdiction. If you’re a consumer in another UK nation, you keep the protections of your home law. We’d always rather sort a problem out by email first — contact support@swtenderbrief.co.uk.
Operated by Frederick Leatham, trading as Jarvis Galliers, sole trader. Tender data contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.