Proud moment! Most of the winners of the 112 mil. Europol tender for ICT consultancy are our partners, 5 companies out of 8. Hermix helps companies win public contracts.

How is your summer? Ours: hot and full. We launched new features in Hermix. We help you win public contracts, with more market intelligence, tender alerts, and automation based on AI.

• Calendar of renewals. A visual timeline of contracts that will expire and will likely be re-tendered.
• Unified email notifications. A single monitor can now send notifications for all types of notices.
• Improved opportunity, company & authority profiles – with even more commercial analyses.
• New documents indexed, analyzed & summarized, from e-licitatie.
• Saved reports can now be shared with colleagues.
• Library of Report templates.

What clients say.

This month brought us a number of new clients and fresh feedback from our users:

”Hermix is a game-changer! Amazing platform that helps me win calls for tender. It is user-friendly with excellent support. The data is accurate and very precise, helping me seal deals.” said Nicolas Vande Kerckhove, EU Account Manager, Capgemini

”Hermix is very easy to use and works great with DG Budget data. The clear graphics help us manage our tender responses quickly and easily. Highly recommend!” said David Duterre, Senior Business Development Executive, Uni Systems

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Exciting news! We cleaned up the 2023 FTS European Commission spending data.
From now on, you can easily access 2023 data for domains such as IT, construction, and services.
You can find this information in Hermix under the EC spend menu and access it with just one click.

See the data now!

We have 7 great new features in Hermix that will improve your overall app experience.

• Flags board 
  Helps team members manage the flagged opportunities of their organization, in a Kanban board.

• Daily digest email for changed opps
  You can now receive a single daily digest notification email, to receive all the news for all the opportunities you’re monitoring. The default setting is now ”daily digest emails” for all users. You can always revert to individual emails from Settings.
  
• Comments and history of opportunities
  Members of an organization can now share comments on opportunities, and check their history – e.g. past flags or comments.
  
• Self-service
  Organization owners can manage their users, roles, and seats. Owners automatically have a seat, granting them full access. We will also introduce ”free users”, with limited access.
  
• New data sources
  We now import all daily notices from the EU procurement portal TED (OJS), from the national Belgium and Romanian procurement portals, as well as all documents published on eTendering, and all documents and clarification questions published on the EU Funding Portal. All these are indexed and searchable in Hermix, including all docs, excels, and PDFs. Tender documents can be analyzed with our AI summarization tool.
  
• Download instantly all tender docs as zip archive
  From the EU Funding Portal, as zip archive, in Hermix. Clarification questions can be downloaded as a single PDF. You can setup email notifications for new docs or clarifications.
  
• In case you missed it: here is a summary and the recording of our last webinar on using AI for success in public sector procurement.

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Hermix is fantastic, and their support team is absolutely amazing. They helped us every step of the way, ensuring our success. Highly recommend!” (Jesse Lee, Board Advisor at EuroForce Gmbh).

Hermix participated in the Innovation Management for SMEs event organized by the Small Business Standards (SBS).

We had such a great collaboration earlier this year when we signed a €920k grant from Eureka Eurostars, in partnership with the University of Luxembourg.

This partnership was fundamental and served as a key factor in ensuring the project’s success. We are also glad to be beneficiaries of additional R&D funds, including, ERDF – ADR-BI, and the EU Datathon award from the Publications Office of the European Union.

Stefan Morcov represented us talking about innovation, SMEs, and public funding.

Our main key points were:

• Public funds are essential for funding innovation, especially for SMEs and startups.
• There are huge funds available & spent by gov, incl. public contracts and R&D grants. But it is expensive and difficult to access them => competition is low.
• There’s a gap between public funds/donnors vs. private beneficiaries.
• Hermix supports to analyze and organize this info + streamline proposal preparation, through market intelligence, AI/LLM summarization, proposal generation.
• We submitted 7 grants to win 2 + 1 award. The effort is huge, even with existing expertise.
• Hermix received incredible support, such as grants from Eureka Eurostars and ERDF, a great award + prize from EC – OP, as well as coaching through EIC.
• Practical innovation models and frameworks in startups. The difficulty to match formal models (e.g. TRL) with software/research startups, where agile models (SCRUM, Kanban) are a better fit.
• Private and public efforts should be combined.

The main pains of SMEs are:

• Finding relevant information. Too much info is available, difficult to analyze/organize.
• Overhead – incl. effort + cost to access public contracts, implement standards and frameworks (ISO, QA, GDPR, CMM…). Need to prioritize.
• Access to relevant networking + business opportunities.

About Hermix

Hermix (www.hermix.com) is the first market analytics platform for the public sector. It helps companies win public contracts, with tender monitoring and market intelligence.

Big data is already used heavily in retail, consumer, B2C/B2B. With Hermix, modern analytics is also available to B2G – Business-to-government. It brings public funding into the 21st century.

Hermix won the EU Datathon 2022 competition organized by the European Commission, as well as the Deloitte Impact Star award 2022, the CE Tech Rocketship! award in 2023 from Deloitte and Google Cloud, and the ‘Best Value 2023’ label from Capterra by Gartner.

About Innovation Management for SMEs event

The conference is designed for SMEs that are eager to explore new paths for growth and innovation. Participants have the opportunity to engage with ISO international experts on various topics, including Eureka EU funding, innovation hubs, and open innovations. This is a chance to learn about the different opportunities available for SMEs and how to make the most of them.

We are excited to announce that we are organizing our first webinar on Hyper-optimize public tendering with AI, on 18. April, at 11 am CET.

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What would be the topic of the webinar?

You can learn to use AI and modern technology to expand your pipeline, streamline your tendering process, and win more public contracts.

Agenda

• 2 trillion Euro per year in public contracts: Where is all the money?

• How to get public contracts. Secret ingredients for a competitive advantage in B2G – Business-to-Government

• Artificial Intelligence and analytics to win public tenders

• Q&A, interactive discussion

Why Join?

• Learn to leverage Public Sector sales data to improve opportunity identification & qualification.

• Identify market trends & insights, including competitor & partner actions.

• Learn how to leverage cutting-edge tech such as Generative AI to summarize public tenders and qualify opportunities faster.

For who it’s for

• Sales Managers and Directors working in IT, Construction, Professional Services, and any other Industry with public sector sales activity.

• Pre-mid managers & analysts.

• AI, Sales & Data enthusiasts.

After joining, make sure you also:

• Try Hermix, the #1 product to help you make sense of EU public sector sales data.

• Sign up for our AI Tender Summaries Beta Program.

Meet our hosts

The hosts will be Stefan Morcov, CEO Hermix, and Michael Mathieu, Sales Director at Westpole, Benelux.

Stefan Morcov

Hermix, founded by Stefan, CEO & Founder, is a market-leading analytics platform aimed at hyper-optimizing B2G sales processes through data and cutting-edge technology, with the mission to help companies win more public contracts by hyper-optimizing B2G sales processes using rich data & cutting-edge technology. Bringing a comprehensive background in computer science, business, and project management (MBA, PMP, PhD from KU Leuven), along with co-founding and leading Tremend Benelux to its acquisition by Publicis Sapient in 2022, Stefan utilizes his extensive experience in IT, software solutions, and business development to make Hermix the most well-organized tool for transforming public sector sales. Hermix offers tender monitoring, opportunity qualification, and deep market intelligence, enabling precise navigation and success in public contracting.

Michael Mathieu

Michael Mathieu is the Sales Director at Westpole, a leader in digital transformation with a focus on public sector projects. His multi-faceted experience in startups and corporate environments underpins his mission’s success. Known for creating trust at the C-level, Michael embodies Westpole’s commitment to innovation and technological progress.

See you in a week!

See also our previous webinars

• Webinars
• Data governance and AI in public sector & procurement live webinar 5 May 2025
• Hermix news, demo & training live webinar 21 January 2025
• November webinar: AI for public procurement and sales 27 November 2024
• AI for public sector sales automation and analytics with Hermix live webinar 22 October 2024

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Exciting news! We’ve just released a new feature: Tender summarization with AI.

• You can now analyze tenders and generate proposals automatically.
• The tool allows you to check:  project scope, eligibility criteria, and evaluation criteria in minutes saving hours for presales managers in their daily tasks.

Interested in joining the Beta program? Limited spots available.

Learn more by watching the following video:

We have new features in Hermix:

• Download all tender documents as a single ZIP archive (EC tenders only – published on the Participant Portal – SEDIA).
• Download Q&A as Pdf file (for EC tenders).
• Monitor and receive email notifications when new documents or Q&A are published for a tender.

All Belgium national tenders and notices are now available in Hermix.

We launched a new tool that summarizes tender specifications with AI/LLM.

Business news:

• Hermix signed a €920k R&D grant from Eureka Eurostars, in partnership with the University of Luxembourg.
• We successfully finalized a regional (ERDF) R&D grant of €250k.
• More than 600 users, great partners, and customers, on our platform. 

New customer testimonials. Send us 2 lines about your own experience! 

”Congratulations, you created something special. It is like taming a wild beast, to capture and manage such a complex structure.

As a consultancy, this could have saved us 2 people doing full-time data analysis and monitoring. No doubt it is great what you’ve done.”

Gerard McNamara, CEO & Founder – Schuman Associates

“Before utilizing this app, our process of identifying calls for tenders was labor-intensive and inefficient, involving manual data reverse engineering and complex pipeline creation.

This app has revolutionized our approach, automating the search and database construction, saving us invaluable time, and significantly improving our market insights. Its intuitive interface and robust functionality have not only streamlined our operations but also provided us with a strategic advantage in navigating the public sector market.

We’re now able to act on opportunities faster and more effectively than ever before, thanks to this transformative tool.”

Michael Mathieu, Sales director at Westpole

Hermix wins funding from Eureka Eurostars for the project “Hermix-Grants – Public grants innovation: intelligence, analytics and automation with data-science, big-data and AI/ML“.

The project aims to create an IT platform designed to aid researchers and businesses in navigating grant opportunities. It will provide users with deep-analysis and support to understand, predict, and control the European funding ecosystem.

The product Hermix-Grants will use technology that allows the integration and aggregation of multiple databases and data sources, so that relevant information can be easily accessed at any time, through interfaces and reports adapted to the needs of the future beneficiaries of grants. It will perform intelligent data interpretation using specialized big-data and AI analysis.

The project is implemented in an effective partnership with the University of Luxembourg. The international collaboration is fundamental, serving as a key factor ensuring the project’s success.

Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation, present in over 45 countries. Eurostars is the largest international funding programme for SMEs wishing to collaborate on R&D projects that create innovative products, processes or services for commercialisation.
The program is co-funded by the European Union through Horizon Europe.

The technical coordinator for this project is Dr. Eng. Stefan Morcov, computer science engineer, MBA, PhD from KU Leuven university.

Prof. Dr. Radu State is the head of the research group SEDAN (Service and Data Management) at SnT. He obtained his MSc at the Johns Hopkins University (USA) and his PhD at INRIA (France). He supervises 14 PhD students, 8 R&D specialists, and 12 research associates, working on several industry driven projects with local and international companies.

“We are honored to be part of the Eurostars program and partner with the prestigious University of Luxembourg. Hermix is our child and passion. Over more than 2 years, we have put a lot of effort into its development, achieving already strong results. We eagerly anticipate enhancing it further with the support of Eureka and the University of Luxembourg. Our collaboration was crucial for this“, says Stefan Morcov, CEO Hermix.

“We are very excited to work on this project together, and bring our institutions closer through research”, says Prof. Radu State, head of the SEDAN research group at the University of Luxembourg.

The added value of the project consists in offering an innovative solution to clients that apply to non-reimbursable funding and grants. It will lead to savings in processing time, the reduction of human errors, and above all the automation of advanced data analysis processes. Last but not least, it will offer simplicity and comfort in use, democratizing European public funding.

About Hermix – public sector sales analytics

Hermix (www.hermix.com) is the first market analytics platform for the public sector. It helps companies win public contracts, with tender monitoring and market intelligence.
Big data is already used heavily in retail, consumer, B2C/B2B. With Hermix, modern analytics is also available to B2G – Business-to-government. It brings public funding into the 21st century.
Hermix won the EU Datathon 2022 competition organized by the European Commission, as well as the Deloitte Impact Star award 2022, the CE Tech Rocketship! award in 2023 from Deloitte and Google Cloud, and the ‘Best Value 2023’ label from Capterra by Gartner.

About the University of Luxembourg

The University of Luxembourg is a renowned research institution committed to achieving excellence in both fundamental and applied research, as well as in education. It actively fosters innovation for the benefit of society, boasts a significant number of graduate students, and integrates research, teaching, and societal impact.
The research group SEDAN (Service and Data Management in Distributed Systems) at SnT at the University of Luxembourg focuses on Blockchain, Big Data Systems and Network Security. It consists of 14 PhD students, 8 R&D specialists, and 12 research associates working on several industry driven projects with local and international companies. It develops partnerships and attracted important FNR co-funding cumulating over several millions euros over the last few years, aiming to go from applied research to spin-off creations, and create both a young and motivated entrepreneurship success story as well as generate high skill job opportunities for PhD graduates.

A new version of Ted.europa.eu was launched this week. The new platform is different and will require some learning from all public sector sales aficionados.

Ted is the European public procurement portal. It publishes 2600 tenders and notices per day.

At Hermix, we import this data as soon as it is published on Ted. We also perform deep data analysis, and provide readable, actionable infographics to our users.

We send daily email notifications on topics of interest.

We publish intelligent, friendly reports.

Complex authority profiles.

Smart tender analysis.

We provide an additional level of intelligence and usability, over the raw data from official sources such as Ted.