Understanding Tender Process

Tender Manager app is a set of different form types, which include:

Users need to follow a proper sequence while creating forms within the Tender Manager app.

‘01. Invitation to Tender’ form needs to be created first by the concerned user belonging to the ‘Tender Team’ role.

Only once ‘Invitation to Tender’ form is created, remaining form types (as listed above) can be created based on the created ‘Invitation to Tender’ form i.e. form ID.

The tender process can be divided into 4 different stages as mentioned below:

Tender initialization

Creating ‘Invitation to Tender’

Bidder's expression of interest

Expression of Interest (Applicable for Public bids only)

Bidder’s response and query

Respond to the invited tender

Raise a ‘Tender Query’

Initiate ‘Tender Communication’

Managing an existing tender

Raising an ‘Addendum’

Respond to the Query by bidders

Adding ‘Points for Clarification’

Invite additional users using ‘Supplementary ITT’

Analyzing bids (quotations) and awarding tenders

Reviewing received bids (quotations), awarding the tender or rejecting quotations

Comparing bids (quotations) using reports

Using Bid Tracker