Your client can use Opportunities to manage frameworks, send updates and issue bids & tenders
Quick start guide (2 mins)
This short video gives you information on how to view and manage Opportunities.
TIP! Use the filters on the left side of your Opportunity Index to filter your Opportunities by "Status" or "Decision".
Note: Be cautious about sharing information on any Opportunity with a padlock - these have been marked private by your client due to commercial and security sensitivities.
MANAGING OPPORTUNITIES
Detailed guides:
1. Viewing and managing your Opportunities
Watch the quick start guide above to find out how to:
- View, search and filter your list of Opportunities
- Explore the details of an Opportunity
2. Responding to an Opportunity
As a supplier you can to respond and engage with Opportunities. When your client invites you to an Opportunity you will receive a notification via email. You can then:
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Receive bid materials, including updates to deadlines
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Receive updates
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Send and receive direct messages with individual clients
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Issue proposals
We recommend that you invite your Business Development lead to join your account, so that they can receive notifications on new Opportunities from your client. There is no charge for this and no limit on the users you can have.
Watch this video to find out how to:
- View updates from your client on an Opportunity
- Message the client team for an Opportunity
- Submit a proposal on an Opportunity
3. Four ways that clients can use Opportunities
Our Opportunities feature has been designed to support the different types of opportunities you receive from clients - from bidding for a place on a framework, responding to an open innovation competition to a traditional mini-tender or even as a channel of communication with the supply chain.
Bids and mini-tenders
Opportunities support clients in running and managing bids, providing one home to store the bid information, updates and submissions.
Bids and mini tenders will have a deadline. You can submit proposals via the Opportunity page - where you can also send private messages to your client. For example, to ask a clarification question.
Your client will use the platform to review your submission, automatically notifying you of the status of your proposal.
Frameworks
Clients running frameworks want to share core information and regular updates with all suppliers. Your client may invite you to join a framework as a way of sending information to the whole supply chain - for example an invitation to a meet the buyer event or a quarterly update.
A framework won't have a deadline and it's likely you won't need to submit a proposal. You can send private messages about the framework to your client via the Opportunity page.
Challenges and competitions
Clients may ask you to take part in a competition or an open call for innovation ideas.
Your client will explain the terms of the challenge and competition on the Opportunity page. For example, whether there is a deadline or whether submissions will be reviewed ad hoc.
You can submit a proposal via the Opportunity page and your client will use the platform to review your submission, automatically notifying you of the status of your proposal.
Communications and updates to the Supply Chain
Clients may use the Opportunities features to provide updates and communications to all of the suppliers they work with. This might include changes to Terms and Conditions, further information on new requests for information or on new supply chain initiatives.