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Bid Management
Overview
Buzzsaw enables you to electronically distribute bid invitations, manage
communications with bidders, track responses, and receive bids online. Within
Buzzsaw, bid management is a business process that is added to a project. A bid
management business process cannot exist outside of a project.
1 Bid administrator
adds a bid business process to a project (page 263).
2 Bid administrator configures the
Bid Management Options (page 358).
3 Bid administrator
adds a vendor (page 352) to the project.
4 Bid administrator
addsa new bid package (page 352).
5 Bid administrator sends out
bid invitations (page 352).
6 Bidder
receives and reviews invitation (page 356).
7 Bidder
creates intent to bid (page 356).
8 Bidder
submits intent to bid (page 356).
9 Bid administrator
tracks responses (page 360) from the bidders in the Bid
Management dashboard by updating the package with a bidder's response.
10 Bidder
submits (page 356) a bid. Bidders can update or remove a bid (page
356) after it has been submitted.
11 Bid administrators can send notifications (page 360) to bidders after a bid
has been submitted to alert the bidder or changes.
See also:
Bid Management Dashboard for Administrators (page 352)
Bid Management Dashboard for Bid Recipients (page 356)
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