If the button in the invitation email says Answer the Questions, the tender has pre-qualification: the buyer wants to assess your company before collecting bids.
Step by step
- Open the Prequalification tab on the tender page.
- Answer the questions. The answer format depends on the question: free text, Yes or No, a file upload or a rating from 1 to 5.
- Answer all required questions; if one is empty, the form is not sent.
- Click Save Answers. When you see the "Answers saved" message, your answers have reached the buyer.
Until the buyer decides, you can change your answers with Edit Answers. After the decision, the answers are locked.
Result
| Decision | What happens |
|---|---|
| Approved | You receive a "Prequalification Approved" email. When the buyer starts the bidding round, you learn the bid deadline from the "Bidding Round Opened" email and bid from the Submit Bid tab. |
| Rejected | You receive a "Prequalification Result" email. The buyer's reason is shown both in the email and on the tender page. You cannot bid on this tender. |
Good to know
The approval email may not mean you can bid yet: the buyer may not have started the bidding round. You get a separate email when the round starts. Until then, the page says "You can bid when the tender starts."
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