How Suppliers View/Download a Request or Tender

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On the Supplier's homepage, they can view the Requests they have been invited to view and respond to and a list of the Public Tender opportunities that are available to them from the lists, categories and regions of service they've registered on.

To provide this information to a Supplier, please use this link to the same article in the VendorPanel Supplier's Help Centre: https://vendorpanelsuppliers.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/900002557623-Viewing-Downloading-a-Request-or-Tender

Where Suppliers are selected by a Buyer to respond to a Request it will appear on their homepage under the Current Requests heading.

Public Tenders will be available under the Open Market Tenders heading by selecting the Click to view button. You can find information on how Suppliers access Public Tenders here: How Suppliers View & Access a Public Tender.

Viewing Request/Tender Details

To view a Request or Tender they can click the magnifying glass icon located to the right of the Request or Tender. 

This will open up a pop-up window that contains all of the information related to the Request, including the following:

  • Open/Close Dates
  • What the buyer is requesting
  • Questions asked by the buyer
  • Attachments to the request
  • Buyer details
  • Selected Supplier Lists
  • Selected Categories
  • Selected Regions of Service (for public tenders only)
  • Questions that they have asked, including answers (if answered)
  • Questions from other Suppliers that have been answered publically
  • Any updates made to the request

Downloading the Request Package

They can download all of the Request details and attachments in a single zipped folder. To do this they will need to click the download icon located to the right of the request.

To download the attachments individually they can click the documents icon.

They will then see a pop-up window with all the attachments to the Request/Tender. They can click on the file name of the document they want to download:

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Alternatively, they can click the DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING button above to download all the attachments at once.