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1. Biddingo.com for buyers
- Bid postings
- Bid distribution
- Vendors
- Automatic vendor notification of bid opportunities & amendments
Biddingo.com is an online public sector bid portal designed to facilitate the procurement process.
Whether you are a public sector purchasing manager, general contractor, engineer, architect, or represent a college, university, hospital, church, etc.… you can manage the entire e-Procurement process by posting and broadcasting your bid opportunities on Biddingo.com. Your bids will be viewed by thousands of vendors or pre-selected vendors in our network. Buyers can also distribute bid documents, publish bid results and award contracts.
Biddingo.com is user-friendly. You can register in just a few minutes and start posting bids for FREE! Biddingo’s bid posting process is an easy step-by-step tutorial guiding you along the way. The system also allows buyers to post bids at their convenience. You can start creating an RFP and save it in the system until it’s ready to be published.
There’s no need to involve your IT department, and we offer unlimited customer care should you require assistance. Best of all, there is no cost to you for using the system!
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2. Top 10 reasons to register with Biddingo:
- Access to thousands of vendors with push technology and online bid notice distribution. When you release a bid notice on Biddingo.com, the system will match it to a database of thousands of suppliers and send them a direct email and fax notice of your opportunity!
- Get suppliers on your bidder’s list with Biddingo’s Vendor Registration service. Create a vendor registration form online and when suppliers log onto Biddingo.com, they will see your company is inviting suppliers to get on a bidder’s list.
- Source vendors from Biddingo.com’s vast pool of nationwide suppliers.
- Maintain a database of your selected vendors.
- Create and publish bid notices for general supplier access.
- Invitation only options to suppliers are exclusive to Biddingo.
- Track & view e-document takers
- Make bid documents available for download, which we provide FREE to our subscribers, if buyers don’t charge.
- Collect a fee for bid packages such as blueprints, if desired. Biddingo acts as your e-commerce solution!
- Issue amendments with just a few clicks.
- Publish bid results and award contracts.
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3. Buyer Features & Benefits
- No outsourcing
- No hosting
- No contracts
- No fees
Biddingo is an extension of your e-purchasing department
Let us provide the tools and resources to make your job easier!
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Customizable tools
Use only the Biddingo features you need. Buyers have access to a wide variety
of bid publishing, sourcing and vendor management options.
Flexible publishing options
Buyers have access to post bids, documents, amendments, award notices, and
bid document takers. You can choose to use one feature or all of them!
Hosted Bid Listing
Take advantage of our purchasing bid portal. Biddingo provides you with
the components you need to publish bids on your own site for free! Simply add
a link to your current purchasing webpage and Biddingo will link it directly
to your open bid opportunities listed on Biddingo.com.
At your request, Biddingo.com will source additional vendors at no charge to maximize the bid responses.
Access to Vendor Management tools
Biddingo has developed electronic tools specifically for buyers, so you
can better manage pre-qualified vendors and vendors of record. With our Vendor
Registration process, you no longer have to worry about out of date contacts.
You’ll have access to the latest information as updates are done electronically by vendors.
Perform quick vendor list updates
Biddingo provides the tools you need to update your vendor list automatically
by sending out one message to everyone on your list
Options to search and sort suppliers
Buyers can search for suppliers by class, commodity code, category or business name.
Dual layered invitation process
- Biddingo sends invitations to your vendors
Biddingo will invite your vendors to the bid opportunity via email, fax and by phone. When they receive the bid invitation and they are not Biddingo subscribers, they’ll have the option to register as subscribers to access the information online, or they can receive the bid notice and documents directly from you. - Send invites by email to your own vendors
Whether you have a small or large purchase, you can use Biddingo’s invitation process to invite and notify your vendors of the opportunity.
Bid document order taking
If you have to charge for bid packages, you can use Biddingo to take online
orders and you will be reconciled on a monthly basis.1 There’s no need
for supplier to visit you and pick-up documents.
1 15% admin fee applies.
4. How to get started
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5. Publishing Bids on Biddingo.com
- Easy 5-step process. Just log on to Biddingo.com at any time and enter the bid scope, or send us the information and we’ll do it for you. No training required.
- Vendors notified of bid within 24 hours of publishing
- Conforms to your organization’s purchasing requirements (e.g. use open or closed invitations, invite your vendor list, choose to charge for bid documents)
- Manage all bids in one place – both current and historical
- Ensures a fair, open and transparent procurement process, compliant with the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
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6. How bids are organized
Biddingo.com makes it easy for bidders to locate your business opportunities. All bids are organized into 14 main categories, such as Business Services and Construction, and 79 subcategories, such as Roads / sewer / water main, and winter maintenance / supplies, which are easy to use and understand. We do not use SIC codes. To review the categories and determine where your purchase would apply, click here.
7. Document Distribution
With Biddingo, buyers can abide by contract laws
- Make bid documents available online for download
- Keep track of document takers – abide by contract laws
- Easily send amendments to document takers
- Use flexible document distribution options - collect fees for documents, arrange courier delivery of documents and/or samples or upload read-only documents onto the system for vendors
8. Public Sector Organizations Using Biddingo.com
Your peers are posting bid opportunities for FREE, and getting access to thousands of suppliers. Join them today by registering here!
Algonquin And Lakeshore Catholic District School Board |
Ross Memorial Hospital |
9. Sourcing Vendors and Managing Vendor Relationships using Source It
- Source vendors from Biddingo.com’s 20,000+ database, eliminating the need to source vendors yourself. Access quality vendors both within and outside your immediate market, providing you with better choices and value
- Biddingo.com will source additional vendors at no extra expense to you
- Maintain your own vendor list online for easy access
- Easy communication with vendors – all your vendor contacts in one place and you are able to source all vendors based on various criteria including business category and company name.
10. Myths about Biddingo.com
Myth: Biddingo.com takes
free information and sells it to vendors.
Fact: Our Research Department searches
government websites, newspapers and other publications for available bid opportunities.
Our Research Department conducts daily searches through hundreds of public Municipal, Academic, University, College, Libraries, School Board, Health Care Sector and other government websites for you. When business opportunities are located, we categorize and post them on Biddingo.com. Our subscribers receive a Bid Alert the following morning.
This is considered a time-saving service for our subscribers as it saves them time from searching for bids on hundreds of public websites. With Biddingo.com, they only need to come to one place.
Myth: Biddingo.com just
sells my documents.
Fact: Biddingo
is more than a bid publishing and bid distribution service. It offers
buyers with purchasing and vendor management tools. Suppliers get access to
sales leads, promotional tools, and B2B bidding. Bid documents are FREE
to Biddingo.com subscribers (unless buyers opt to charge them, then the
cost is passed onto the subscriber). Non-subscribers pay a reasonable one-time
fee for the documents for processing and handling.
Myth: Vendors have to pay to
get bid information.
Fact: Biddingo.com
offers an additional means for buyers to publish, distribute and promote their
bid notices. Vendors can still access bid information for FREE by
clicking through to your website. Vendors who subscribe to Biddingo.com
are paying around 60 cents per day for a service that notifies them immediately
of hundreds of available tenders, not just yours. They are paying for the service
Biddingo provides in finding bid opportunities from a variety of sources
nationwide, not the bid notice.
Myth:
I’ll have to outsource my document distribution to Biddingo.com.
Fact: With
Biddingo.com, you are not outsourcing. You are in complete control
of the procurement process. We do most of the clerical work for you, such as
sourcing vendors, publishing your bids, notifying vendors and distributing
bid documents and amendments, but you are not outsourcing.
Myth:
If I’m on Biddingo.com I can’t publish bids on my own
website.
Fact: You can publish bids on Biddingo
in addition to publishing bids on your site, or you can have vendors click
through to Biddingo.com to get the bid information for free! Many
buyers choose to use Biddingo.com exclusively for all their purchasing
needs as it provides a seamless and integrated procurement process. However,
some buyers choose to post on Biddingo in addition to posting on their
own website.