The Opportunity page is presented as per image below and it contains the following components.
| 1 | If you have registered interest to the current opportunity, the Accept button will be automatically selected. If you have been invited to bid on an opportunity, you will need to accept the invitation before completing and submitting your responses. |
| 2 | Click Documentation to view and download all documents provided by the buying organisation related to this opportunity. The documents may be structured in folders and will be displayed as show below:
a. Shared documents will be displayed per folder and it is possible to expand or collapse the list of documents by clicking on the arrow displayed next to the folder name b. New documents not yet downloaded by yourself yet will be marked as New c. Click Download to download the document. Once downloaded, the system will mark the date/time and the name of the user that has downloaded the file. When the buyer replaces a document in the document archives, the original upload will be shown under Uploaded Date. When there is a new upload, an archived file will also be in the list under Document name as per in the screenshots below:
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| 3 | The communication between the organisation and yourselves must take place via messenger function. You can access all communications on the Message page. |
| 4 | Each Requirement Section will contain several requirements. All Requirement Sections will be visible here and you will have to open each one of them to access the requirements. |
| 5 | Every section will contain a number of required requirements and, as you enter your responses, the column will reflect the number of remaining required requirements due to complete. |
| 6 | The completion status for each Requirement Section is calculated by the system from all the Required responses in the requirement section.
You do not need to have marked each Response as complete to submit your final response. Note: The Completion Status bars are determined by how many responses you have entered and whether you have marked them as complete. If you had entered all mandatory responses but had not marked any as complete, the bar would show as 50%. The Complete? checkbox provides you wilt the option to draft responses first and then confirm or approve later. You do not need to have marked each response as complete in order to submit your final |
| 7 | When you click Submit the system will check that you have completed all the required Requirements (including the Pass/Fail requirements). The responses will then be marked as Complete and display a submission confirmation message. Upon confirmation of a submission, a notification of submission will be sent to the email address registered and a copy of it is available in the Message Centre as well. |
| 8 | When you confirm the submission, the status of each Requirement Section will update accordingly. As the project progresses into other project stages, the submission status for each Requirement Section and Project Stage will update accordingly. |
| 9 | If you need to decline the invitation, you can do so by clicking on Decline. You will be given the option to write a message for the buying organisation.
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