Managing the construction bidding process is quite different from procuring office supplies, yet many organizations try to force fit such a solution using manual and offline processes. Unifier’s Bid Management functionality replaces manual processes by providing a complete online solution that allows you to send bid invitations, receive and review bids, and maintain all bid information, submissions, attachments and communications with the rest of the project information, where they belong.
Bidders are provided with a simple, browser-based bidding form and an in-built communication feature that require no special training to use. Bid managers can communicate with bidders, review bids and compare them side-by-side, all within Unifier. The flexible solution can be used for open, public bidding or a closed process with select vendors.
The system also incorporates vendor management, including a master vendor list, business processes for vendor approval, and integration with existing vendor systems. Unifier provides a robust filter to make searches more efficient and less time consuming when sending bid invitations to a subset of relevant vendors such as by vendor type, MWBE status or any other factor.
Unifier’s Bid Management solution makes the entire bidding process more efficient for all participants with many specialized features to adhere to various procurement principles and rules.
