Search tenders and tender invitations

Searching for tender invitations

1. Click Tenders in the Module Menu.

2. Select Invitations.

3. Type your search criteria into the search field. You can search using keywords, in which case the search will search every field of the tenders for the term. Or, you can refine your search using the search strings below.

4. Click the Status field to display the Status window.
5. Select the status of the tender you want to find, and click the right-pointing arrows to select it.
6. Click OK to save the selection.
7. Click Search to retrieve the relevant results.

For example, to find tender invitations that close on Friday, July 31st, 2014, you could use the search string, closedate:20140731.

To search for invitations using a certain keyword that you know is in the title—say, scaffolding—you can specify that using title:scaffolding.

If you want to include all invitations that include variations of scaffold, such as scaffolds and scaffolding, you can use the asterisk Boolean operator, like so: title:scaffold*

Searching for draft tenders

1. Click Tenders in the Module Menu.

2. Select Drafts.

3. Type your search criteria into the search field using the search strings above.

4. Click Search.

If you know when you saved the draft, you can use the “saveddate” criteria to specify that date in your search.

Or, use the Boolean operator TO to specify a date range if you can’t remember the exact date the tender was saved.