QuickTenders Resources
Tender Guides and References for South African Businesses
How-to guides written against the current product, a dictionary of South African procurement terms, and the words QuickTenders uses with you.
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Step-by-step guides
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How to apply for a tender with QuickTenders
What QuickTenders fills in for you, what only you can decide, which forms come back needing your signature, and what to have ready before you start.~8 min read - 02
How QuickTenders works
From a company profile to a submission pack — what QuickTenders does at each stage, what it needs from you, and where the boundary is.~2 min read - 03
How to improve your tender matching
Matching scores every open tender against your Company Profile. Here is exactly which fields it reads, and what to change when the matches are wrong or thin.~2 min read - 04
Understanding Match Score
What the number beside each match means, why 100 can mean "two factors matched", and how Match Score differs from Tender Fit.~2 min read - 05
Understanding your Readiness Score
The Readiness Score is a proportion of what applies to your business, not of 100. What it counts, what it excludes and why, and what 50% unlocks.~2 min read - 06
How your Company Profile works
The Company Profile is what every match, score and bid is built from. What goes in it, which parts you declare, which parts come from documents, and how the two are kept apart.~2 min read - 07
How to upload company documents for Biz Enablement
Which documents to upload, in what form, what happens after you upload, and how renewals and replacements work.~2 min read - 08
How QuickTenders reads your company documents
What QuickTenders takes from each document, what it deliberately does not take, and how a fact read from a document is treated differently from one you typed.~2 min read - 09
How to read a tender before you apply
The six things to check in any South African tender before you commit — and where QuickTenders shows each one on the tender page.~2 min read - 10
How to use the Tender Workspace
What is in a workspace, the order to work through it, what Build My Submission writes and what it leaves for you.~2 min read - 11
How to complete Bid Questions
The seven questions a workspace asks, why each is asked, and what unanswered, provisional and confirmed mean.~1 min read - 12
How to review your submission
What Final Review checks, what the three pack states mean, what the five facts per form tell you, and what the download acknowledgement records.~2 min read - 13
How to submit your bid after QuickTenders
The Submission Pack is yours to lodge. What to do between download and the closing time, by submission method, and what to record afterwards.~1 min read
Reference pages
Tender Dictionary
South African tender and procurement terms — CIDB, CSD, B-BBEE, SBD, RFQ, RFP and more — defined in plain language with official sources.Platform Terms
What QuickTenders means by Readiness Score, Tender Fit, Bid Questions, Submission Pack, Final Review and 23 other terms you meet inside the product.