QuickTenders Resources
Guides to tendering, and to QuickTenders
How-to guides written against the current product, a dictionary of South African procurement terms, and the words QuickTenders uses with you.
Guides
- 01How to apply for a tender with QuickTendersWhat 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.~6 min read
- 02How QuickTenders worksFrom 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
- 03How to improve your tender matchingMatching 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
- 04Understanding Match ScoreWhat the number beside each match means, why 100 can mean "two factors matched", and how Match Score differs from Tender Fit.~2 min read
- 05Understanding your Readiness ScoreThe 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
- 06How your Company Profile worksThe 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
- 07How to upload company documents for Biz EnablementWhich documents to upload, in what form, what happens after you upload, and how renewals and replacements work.~2 min read
- 08How QuickTenders reads your company documentsWhat 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
- 09How to read a tender before you applyThe 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
- 10How to use the Tender WorkspaceWhat is in a workspace, the order to work through it, what Build My Submission writes and what it leaves for you.~2 min read
- 11How to complete Bid QuestionsThe seven questions a workspace asks, why each is asked, and what unanswered, provisional and confirmed mean.~1 min read
- 12How to review your submissionWhat 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
- 13How to submit your bid after QuickTendersThe 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
References
- Tender DictionarySouth African tender and procurement terms — CIDB, CSD, B-BBEE, SBD, RFQ, RFP and more — defined in plain language with official sources.
- Platform TermsWhat QuickTenders means by Readiness Score, Tender Fit, Bid Questions, Submission Pack, Final Review and 23 other terms you meet inside the product.
