Review an Open Opportunity

You can review open opportunities that general contractors have made publicly visible.

After reviewing an open opportunity, you can choose to bid on it. You can also create RFIs to ask the general contractor to provide more information.

To review an open opportunity:

  1. Navigate to the Open opportunities page. This page lists all open opportunities that general contractors have made publicly available to subcontractors. The default view is by project, but you can choose to browse by bid package for a more granular view of opportunities. Select the Packages option to view opportunities by bid package.

    Each opportunity displays information columns which will vary slightly depending on whether you are viewing by project or by package.

  2. To narrow the list of open opportunities by criteria like location and category, select Filters.

    In the filter dialog box, Location (office) refers to the office location of your company that you will use to specify the Service area. This is how far your company is willing to travel from the office location to a project. The value you enter here will remove opportunities that are farther away from the specified office location. The distance format defaults to your local data center standards: miles (US/Canada) or kilometers (AU).

    Select Apply.

    Further refine the Open opportunities list by selecting one of the column headers which sorts the list according to the category you select. For example, if you want to see opportunities that are in specific locations, select Project location, and all of the opportunities are sorted by their location sites.

  3. On the Open opportunities page, select an open opportunity. If you are in the default Projects view, selecting a project will expand a list panel to the right of the application page containing all bid packages associated with that specific project. If you are in the Packages view, you will automatically view all bid packages associated with every project opportunity.

    Here you can review the opportunity. Remember, the opportunities you see on the Open opportunities page are general calls for proposals. The organizations that post these opportunities may already have a relationship with your organization, but they may not. Make sure you thoroughly review open opportunities so you can craft your proposals accordingly.

    If you are a subcontractor with Premium access, you can view your history with a general contractor organization by selecting a specific opportunity and expanding Details. You will be able to see the number of invitations you've received to bid, as well as the number of times you've submitted a bid. This information is useful if you're trying to improve your rating with a general contractor or gain more visibility.

    To view a full list of files associated with an opportunity, select Maximize to maximize to a full page view. If you need to review a file attachment after exiting the application, you can download it locally.

  4. After you have reviewed the opportunity, you can choose to accept it, place a bid, or submit an RFI.

    Note: All times and dates display in the user's time zone. That means all project and opportunity-related dates are updated to display in your local time.

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