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Construction companies require vendor pre-approval in order to be awarded projects, you can bid without being a qualified vendor. Once you are on the vendor list, you will receive Invitation To Bid (ITB) emails, sent directly to your email and fax by the construction companies. For 80% of these ITB’s you are quoting the job before you can see the building and before any General Contractor has been awarded the contract to build. CleanSnap list projects for bidding that are close to completion of building constructionhttps://constructioncleanpartners.leadpages.co/building-construction-general-contractors-email-lists/

There are so many acronyms in the bid process and so many of them seem interchangeable, half the time I'm not convinced whether the procurement teams themselves knows which one they should be using or what they should be asking. However, yes there technically there can be a difference.Bid Requests, Invitation to Bid (ITB), Invitation to Tender (ITT)This is usually asked for when there is a more defined project and the company knows (or frequently think they know) quite clearly what product or services they want to purchase. They will usually be a lot clearer about the scope of work and the deliverables required.Example: We invite you to bid to be the supplier for an employee engagement survey which will be for 6,000 of our 10,000 employees in 20 countries, in 18 languages. 80% of the surveys will be online but 20% or our employees will need access to a paper version.Request for Proposal (RFP)This is slightly different in the presentation. Here a problem or need and their requirement will be defined in the RFP and it is up to the supplier to make a proposal on how they fulfil this requirement. There is often a lot more vagueness on what the scope might be.Example: We would like to measure our employee engagement levels. We have have 10,000 employees in 30 countries, but we would like to do this in phases. 20% of our employees do not have access to a computer and will need to be provided with an alternative option.The Difference to the ClientAs you can see the criteria for the first is much more specific, whereas in the second it is more open. The proposal could be exactly the same on the other hand they may offer another option to the paper version of the survey (a mobile version for example), they may also pick up on the 'phases' and make suggestions for smaller cheaper surveys, or they may have a completely different idea that doesn't involve traditional surveys.The Difference to the Vendor/SupplierTo the company making the proposal there should be less difference. If you're asked to bid for a specific thing, then yes you should always bid for that specific thing. However if you have a better solution, then that shouldn't stop you from trying to weave that into your proposal just because they haven't asked for alternatives. If you have an opportunity to discuss with the client upfront though, do this.If this is coming from a big company, the chances are you're also working via a procurement team and procurement teams frequently have a generic process that covers everything from finding the best company to supply their toilet paper to the people they're going to choose as their RemCo executive compensation advisors. Don't stop yourself presenting your best solution, just because the procurement team have given their document the wrong name.

I would say speading too much money marketing. I know I got caught in that money pit way too early. This is not to be confussed with - no marketing at all.Our second year in business we signed up for a service that would put us infront of our target market and also send us ITB or Invitation To Bid opportunities (we work in the construction industry) so it seamed like a win win. However, we were inundated with bids more than I could keep track of and efficiently respond to.The second problem was we were being charged reguardless of how many we accessed. The lesson we learnef here was something we did not consider ROI or Return On Investment. ROI is a term that ripples though many industries and can be measured in many different ways but the goal is the same.In this case if we are getting lets say 100 leads or ITB a week and I can write 10 bid responses (on a good day) and we project to get 20 bids out of the 70 we submitted. The sum of the awarded contracts must be greater than the cost per week of the monthly charge of the sercice. Not to mention how much of your time it takes to get a return. We keep the service for several months before we realised it was not a good fit for us at the time.Looking back it gave us great exposure but we needed awarded bids and we did not have processes in place to track CRM or the staff to manage it.The money we spent could have gone to something else, especially when there were other sites that do the same for free. Plpp