Publish Bid Invitations.

Hi Guys, need help in the following:
1) What does public bid Inviation mean? My understanding is that we will not have to assign any bidders to the bid invitation and it get published on a portal.
2) How do I publish the bid on a portal - I want to publish the bid invitation on Internet where the suppliers can see the opportunity for businees?
3) How does it work - Do we have to generate a PDF using smart form and then put it on the net some how?
4) How will the vendors respond to the Open Bid Invitation as they are not created in the system and do not have login details?
Kind Regards,
Abdul Kadir Rajbhoy

Hi,
Yes you are right.Public Bid Invitation means that any body can bid to the event.If Bidders are involved then it becomes Restricted Bid Invitation.
In Public Bid Invitation,you need to give link to which the intending bidder need to get registered by answering a questionnaire published by your enterprise.Once his registration is approved by the enterprise, he will be issued a userid & Pwd and he will be in a position to submit Bid response.
This requires the setting up of the Supplier Registration scenario.
Thanks & Regards,
Nagarajan

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Hi Disha and Marcin,
Thank you so much for your prompt replies. I have awarded points. We are using SRM 5.5.
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If you still have any doubts, please upda the threa and do reward points for helpful answers.
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regards
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Hi Sai
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Thank you,
joseph fryda

Hi,
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Regards
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Edited by: Pradeep Purushottam on Sep 11, 2008 8:40 AM

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Regards,

Hi,
Which yout version?
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