Bid Management

The Kahua Bid Management suite of apps supports the bidding process from end to end, including the creation bid solicitations, inviting bidders, tracking bid responses (will bid or will not bid), managing bid Q&A, tracking proposals, and processing the awarded bidder’s proposal into a Contract.

Important things to know about the Bid Management apps in Kahua include the following:

  • Depending on your settings, bid solicitations can be sent to companies who already have a Kahua domain or do not already have one. If the company does not currently have a Kahua domain, you can invite them to Kahua.

  • Invited bidders receive an email requesting their bid response and can respond directly from email without logging into Kahua.

  • You can use Kahua to manage a public bidding process.

  • To review the bid documents before responding, invited bidders will be required to either log into their existing Kahua account, or to create a new basic Kahua account (no up-front license fees).

  • Bidders use the free Bid Room app in their domain to review and respond to invitations. For more information on using the Bid Room app, refer to Using Bid Room.

How to . . .

Bid solicitations, including public bids, are created and managed in the Solicitations sub-application. For more information, refer to Bid Solicitations.

Bidders are invited and managed on the Bidders tab of the Solicitations sub-application. For more information, refer to Bidders tab.

Questions from bidders are received in the Q&A sub-application. For more information, refer to Bid Q&A.

Proposals are received and managed in the Proposals sub-application. For more information, refer to Bid Proposals.