Create Your Free Account

A free account lets you browse opportunities and get bid alerts. When you’re ready to register as a plan taker or ready to submit to a bid opportunity, you can pick a subscription plan for ongoing access or select Pay-Per-Bid for one-time access.

What to do now
  1. Complete the company details and provide primary contact information below.
  2. Review any optional sections (diverse supplier, categories, agency notifications, additional contacts).
  3. Click Create Account to finish the account setup.
After you create your account
  • You can browse bid opportunities for free, right away.
  • To register or submit to a bid, pick an access option:
    • Subscription plan – Select a plan for ongoing access across agencies to participate in bid opportunities.
    • Pay-Per-Bid– buy access to a single bid opportunity from its bid page (no plan).
    • If the agency covers access, no subscription is required.

For detailed instructions please refer to the Vendor User Guide

Video tutorial

Note:It’s the vendor’s responsibility for maintaining up-to-date and accurate company profile information.

*Some agencies may charge an additional document fee for the purchase of their bid documents. This fee is not part of the Bids & Tenders subscription. 

IMPORTANT - You must enter the LEGAL COMPANY NAME when creating your account.  Once you enter this information and create your profile, the legal company name cannot be changed.  It's imperative the name entered is your Legal Business/Company Name as this is the name that gets entered into contracts if you are successful with the agency.  The legal company name must match what is on your business license, insurance policies, tax forms, work place safety certificates, etc.

Please contact support for request with these changes.  In some cases you may be asked to create another account.

Organization Details

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Certified Diverse Supplier

A certified diverse supplier is any business or enterprise that is certified by a Supplier Certification Organization to be more than 51% (majority) owned, managed and controlled by persons belonging to an equity-seeking community or a social purpose enterprise. These communities include, but are not limited to, women, Indigenous people, visible minorities/racialized people, black people, veterans, persons with disabilities and Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and additional sexually and gender diverse people (2SLGBTQI+) community. Agencies may request proof of Certification during the bidding process.


   

Would you like to be an Emergency Vendor?

In the event of an emergency, for example power outages, extreme weather situation, fires, floods hazardous spills and health some of our Public Agency(s) Procurement Departments are developing a Vendor Emergency List. These agencies are interested in receiving emergency contact information that would be useful during an emergency. This is not a commitment to purchase.

Please provide specific emergency contact information in the contacts section below.

   

Categories

Choose the category(s) from the list below that your company would like to be informed of. We suggest that you utilize the search feature below. For example, if your business is  "Janitorial”, type “janitorial” in the keyword field and your results will be displayed. If you cannot find a specific sub category click the main category to ensure you receive all notifications in that category.
Categories *

No Match

Agency Notifications

Please specify which agencies you would like to receive new bid notifications from.

Agency Notifications

Contact(s)

In order to add a contact to the company profile, click on the “Invite another contact” button and type the contact name and email address of the person you wish to add. Your invited contacts will receive an email invitation from the Bidding System to create their own login to the Bidding System

It is your sole responsibility to keep your additional invited contact(s) current and delete any contacts that you DO NOT want to have ability to submit, edit and/or withdraw your company bid submissions. (for example; delete any contact that has terminated their employment with your company) 


Password Hint
Your password must be at least 6 characters in length, have 2 upper case characters and at least 1 special character (!@#$&*)