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Vendor View is a feature that allows owner-agencies to see their draft and advertised solicitations as a bidder or responder sees them. By switching on Vendor View, you can:
- Review your own bid forms as you draft advertisements
- Troubleshoot your vendor community's inquiries directly from your advertised solicitations
- Gain confidence in building your own bid forms using the Bid Express library of components
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As you draft a solicitation from scratch or from a template, click More > Vendor View to switch your bid forms into a fillable format as though you're the vendor.
By previewing the draft solicitation as a vendor, you can check to make sure that all bid components look and behave the way you want them to before advertising, thus avoiding potential addenda.
Once advertised, if you receive vendor inquiries or would like to double-check your work, go to your advertised solicitation in the Our Solicitations tab and click More > Vendor View.
You can also go to Public Solicitations to find the advertised solicitation, then click the Vendor View button.
Both options will display the bid forms in a fillable format identical to the way a vendor would interact with them.