For Bid Express owner-agencies
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Use the Dashboard, a subsection of the Home tab, to see a visual representation of your solicitation information. You can analyze the data one month at a time and can compare year-over-year information to see trends based on the use of the Bid Express service.
- Solicitations are counted when the deadline falls within the selected dates.
- Submissions are counted when the bids are fetched.
- Dollar amounts are counted when the bids are opened.
Use the Start date and End date fields to set the date range for your bid submissions.
Metrics
You can see a quick overall view of the totals for your solicitations in the metrics displayed at the top of the page. The metrics also note the differences for the same range of days previous to the start date of the date range.
The totals include RFPs, responsive and non-responsive bids, all manual bids, and each bid of a multiple bid submission for both closed and advertised solicitations.
The vendor metric counts each vendor only one time, regardless of how many bids they submitted.
Solicitation Activity
The Solicitation Activity graph shows the total number of bids received and the number of vendors for each month of the specified date range. Each vendor is counted only once per month for the date range, regardless of how many times the vendor submitted bids. Because of this, the vendor total may not match the vendor total in the vendors metric.
Total Dollars
The Total Dollars bar chart displays the bid dollars for each month of the specified date range. The sum of the dollar amounts in this chart matches the Totals metric at the top of the page.
Vendor Location
The vendor location map shows the location of each vendor that bid on the submissions in the date range.
The red indicates more vendors are located in that area of the map. Each vendor is counted only once.
Click and drag the map to move it around. You can also use the CTRL key on your keyboard and scroll to zoom in and out.
Export PDF
Click Export PDF to create a PDF file of the selected date range.
Set the printing options and click Print.