What Is Commercial Procurement?

Commercial procurement is the acquisition of goods or services carried out by commercial enterprises.

What Documents Are Needed for Commercial Procurement?

Tender documentation is approved by the initiator of the procurement and is performed in a free-style format. Usually, the package of documents includes such sections as:

• direct invitation to trading;
• commercial inquiry;
• qualification requirements for suppliers;
• project requirements and documentation;
• conditions for applying for participation in the tender;
• regulations of participation for suppliers.

What Can One Buy at a Commercial Auction?

The range of possible purchases is huge:

• consumables, transport, real estate, recyclable materials, etc.
• provision of services and execution of construction, technical, logistics and other works.

How Are Commercial Procurements Carried Out?

To start working with commercial procurements in Ukraine, you need to register on the electronic platform as the organizer of the auction. Having access to your personal account, the user can organize procurements he or she is interested in. This process is intuitive – you just need to fill in all the fields.

Procurement is made in the form of an auction or a request for proposals (market analysis).

After determining the winner, a tender protocol is drawn up, in which all the actual stipulated conditions are fixed. It is a document describing the results of the auction. Terms of its signing are regulated by the tender documentation of the customer.

The last stage is the signing the contract with the winner of the tender.

How Much Does It Cost to Publish a Procurement Tender?

To publish a tender, the customer only needs to order one of five SmartTender tariff plans. Detailed information on all tariffs is available in the comparative table: https://smarttender.biz/en/fees/.

Each customer can additionally expand the functionality provided by the tariff plan. For example, the customization of reports, interface and tendering processes, communication with the ERP-system, or other tools developed personally to conduct tenders. In such cases, tariffs are discussed individually.

Advantages of Cooperation with the SmartTender Platform in Terms of Commercial Procurement

The SmartTender electronic platform offers advanced solutions for commercial procurements. These include simple registration, profitable conditions, an understandable and modern interface, analytics and adaptive tools that make procurement as simple and effective as possible.