E-TENDERING SYSTEM

Abstract

The tenders are the first way for government entities to obtain services and products, and the tender in manual way is consuming effort, time and money, also some buyers can bias to some supplier over the others. As well as known the Sudanese government is going into automate its service (e-Government). This project is aimed to automate the tender process through automate the process of creating, advertising, submitting and selecting the best offer. The system had been divided into 3 parts depending on user type, first type for buyers, they could be able to create new tenders, qualify companies, answer and provide clarification for supplier’s questions, select the winner in tender and advertise the result. The second type for suppliers, they could be able to participate in tenders and ask the buyer about any ambiguous Requirements. The third type for admins, they could be able to manage all tenders in system by accept the new created tenders and accept the registration of new buyers. The system was web based application to provide accessibility and availability to wide range of people in domain to access the website and take the advantage of the system. The system helped and facilitated the tender creation, advertisement, submission, collecting the offers and selection the best offers to save time, efforts and cost. The E-Tender system had been developed to supports the e-Government, increasing the connection and cooperation between government entities and facilitate the government purchase, by saving some effort, time and money and provide some fairness between the suppliers. We recommend to aware the people and units in the domain of the importance of this system.