The following guide is to assist PennBid Users distinguish between Department Permissions, which are universal to a Users abilities within all projects in their respective organization, and Project Roles.

The new Public (Q&A) Question and Answer feature is now available during the Open phase of a project. Department Users have the ability to publicly share vendor questions and the responses.

If you frequently post similar types of projects, you can Create Project Templates to save time on the initial setup of future projects. Project Templates are without any distinctive project content, such as dates, assigned reviewers, submissions or reporting. 

The Procureware platform will be phased out Fall of 2024. Agencies must extract desired data before that time. The following guide walks you through the process.

This step-by-step guide provides instruction on how to award your project to one or more vendors/bidders for single and multi-contract projects.

This document provides Users with step-by-step comprehensive instructions on creating a new Single Contract project.

This document provides Users with step-by-step instructions on reviewing your new project set up in the Bonfire-powered system.

During your project solicitation, you may need to issue an addenda for vendors/bidders. This guide walks you through the addenda process.

Once your bid has closed, this step-by-step guide walks you through the bid unsealing "Releasing" and how to review and display the results.

Step-by-step instructions on responding to Vendor Questions through Messages and creating a Public Notice response to questions asked.