This article describes the process to submit your bid for a project through the Bid Room on the Kahua platform. For an introduction to the Bid Room application on the Kahua platform, including how to declare your intent to bid or not bid, refer to Using the Bid Room - Submitting Intent to Bid or Not Bid.
- Open Kahua. If you do not have the webpage bookmarked, you can open the “Your new Kahua account is ready!” email and click Launch Kahua to open the webhost and log in with your email address and password.
- If not currently open, select the Bid Room application and the project you are submitting the bid for.
If the Bid Room application is not open, click on Apps and select it from that menu.
Alternatively, click the messages icon and open the original invitation to open the bid.
- Once the bid is open, select the Bid Form tab and click Edit to enter your bid information.
- Enter the appropriate values on the Bid Sheet section of the Bid Form tab.
- To work in the grid in a larger format, click the Expand icon
. To return to the bid proposal from the larger format grid, click Done.
- In the Substitutions section, enter any substitutions you have. Click Insert to add a number of lines to the grid. To work in the grid in a larger format, click the Expand icon
. To close the larger format grid, click Done.
Note that cost savings should be entered as a negative number!
- Review the Additional Input section for any additional responses required.
- To attach one or more documents, such as a pdf or drawing file, open the Details tab and scroll down to the References section.
- To add a document, select Upload. Locate the file in File Explorer and click Open. The file is added to the section.
- By default, the Description is the name of the file. To modify that value, select the document and click Edit. Make your changes and click Ok.
- To remove a document, select it and click Remove.
- To save your work prior to submitting the proposal, select Save or Save/Close at the bottom of the page.
- Once you have entered all your proposal information, select Submit Proposal at the bottom of the page.
- Your bid proposal is now complete and submitted!
You can make changes and select Resubmit Proposal up until the Bid Due date. The Bid Due date appears on the Details tab of the Bid Proposal.
