Search Within a Monitoring Inbox
- Andrew Colella
Analytics
It is possible to search and filter within the monitoring inbox to identify the most relevant business opportunity matches. By searching within your monitoring inbox you will find matches more tailored to your profile, making the results more relevant than those you will find in the Explore search, read more below.
You can search keywords, apply filters and set time frames individually or as a combination with each other.
Search keywords
To begin looking for potential opportunities, enter in the keywords for the types of matches you would like to see.
Enter the keywords into the search bar.
The results of the search will show matches where the keyword(s) have been included in the title, summary or tender information.
Search within a time frame
It is also possible to set a time frame to filter the business opportunity matches that fall within specific dates of when they were published, or when the deadline for bids will be.
Use filters
Click on “More filters” to filter your search even further.
Include inactive tenders: Check this box if you would like to include all inactive tenders; these are tenders that are considered inactive 30 days after the deadline or, if it does not have a deadline, 30 days after the publication date.
Monitoring profile: If you have set up multiple monitoring profiles, you can choose to filter your matches so that you only receive hits that match a specific profile you have set up.
Location: Select the location from which you would like to get tenders from. If you select a parent region i.e. the country of delivery, all city locations will be automatically selected. Note that the available location options depend on your subscription. You should contact your organisation administrator if you require more permissions.
Tender status: Choose whether you would like to see tenders with no deadlines, a deadline that has already passed or tenders for which a contract has been awarded.
Opportunity types: Choose the type of opportunities you would like to explore from Concession, Contract and/or Procurement Plan. Read more about these here.
Deadline: Any tender with a deadline date within your selected date range will be included in the results. You can either enter specific dates for this range or select one of the quick options listed. This automatically updates the time frame shown on the main page.
Publication date: Any tender that has been published within your selected date range will be included in the results. Again, similar to the deadline filter, you can either enter specific dates for this range or select one of the quick options listed. This automatically updates the time frame shown on the main page.
Original Language: You can choose to filter the tenders based on the language it was originally published in.
Categories (CPV): To be even more specific, you can filter the matches based on CPV codes. Click on “add more categories” to select one or multiple CPV codes. Remember, CPV is a catalogue of over 9000 product and service codes and are used as keywords to make it easier to identify a specific product or service.
How is this different to Explore?
You will notice that the monitoring inbox is almost the same as the Explore page. However, the key difference is that, in the monitoring inbox, you can set filters and search for opportunities that directly match any monitoring profiles you have created. In contrast, Explore searches within all live tenders. Therefore the results of searching within the monitoring inbox are more relevant to you. You can learn more about Explore search.