The pioneer mercantile information site

According to existing government regulations in our country, all contracts in the public sector estimated at Tk 10,000 or above require competitive bidding achieved generally through responses to tenders advertised in the media and the print media in Bangladesh exceeds a count of a hundred. Thus securing all daily newspapers is too much of an effort for any business enterprise.

This site has made a successful effort to collect all invitations to tenders published in the daily newspapers, making it possible for business administrators to access current information at the stroke of a few keys, reducing the chance of missing out the competitor to nearly zero.

The site categorises the tender invitations from construction to procurement, enlistment, consultancy, evaluation, survey, auction, sales, supply and other business opportunities. The user also has the option to browse each category to find information on the organisation, eligibility, deadline, availability and related information.

Many other useful features including a search engine to browse through the companies submitting tenders are available with this site. Sub-categories such as 'notices added today', 'submission deadlines within 24 hours or 7 days' sure reduces an user's effort to attain a particularly effective tender through the site.

The site administrators specify how they make every attempt in the shortest time to enlist all the information collected from the daily press into the website database so that a user has access to all the data by afternoon the same day.

The services of the site come with a deposit fee and a user fee of Tk 300 each a month. However, the user may choose to pay for a collective number of months in advance and save a few hundreds. Members already range in double digits.

The site also offers a free-of-charge demo (demonstration) page where it lists five of the major tender categories and the user may as well take full advantage of the information stored. Featured advertisements from 'google' and an associated search engine will further enhance a user's experience through the site.

Dr Abdus Sattar Syed, pioneer and proprietor of the site, gladly states how the government has given office space at the BSRS Bhavan at a low rate. Facilities such as essentially uninterrupted power and a broadband net connection have yet made things easier for the company, which currently holds about 10 employees working on regular basis.

The site also offers advertisement facilities, where the advertisements are customized according to the client. "Our major sustaining revenue will come from private advertisements, just like a newspaper," said Dr Sattar, who has high hopes for the future of the site and its prospects.