Create Your Free Account

A free account lets you browse opportunities and get bid alerts for categories you select and allow your vendor profile to be viewed by the agencies you select.

To submit a bid for an opportunity, you will have to become a subscriber.

When you’re ready to register as a plan taker or ready to submit to a bid opportunity, you can pick a subscription plan for ongoing access or select Pay-Per-Bid for one-time access.

What to do now
  1. Complete the company details and provide primary contact information below.
  2. Review any optional sections (diverse supplier, categories, agency notifications, additional contacts).
  3. Click Create Account to finish the account setup.
After you create your account
  • You can browse bid opportunities for free, right away.
  • To register or submit to a bid, pick an access option:
    • Subscription plan – Select a plan for ongoing access across agencies to participate in bid opportunities.
    • Pay-Per-Bid– buy access to a single bid opportunity from its bid page (no plan).
    • If the agency covers access, no subscription is required.

Note:It’s the vendor’s responsibility for maintaining up-to-date and accurate company profile information to allow system generated email communications to be received throughout the bidding process.  The Region of Durham is not responsible for messages that are undeliverable, have an out of office notification, or otherwise do not reach the bidder. 

For detailed instructions please refer to the Vendor User Guide

Organization Details

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Certified Diverse Supplier

A certified diverse supplier is any business or enterprise that is certified by a Supplier Certification Organization to be more than 51% (majority) owned, managed and controlled by persons belonging to an equity-seeking community or a social purpose enterprise. These communities include, but are not limited to, women, Indigenous people, visible minorities/racialized people, black people, veterans, persons with disabilities and Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and additional sexually and gender diverse people (2SLGBTQI+) community. Agencies may request proof of Certification during the bidding process.


   
Would you like to be an Emergency Vendor? In the event of an emergency, for example power outages, extreme weather situation, fires, floods hazardous spills and health emergencies, the Region of Durham  is developing a Vendor Emergency List.

The Region of Durham  is interested in receiving emergency contact information that would be useful during an emergency. This is not a commitment to purchase. Please provide specific emergency contact information in the contacts section below.
   

Categories

Choose the category(s) from the list below that your company would like to be informed of. We suggest that you utilize the search feature below. For example, if your business is  "Janitorial”, type “janitorial” in the keyword field and your results will be displayed. If you cannot find a specific sub category click the main category to ensure you receive all notifications in that category.
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No Match

Agency Notifications

Please specify which agencies you would like to receive new bid notifications from.

Agency Notifications

Contact(s)

Adding a Contact

In order to add a contact to the company profile, click on the “add another contact” button and type the contact name and email address of the person you wish to add. Your invited contacts will receive an email invitation from the Bidding System to create their own login to the Bidding System.  If you are an invited company contact, it is imperative that you create your login from the link contained in the email invitation. Do not go directly to the Bid Opportunity website and create a separate vendor account. It is your sole responsibility to keep your additional invited contact(s) current and delete any contacts that you do not want to have access to your profile.

Password Hint
Your password must be at least 6 characters in length, have 2 upper case characters and at least 1 special character (!@#$&*)