Introduction

The Vendor Management (VM) Home page is the primary page that contracting specialists, officers, and managers will use to create and track opportunities. This page provides an overview of the Home page and describes the different functionality each section provides.

Create an opportunity

Creating an opportunity requires you to fill out a form with opportunity details, such as a description, instructions, and deadlines. See Creating Opportunities for more information. To create an opportunity, simply click + CREATE OPPORTUNITY.

Opportunity cards

Opportunity cards allow you to view all of your active opportunities and the following information for each:

• Opportunity name
• Status: The status of the opportunity.
  • Active: The opportunity is published and viewable by vendors.
  • Draft: The opportunity is in draft and is not visible to vendors.
• Due date: The date and time proposals are due.
• ID: The unique identifier of that opportunity.
• Description: A description of the opportunity.
• Opportunity Type: The type of opportunity. The options for type are Sources Sought, Presolicitation, Combined Synopsis, Solicitation, Award Notice, Sale of Surplus, Intent to Bundle, Justification, or Special Notice.
• Posted Date: The date the contracting specialist or officer initially posted the opportunity to VM or Acquisition.gov.

To drill down into an opportunity summary page, click the opportunity card to view additional information, including proposals, question documents, and interested vendors.