B2B-Center: Tenders

2026:10 Functions to Optimize Vendor Manual Operations

B2B-Center February 2, 2026 presented additional tools for working with the electronic platform "Tenders 2.0" for suppliers.

Additional functionality automates routine tasks, reducing the time to work with bids by 20% and minimizing the risk of errors.

Updated commercial site B2B-Center - "Tenders 2.0." Offers 10 new features to optimize manual supplier operations, from settlement to comparison with competitors, reduce error risks and control the timing of tender participation.

The functionality covers four key supplier areas at the site: data analysis, process automation, time control, and bid flexibility.

• Data analysis. Built-in tools are available for instant comparison with competitors through useful filters, as well as the ability to select visible and hidden items when filling out and editing a requisition.
• Process automation. The site automates labor calculations and actions. Now available: changing prices immediately by group of items using percentage reduction, calculating the cost of items taking into account additional expenses and currency conversion, auto transfer of data on multi-stage purchases.
• Monitoring of deadlines. Timer up to seconds with counting down to the end of the requisition collection, instant confirmation of the receipt of the requisition by the system, transparency of requirements and purchase conditions before the start of quotation preparation.
• Flexibility of work. The application can be submitted, as convenient, through the web interface of the site or through loading Excel-files with an adaptable template (column sizes, hiding rows, highlighting in color).

We constantly collect feedback from our customers and, using our extensive market experience and technological expertise, adapt our IT solutions to the needs of users, fundamentally changing our experience with the site. Our users perform routine operations in seconds, excluding the human factor in calculations, saving resources and time. As a result, together with our clients, we are taking this qualitative step forward in the development of the procurement function, focusing on the sales strategy and the search for new opportunities, - commented Olga Gromkova, General Director of B2B-Center.

More than 30% of all Russian companies work through the commercial platform of the B2B-Center, both the largest players in the metallurgical, chemical, engineering industries, and representatives of small and medium-sized businesses.

The new functionality of the Tenders 2.0 electronic platform is already available to all registered B2B-Center users. Learn more about working with new tools in the review.

2025: Digital Support Availability

Digital support for decision-making on the choice of suppliers has become available in Tenders 2.0. Now the organizers of procurement procedures will be able to flexibly manage the summing up. The B2B-Center (Center for Economic Development) announced this on April 17, 2025.

Site functionality:

1. Many options for completing a purchase
   You can summarize in any convenient way - through the interface or Excel, select one or more winners, distribute volumes, assign backup suppliers, or reject all requests. Built-in site algorithms will help increase the speed and convenience of selection.
2. Manage the publicity of the results
   Configure what information you need to show the participants after choosing the winner: the list of candidates, the final decision, the names of the winning companies without prices, only price offers or the very fact of summing up the results without detail. Now the buyers themselves will be able to choose the appropriate format based on internal regulations. Timely communication of the results of the purchase maintains the loyalty of potential partners and confidence in customers.
3. Revise purchasing results
   If the selected supplier refuses to enter into a contract, the organizer can change the totals. At the same time, the subscription fee model protects participants from additional costs and allows you to continue participating in other purchases during the paid period, even if the organizer's decision is changed.
4. Without strict
   deadlines An important advantage of the site remains the absence of restrictions on the timing of summing up the results - as before, the organizers can adapt the process taking into account all stages of internal coordination and allocate the necessary time for decision-making. And for vendors, you can specify the planned completion date in the procedure card as a guide.

Modern business requires flexibility at all stages of the procurement process, - said Olga Gromkova, CEO of B2B-Center. - Updating Tenders 2.0 allows you to move away from traditional bureaucratic barriers. The customer can now choose the purchasing completion format, assign a backup vendor, and a new winner if the former has refused. At the same time, all participants in the process remain on an equal footing, and suppliers do not incur unnecessary costs.