Looking around without an account

You can look around the workspace before you sign up. Press Explore BidNomy on the homepage or the pricing page, or go straight to a contract, agency or supplier page from a search engine or a shared link. You use the same pages a member does. Log in and Start free trial sit in the top-right corner instead of your name.

What is open

• Home shows the latest figures for Australian government work, and the four newest contracts, forward plans and grant opportunities. Each of those rows opens its record.
• Opportunities, Market intelligence and Government open on their summaries, with real figures, charts and top lists. The jurisdiction chips work, so you can switch between all jurisdictions, the Commonwealth and each state or territory. So do tabs that change what the summary counts, such as Open and Closed. The open list pages are Open tenders, Coming up, Panels, Grants, Contracts, Suppliers, Market size, Market share, Expiring contracts, Agencies, Budget programs and Categories.
• Record pages open for contracts, standing offers, forward plans, grant opportunities and forecasts, and agencies. A supplier has its own page when it is a company with at least A$1 million of Commonwealth contracts and at least one contract in the last five years. Other suppliers show by name on the records they appear in.

How recent the contract records are

Contract pages open for contracts that started in the last two years. An older contract shows Older contract, start a plan to see it, even from a direct link. Summary figures and charts still count contracts of every age, because they are totals rather than records.

What asks you to sign in

• Tender notices. Open tenders shows counts, categories, buyers and closing weeks, but not the notices themselves. A tender notice's page, Commonwealth or state, asks you to sign in.
• Search, saved searches and alerts.
• Everything below a summary: the full list of rows, filters, sorting, Save, Share and exports. Pressing one opens a short pop-up that says what the feature does, with Start free trial.
• Bower Chat and Help show a sign-in card.
• Your account: profile, team, billing and notifications.

A page that asks you to sign in shows Start free trial and Log in. Either one brings you back to the page you were on.

Example Co

Some pages only make sense for a company that already uses BidNomy. On those pages you see a finished example for Example Co Pty Ltd, a made-up company. Each example is marked Example, with the date it was written. None of it is a real company's data.

• Home shows Example Co's new matches, new results for its alerts, contracts ending at the agencies it follows, and its first Bower briefing.
• Bower: example bid documents, files, automations and memory, in the real page layouts.
• Business development: the dashboard, bids (each with its go/no-go analysis), the pipeline board, account plans and tasks.

Buttons that would create, edit, download or run something open the pop-up instead.

Starting a free trial

Press Start free trial anywhere, in the top-right corner, on a sign-in card or in a pop-up. Signing up starts a seven-day trial of Pro with no card (Plans and the trial). When you finish signing up you come back to the page you started from, with everything on it open.