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Publish Notices on

CF & TED & FTS

Date: April 2019

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Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3

Publishing Notice from RFx ..................................................................................................................... 3

Publishing Ad-hoc notices ....................................................................................................................... 8

Notices List View ................................................................................................................................... 11

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Introduction

SourceDogg allows user to publish various types of notices to Contracts Finder, TED and FTS services

through an interface in the SourceDogg application. The user is able to publish ad-hoc notices that

are not related to any current RFx events run on SourceDogg or can create notices using the details

in the RFx being published on SourceDogg.

Publishing Notice from RFx

If you want to publish an Opportunity notice to either the Contracts Finder, TED and FTS services

while concurrently publishing your RFx event on SourceDogg, you must select the TED, FTS and/or

Contracts Finder checkboxes on the Request Details tab of the RFx.

First, you need to select the Open Request checkbox in the Publications Settings of the RFx. This will

activate further options where you can select TED, FTS and/or Contacts Finder.

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Once this has been completed, populate the rest of the content of the request and add suppliers

(optional as the request will be ‘Open’ and any supplier can join once they click on the link published

to TED, FTS or CF services.)

When you publish the request, the system then automatically creates draft notices for respective

services and shows the link to these in SourceDogg. The link is displayed on the Request Details tab,

as per the picture below.

Draft notices for a particular RFx can be accessed directly by clicking on this link. This will open the

notice in a new browser window. The draft notice will be pre-populated with the details contained in

the RFx event such as the addresses, links, dates, etc.

Note: The amount of information to be entered depends on the type of notice and reflects the

requirements of Contracts Finder, TED or FTS services respectively.

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Fields that are mandatory are marked in red. The notice content can be saved at any time if needed

by clicking on the blue “Save Details”.

An example of this section with the information entered:

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Once all mandatory information is added, you can publish the notice.

To publish the notice, click on the ‘Publish’ button. This will display a window summarizing all the

details of the notice. To confirm, click on the Publish button once again.

If the application detects any missing fields, and an error message will be displayed and the user

must edit the data as required to progress.

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If the notice is successfully published, the status changes and system also displays a link to the

newly-created notice. In the case of the TED service, the link to the notice will be added within 24

hours.

An example of a published Contracts Finder Noticed:

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Publishing Ad-hoc notices

You can also use the SourceDogg platform to publish types of notices outside RFx workflow process -

e.g. Prior Information Notice. This notice would not have a matching RFx event created at the time

of publishing.

To create an ad-hoc notice, click on Publish Notices in the ‘Resources’ menu available at the top of

any page on SourceDogg. Alternatively, you can add the Publish Notices tile to your home screen.

(for details on how to do this please click here)

Then select ‘Create Notice’ in the top right-hand corner of the page. This will open the ‘Notice

Details’ page, where you need to select the service you are publishing to and the type of notice you

want to create. Then you can select if you want to create a brand new notice or use one of the

existing RFx event’s details.

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After you select these three settings for your notice, you need to click on the ‘Save Details’ button

on the right, which will create a draft notice and allow you to fill-in the required details.

In the next step fill all the mandatory information indicated by the red outline of the textboxes.

When finished, click on the Publish button. Your draft notice can be saved at any stage during the

completion of the notice by clicking on the “Save Details” button.

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Notices List View

When opening the main notices view, the following is the information displayed on the screen:

1. Notice Type - indicates the type of notice. As of July 2017, the following notices are available

on SourceDogg: Contacts Finder - Opportunity and Award notices. TED - Prior Info Notice,

Opportunity, Award, and Notice for Changes (Corrigendum).

2. Title - this is the title of the notice, it is editable in the notice content.

3. CF / TED / FTS - this indicates whether the notice is created for Contracts Finder, FTS or TED.

4. Link to RFx - if the notice is created from a RFx event, a link to the RFx is added. If this is an

ad-hoc notice, no link is displayed.

5. Link to Contracts Finder / TED / FTS - a link to the notice on a 3rd party website is added. For

Contracts Finder this is available immediately, in case of TED notices it might take up to 24

hours for the link to be displayed.

6. Status - shows the status of the notice, e.g. Draft or Published.