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AKF-LAB Marketplace How it works?
At first, laboratories and companies (organizations) must register to access the site. The registration form will collect user’s relevant information in order to build an accurate data base, a perfect basis for tailoring service offers and demands in an online tendering process.
The system works by allowing clients to create a tender consisting of one or a group of testing requirements or end-point determinations. The tender is then added to a list of active tenders and testing service providers can then make offers for the tender.
Once the bidding process has finished, the client can then review the offers made for their tender and make the best decision. After choosing an offer initial contact is established between the laboratory and, when the laboratory confirms the offer and the client can ask for any information regarding accreditations procedures etc… At this point the client should confirm the acceptance of the offer if it meets their needs or alternatively return to the list of bids.
The bidding process is anonymous, thus ensuring that other competing laboratories are not able to associate prices, capacities and time-scales directly with a particular compettitor.
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