Meet the deadline

The deadline is when your offer has to be in — not when you start working on it.

Submitted means submitted

While your offer is still a draft, you can work on it. Once you have sent it, it can no longer be edited.

What you can do instead is withdraw the offer and submit a new one. That is possible at any time while the deadline is running. So correcting an offer always means: withdraw, revise, submit again.

Plan around that: the last look at your offer belongs before you send it, not after.

Recommendation

Submit a day early anyway. Not because you could still touch it up afterwards — but because you then have a valid offer in the system, and enough time left to go the whole way round through withdrawing and resubmitting if something is wrong. A finished offer with a flaw beats a perfect one that was never sent.

What speaks against the last hour

Large files, slow connections, and a question nobody is left to answer. None of those help you once the deadline has passed.

Then there is the most mundane case of all: the person with the login is out of the office. That is exactly what the deputy in your company profile is for.

Check that it arrived

Do not rely on the feeling of having clicked. Verify that your offer is recorded as submitted and that the attachments are all there. That check takes a minute and it is the only one that counts afterwards.

After the deadline

A missed deadline cannot be undone — not by us either. If it happens, contact the buying organisation; whether and how things continue is their decision and depends on the procurement rules that apply to them.

As the software vendor we cannot extend a deadline, add an offer after the fact, or intervene in a running procedure.