How to use this service
Before a large public contract is signed, somebody has to be able to say whether the price is reasonable. This is where that question is asked, answered and recorded — and this guide explains how, whether you have used the system for years or are opening it for the first time today.
Where to start
- New to the Office, or to any of this? Read what the platform is for, then what happens to a submission. Twenty minutes, and the rest of the system will make sense.
- You work at a ministry, assembly or agency and need to send a contract: recording a submission.
- You work at the Office: what your role lets you do, then assessing and deciding.
- You are holding a certificate and want to know whether it is genuine: checking a certificate.
- Something is not behaving: if something does not work covers what it usually turns out to be.
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What this platform is for
Why the Office exists, what it assesses, and what it issues.
2
What happens to a submission
The journey from arrival to certificate, and where the clock runs.
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What your role lets you do
Why two people signed in side by side see different menus.
4
Signing in
Your address, your password, a six-digit code, and how long you stay in.
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Finding your way around
The sidebar, and how every list works: search, filters, sorting, pages, actions.
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Recording a submission
Entities
For entities: what to send, what is checked, and what comes back.
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Assessing and deciding
The Office
For the Office: intake, comparison, recommendation, decision.
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Certificates, and how to check one
What a certificate says, and how anybody can confirm it is genuine.
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Words used here
Plain meanings for the terms that appear on screen.
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If something does not work
The handful of things that usually turn out to be the cause.