Welcome to Vederca's Vendor Portal
Vederca connects you with procurement opportunities from leading organisations. This guide explains how the platform works and what to expect at each step.
What You Get
Joining Vederca is free, and gives you three things:
- Analytics: how often your public listing and your profile are viewed, including views by people who are not signed in. Those are counted as totals, without identifying anyone.
- A profile for qualified procurement teams: products, media, clients, case studies, people and certifications, shared with procurement teams Vederca has verified who have accepted the Platform Confidentiality Undertaking and are running a procurement. The people you tick also show on your public listing.
- Procurements to respond to: invitations to private procurements, and open procurements in your sectors once your profile is complete. Responding is always free.
Your Listing in the Vendor Directory
Vederca publishes a vendor directory that anyone can read, signed in or not, and your company may already be in it. Vederca researches each listing from public sources, such as your website, public registers and published news, and checks it regularly. A listing holds only publicly available information: what you sell, where you operate, the customers and partners you name publicly, and dated public news.
Every vendor applies to get listed: claim your listing if your company is in the directory, or create one if it is not. Vederca reviews each application against the Listing Criteria. A claimed listing links to your account once someone in your team confirms an email address on the listing's own website domain, or once Vederca has verified your company. A new listing stays hidden until Vederca verifies your organisation.
The listing is Vederca's research, so you do not edit it directly. If something in it is wrong or out of date, ask for a correction through Support.
The Vendor Journey
Your journey on Vederca follows a clear path from signup to the outcome of each procurement. Here's how it works:
Creating Your Account
Choose Sign up on the sign-in page, then List software. You provide:
- Country and registered organisation name
- Registration number: Australian organisations enter their ABN (and optionally their ACN), which is checked against the business register; other countries use their local registration number
- Work email: an address on your company's domain is quickest to verify, though a personal address is accepted
- Full name and job title
You confirm you are authorised to act for the organisation and accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Vederca then emails a confirmation link: click Confirm email and sign in and your portal opens.
Understanding Roles
Vederca has three vendor roles:
Why Profile Completeness Matters
When the Vederca team proposes vendors for a procurement, or a procurement team adds vendors to one, they search the vendors registered on Vederca by name and filter by:
- Industry
- Sectors served (Government, Healthcare, Financial services and so on)
- Capabilities
- Company size
- Verified vendors only
Verified vendors and vendors with a filled-in profile are listed first. For most procurements the Vederca team proposes a vendor list and the procurement team confirms it, and both read your profile to decide.
What Happens After Signup
Once you've created your account, your Home page shows four setup steps until they are done or your first invitation arrives:
Upload your company logo
Shown on your profile and in procurement evaluations.
Add your first product
Procurement team requirements are matched against your products. Every product needs a name, category and short description.
Complete your company details
Industry, description, website, headquarters, company size, sectors and capabilities. Home lists what is still missing.
Invite your team
Colleagues can help respond to procurements.
Staying On Top Of Things
Invitations, reminders and decisions arrive by email and in the notifications bell at the foot of the sidebar. Anything waiting on you, such as an invitation to answer, an NDA to sign or a profile gap, is counted on the Profile and Procurements items in the sidebar, and each page lists what needs you there with a link straight to it.
What it costs
Vederca never charges vendors to respond to procurements. Every procurement on Vederca is commissioned and paid for by the procurement team.
Vederca Plus is an optional subscription, at US$349 a month, for more room for media and documents (up to 20 photos on each product page instead of 8, 3 videos of up to 60 minutes instead of 1 of up to 30, 5 About section videos of up to 20 minutes, and a data room of 100 documents instead of 25), advanced profile analytics with up to 52 weeks of history, and more Kai on your profile (80 messages a day instead of 5, and a profile review every 14 days, with a follow up, instead of one). Every vendor builds the same profile, case studies, certifications and client references included, on any plan. Kai on your procurements guides you through each procurement, never writes your response, and is the same for everyone. Plus never affects who is invited, how responses are evaluated, or who is recommended.
| Where your organisation is | Vederca Plus, a month |
|---|---|
| Australia | A$500 plus GST |
| United States | US$349 |
| United Kingdom | £279 |
| Countries that use the euro | €319 |
| New Zealand | NZ$549 |
| Singapore | S$469 |
| Every other country | US$349 |
There is no cost to join, list, ask clarification questions, submit, be evaluated or receive feedback on your response where the procurement team agrees to share it. Vederca charges no fee when a contract is awarded and takes no share of its value. Every invited vendor has the same access, and no payment of any kind affects who is invited or how a response is scored.
Next Steps
Now that you understand how Vederca works, it's time to build your profile. Start with your company details and products, then add the evidence you reuse across tenders to your data room.