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About Soliciting
About Soliciting on Shortlister

Shortlister provides access to a deep pool of potential bidders in your market, based on building type, dollar value, location, and trade classification. Posting your project on Shortlister is the newest way for architects, engineers, general contractors, facility managers, building owners, and homeowners to find the most reasonable value for their construction project.


How It Works

Review how to successfully solicit your project and start immediately receiving bids.

The Shortlist

The "Shortlist" significantly increases your bid pool, expands your professional network and saves you time and money.

Features and Benefits

Learn more about the features and benefits that current solicitors can't stop talking about.

How It Works

Solicitors, like you, register their project free of charge and upload a description and instructions to the Shortlister marketplace. Solicitors may also upload drawings in PDF or DOC formats.

After a project has been successfully uploaded, Shortlister instantly creates an Account Manager for you to monitor your project's bidding process. The Account Manager allows solicitors to review their project specifics, review bids that have been submitted, upload and respond to new information and requests for additional information and manage the entire bid process from a central location.

Your project is immediately accessible through the Shortlister marketplace. Shortlister's marketplace contains a diverse group of bidders that are professional tradesman continuously searching for new work opportunities. 

Shortlister's dynamic database notifies bidders by trade categories you select and allows bidders to perform detailed searches for relevant work opportunities. Such dynamic search functionality and access to a ready-made market of available bidders will allow you to significantly enhance the value of your construction project.

The Shortlist

Shortlister provides solicitors a "Shortlist" of available bidders that actively reviewed and submitted proposals through our site. The "Shortlist" is a simple, easy-to-reference summary of available professionals for you to contact in order to have your construction project started today. 

The "Shortlist" provides you with the bidders name, firm name (if applicable), contact information and bid price in order for you to quickly review and select the professionals you wish to contact. The "Shortlist" significantly increases your bid pool to ensure optimal project pricing, expands your professional network and more importantly saves you time and money while managing the entire process from the comfort of any Internet connection worldwide.

Features and Benefits
  • Instant access to a motivated workforce of professional bidders free of charge;
  • Ease of use enables speed to capturing a bid summary;
  • Instant full market reach ensures bid efficiency;
  • Full-service, turn-key bid solicitation solution without any software to install or download;
  • Monitor and track your project bidding process through a dynamic Account Manager; and
  • Efficient bid management features accessible anywhere at any time.