Vendor approval
What opens when a person has read your W-9, business license and general liability certificate
Every open RFP on VendoRFP is listed for every vendor. This page says exactly what a vendor sees before a person here has read its three documents, what opens after, and what that review says about insurance.
Read the neutrality ruleBefore and after
After the review
Before the review
A vendor browses every open RFP and every customer with the names, logos, titles, descriptions and exact sizes held back on the server. The city, the state, the trade, the season, the budget and the size band are shown; nothing that identifies one community is sent.
After the review
A person at VendoRFP reads your W-9, business license and general liability certificate; after that you see every customer's name, can apply, and can use the RFP and proposal tools — and each RFP still takes a proposal only from a company whose insurance meets what that community set.
Who lifts it
The person who verifies the last of the three documents is the whole gate. Nobody presses approve; the rule reads the three rows. Rejecting any of them, or the general liability certificate running past its date, closes the names again the same moment.
Insurance
What the review says about insurance
Approval reads one insurance document: a general liability certificate that has not run out. Workers' comp, commercial auto and professional liability are asked for only by a community that set a requirement for them; on its RFPs a proposal needs that certificate read by a person here and the vendor's stated coverage to meet the figure the community set. VendoRFP does not certify that a policy is in force; the community confirms that with the carrier before it contracts.
How this is checked
A script makes a vendor with no documents and reads the marketplace as it: no firm name, no community name, and an RFP that refuses to open. It uploads its three documents, is still refused, has an admin verify them, and reads the names. It runs against the live database, and the sentences on this page are pinned to it by a test that fails the build if either changes on its own.