Throughout the defense industry, thousands of contract opportunities are published every month to inform suppliers of impending competition via a call for initial expressions of interest from potential bidders.

For organisations currently supplying or intending to supply to the defense marketplace, there is no better place to source defense contract opportunities and monitor the contract wins and strategic decisions of your competitors than DCI.

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Defense Contracts International (DCI) is a leading contract information and market intelligence service, and an essential tool for gaining access to the global defense marketplace and winning new tenders. It provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all defense sectors, including homeland security and counter-terrorism.

DCI emails you vital and up-to-the-minute information on new defense business opportunities, matching your organisation´s own unique profile, every working day. You can also search for opportunities 24 hours a day, seven days a week online and translate notices to and from a number of key languages. Furthermore, DCI brings you the latest intelligence on all aspects of the defense marketplace, allowing you to monitor competitor activity.

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DCI is the most comprehensive contract information service available for the defense industry. You will have access to a database of defense–related contract opportunities, possible future purchases and awards from the UK, Europe and worldwide.

We guarantee that no other service can match the number of defense contract opportunities available through DCI every working day.

Every working day, DCI searches through thousands of defense-related contract opportunities from the UK, Europe, USA, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Rim countries as well as from sources such as the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and MOD Defence Contracts Bulletin (MOD DCB), saving you valuable time and helping to ensure your company does not miss out on these potential new business opportunities.

DCI also searches through 1000s of unique sources including periodicals, newspapers and specialist defense websites from around the world.

DCI will provide you with information on the worldwide defense market, including:

• Open contract opportunities
• Sub–contract opportunities
• Possible future purchases
• Contract awards
• Defense news and reports
• Details of future defense planning
• Access to historical defense contract information

DCI provides more information faster, publishing many Defense contract opportunities before they appear anywhere else. UK MOD buyers use BiP Solutions´ Project service to transmit their contract notices electronically to the European Union – meaning subscribers to services such as DCI receive this information first.

DCI provides you with that all-important market intelligence that identifies actual business opportunities issued by government Defense agencies all over the world, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Last year, DCI published over 150,000 contracts from well over 1000 unique sources.

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DCI searches through hundreds of Defense–related sources every working day, matching contract opportunities relevant to your unique business profile, which are then emailed to you on a daily basis.

Yes. When compiling your personal profile you have the option to search for new contract notices and/or contract awards. By selecting contract awards you will be able to identify subcontracting opportunities and monitor the activities of your competitors. To receive both contract notices and contract awards, select ´both´ in the ´contract types´ section of ´my profile´. If you choose to receive both contract notices and contract awards, these will be divided into separate categories within your results.

Yes. Using the contract search service within the Members Area you can search for contracts published in the past three months. You can also access your Profile History to view contracts previously sent. In addition we offer an archive service (upgrade required) to view contracts from a specific year.

Receiving your contracts and market intelligence direct via the DCI service is easy. Every working day before 10am, you will receive an email with an attachment containing all new defense contract notices that match your profile and a separate email with an attachment containing all market intelligence information matching your market monitor profile.

A DCI profile consists of three main criteria: Keywords, CPV Codes and Countries.

Keywords

To reinforce CPV codes, you can enter key words and phrases applicable to your products and services. These words can either be complete words or open-ended ie: comput will find contracts containing the word: computer, computers or computing. When searching for a phrase, again you can search for a complete phrase or leave the last word of the phrase open-ended ie: Management Consult will find contracts containing the phrase: Management Consultancy, Management Consultants or Management Consulting. Smaller words that can be contained in part of a larger word (eg bus, car, pen) should be entered into the Exact Keywords area of the profile to prevent possible receipt of irrelevant contract leads.

CPV Codes

On submission, you will have chosen the Industry sector(s) relevant to your company´s business requirements. Each industry sector has had Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes (used to classify contract requirements) mapped to them, thus populating your contract alert profile with the relevant CPV codes within that sector.

Countries

From the drop down list, select the country or countries you wish to receive contracts from. If you do not select any countries you will receive contracts from all countries by default.

If you want to receive contracts from a certain country or region, you first need to select the relevant geographical area (e.g. Asia, Europe, UK etc). By clicking on the 'add all' option, you will ensure that you receive relevant contracts from ALL countries and/or regions in the selected geographical area.

If you only want to receive contracts from certain INDIVIDUAL countries within a particular geographical area, click on the relevant country in the list and select 'add country'. If selecting more than one country from a particular area, hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard whilst selecting additional countries.

You may update your profile online adding keywords or individual CPV codes using the edit contract profile function. You may amend your profile when ever you wish completely free of charge.

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The DCI Daily Email Alert service delivers Defense contract opportunities matching your organisation´s unique profile every working day. It also contains information on possible future purchases, giving you advance notification of Defense–related tenders and contracts, as well as contract award notices and sub–contract opportunities.

Amending your DCI alert profile

Refining your profile regularly will ensure that you receive relevant contract opportunities, assisting you to stay one step ahead of your competitors. Once logged into DCI Online at www.dcicontracts.com, you can amend your profile at any time and at no additional cost by visiting the Profile Management area in the Activity Centre.

Yes. You can search for abbreviations, acronyms and company names as well as exact keywords. This facility is case-sensitive. These words cannot be left open-ended and DCI will only search for exact matches. If you were to insert the word ´pen´ it would exactly match the word ´pen´ and not find contracts which contain words such as ´penicillin´, ´pending´, ´penetration´ and ´pension´. By inserting a company name you will be notified of contracts that have been awarded to your competitors.

NB: Please ensure your selection is as specific as possible. It is not advisable to use words such as ´service´, ´information´, ´journal´, ´maintenance´, etc. These words are too generic and will provide you with irrelevant information. Exact keywords which are contained within your profile will be highlighted in your results.

Country lists

Widen or narrow your search area to the countries you specifically wish to receive opportunities from.

Keywords and phrases

Check the keywords and phrases you have entered into your profile & do they still fit with your business requirements? Maybe you have expanded into other areas; if so, you will need to update your profile to track other opportunities. In addition we recommend that you check recently published contract opportunities to ensure that you have picked keywords in line with the buyers´ requirements. Updating your keywords and phrases on a regular basis will minimise the risk of missing lucrative contract opportunities.

CPV codes

If you have entered new keywords or phrases remember to then also search for the relevant CPV codes and paste them into your profile. Again, check past notices and add any relevant CPV codes to your profile.

Yes. DCI filters out contracts which are not relevant, and allows you to input keywords, allowing you to spend more time concentrating on the contract opportunities, which are going to win you new business. For example, you may work within the manufacturing industry and have the keyword ´manufacturing´ contained within your profile but you may not deal with the manufacture of weapons. By including ´weapons´ in the Omit Keywords section, you will only receive contracts related to manufacturing that do not contain the keyword ´weapons´.

Yes, with DCI not only can you elect to receive notices of specific supplies, services and works opportunities, you can also elect to receive notices from specific organisations. You can even ask DCI to notify you of contracts that have been awarded to your competitors, thereby providing you with a unique market intelligence service.

With DCI, you not only receive a daily email alert containing new Defense–related contract/tender opportunities but also have 24/7 direct online access via the DCI website to all of BiP Solutions´ contract announcements, allowing you to search and track thousands of live contract and tender opportunities at no extra charge. You can search through open contracts, awarded contracts, suppliers, issuing authorities, issue dates, locations and many more search terms. Once found, notices can be viewed, printed or stored.

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CPV (Common Procurement Vocabulary) codes have been developed by the European Union specifically for public procurement. Their main purpose is to help procurement personnel to classify their contract notices consistently and correctly and to help suppliers find the notices which are of interest to them by using a standardised

Using the searchable database, you select CPV codes relevant to your products and services and paste them into your profile. You can conduct as many searches as necessary. Please remember to paste your selected codes after each search. CPV codes which are contained within your profile will be highlighted in your results.

Yes. To reinforce CPV codes, you can enter additional keywords and phrases applicable to your products and services. These words can either be complete or open-ended, e.g. ´comput´ will find contracts containing the word ´computer´, ´computers´ or ´computing´. When searching for a phrase, you can again search for a complete phrase or leave the last word of the phrase open-ended, e.g. ´Management Consult´ will find contracts containing the phrase ´Management Consultancy´, ´Management Consultants´ or ´Management Consulting´.

If you want to find exact words only, e.g. contracts which contain the words ´Management´ and ´Consultancy´ (but not together as a phrase) then you would need to insert these words individually under Exact Keywords. Keywords and phrases which are contained within your profile will be highlighted in your results.

Yes, simply enter your competitors´ names in the Exact Keywords section. Please remember to include any abbreviations.

Yes, simply select those countries you want to receive contract notices from. You can choose from the list provided and make your choice as limited or as comprehensive as you wish. If there is a country which does not appear in the list provided, you can enter it as a keyword.

Yes, you can scroll through the contract notices (both open and awarded) contained within your profile by using the Next and Previous links.

Yes, you can print individual contract notices (both open and awarded) which have been issued in your daily email alert. Simply click on the Print Online link to go to the individual contract where you can print in the normal manner.

To ensure that your profile is working for your organisation, you should review the statistics which are contained at the bottom of every email that is dispatched to you. The statistics will show you how often keywords or CPV codes are included in the contracts delivered to you; you can then, if necessary, amend your profile accordingly.

You can also go online to analyse your daily alert contract statistics through My DCI. By examining the results and identifying trends you can collate the information required to adjust your profile and improve the volume and relevancy of contracts received.

Following completion of your DCI profile, you will receive your contract opportunities as HTML files. However, you may choose to receive these as text only or zipped–HTML. Please click on Preferences within your profile if you wish to change delivery format.

Yes. You may specify that contract announcements matching your profile be emailed to more than one email address within your organisation. Additional email addresses will be charged at £100 plus VAT in order to cover the licence extension. Should you wish to set up an additional email, please choose the upgrade option within My Account.

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Yes. You may choose to build more than one profile for your organisation. An additional profile allows you to create a different email profile to your existing one. All additional profiles are emailed to the same email address as your master account. Additional profiles can be created at a charge of £275 plus VAT. Should you wish to set up an additional profile, please choose the upgrade option within My Account.

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Yes. You may choose to have more than one account for your organisation. An additional account allows you to create a different email profile to your existing one. All additional accounts are emailed to a different email address as your master account. Additional accounts can be created at a charge of £350 plus VAT. Should you wish to set up an additional account, please chose the upgrade option within my account.

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Yes, after registration, you will be issued with a unique username and password. This will allow you to access your profile and can be updated when necessary. You can amend any aspect of your profile except your company name and your email address.

Yes, as a DCI subscriber, you will have access to FREE support for both technical and contract information assistance, and we will even help you to build your profile.

Assistance

If you require any further information or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the DCI team on 0845 270 7092 or email dci@bipsolutions.com

If you have forgotten your password, please enter your email address and a temporary password will be emailed to you. You will then be asked to log into the site and choose your own password.

Your first year of subscription to DCI will cost £760 plus VAT, which is a saving of £200 on the normal cost of an annual subscription. To view or upgrade your account at any time, choose the option Manage My Profile and choose Current Subscriptions or Upgrade.

To subscribe to an annual subscription of DCI, please visit: www.dcicontracts.com/DCI/signup.html

Yes, we offer you the opportunity to receive DCI FREE for one month so that you may evaluate the benefits of this unique service.

To subscribe to an annual subscription of DCI, please visit: www.dcicontracts.com/DCI/signup.html

Yes, for further information or any assistance, please email sales@bipsolutions.com or call the Sales Department on 0845 270 7065.

Should you wish to subscribe to DCI, you may do so online at www.dcicontracts.com or call 0845 270 7092 to speak to one of our advisors who will be more than happy to help. You can choose to take a one–month free trial; should you wish to proceed without a free trial, you will receive 15 months subscription for the price of 12.

For further information on DCI Special Offers and Value Added services, please visit:
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As a DCI customer your username and password will provide you with a free registered company profile on the BiP Select national pre–qualification service. BiP Select is a service hosted within the Delta e–tendering suite at www.delta–ets.com. Suppliers can choose to apply for either Select Certify or Select Accredit status. To achieve Select Certify status, suppliers complete an online self–certification questionnaire. To achieve Select Accredit status, suppliers are fully assessed by a third party to achieve full accreditation.

In addition to our Help and FAQs sections we have included a user–friendly online demonstration of the site. This demonstration will illustrate the process of basic site navigation, registering, searching for contracts and building your unique profile.