You will receive an invite to the sourcing event via email including a URL to access the browser-based Archlet app.​

Enter the email address used in your invitation and set a password.​

Or click on "Forgot Password".

The first screen you will see after logging into Archlet, will be the Projects Dashboard.​ Select the correct project card and accept the gating step, if one has been set by the Sourcing Organization.

To accept the gating step, download the preliminary documents, review them, and agree to the terms before gaining access to further project details.

After accepting the gating step, you will also find more supporting information and files on this Event Overview page.

​Download supporting files in the Documents section - if they have been made available by the sourcing organization that invited you.

Upload any files that you want to share with the sourcing organization in the Documents area.

In the project overview, click on the Go to Questionnaire button:

You can enter your answers directly in the app online or complete the Excel template offline.

Fill out the questionnaire online by entering your answers directly in the designated fields.

And then click on "Submit Response" at the bottom of the page.

In the questionnaire, click "More" on the right, then select "Upload answers."

In the message that pops up, click on "Download template" next to Step 1.

Fill out the Excel template without changing the structure and follow the below steps if a document upload is required.

Return to the Questionnaire section and:

When documents are required in the questionnaire to be uploaded you'll see this note "Go to Archlet app to answer this question by uploading your file and optional comments" in the "Your response" column.

To upload them:

1. Return to the Questionnaire page,

2. Go to the corresponding question with the document upload request and

3. Drag and drop the required documents into the blue field below the question.

4. Click on "Submit response" at the bottom of the page

❗If you do not click "Submit response", your answers will not be visible to the sourcing manager.

Before the round deadline has passed, you can still edit your answers. To do so, click the button Withdraw answers to resubmit in the Questionnaire section.

In the project overview, click "Go to bid sheet" on the right side.

You can either submit your bids directly online or complete the Excel Bid Sheet template.

Enter your bids directly in the designated fields as shown below.

Then click on "Save".

If there are no errors in your bids, green check marks will appear in the status column. You can then click "Submit bid sheet"

Otherwise, an error message will appear.

If you want to work offline on your bids and submit them as an Excel file, follow these steps:

First, click "Upload Excel with Bids"

In the pop up window, click "Download template" next to Step 1.

An Excel file will be downloaded and contains the bid sheet of the sourcing organization.

(1) Make sure to familiarize yourself with the structure of the table if there's a separate worksheet or a legend on top.

(2) Enter information that is only required as one value in the cells (usually above the table)

(3) Fill in your quotes in the columns that are color-coded as supplier input.

Return to the Bid Sheet window and open the pop up by clicking on "Upload Excel with bids".

The online bid sheet will be automatically filled out and checked for errors.

If there are no errors, you will be able to submit your bids by clicking "Submit bid sheet".

❗ Detected any errors? Find out how to resolve these in our Common Errors guide.