NUPCO award results: where they are published and how to read them
NUPCO publishes the results of its tenders as award-result files listing, for each item, the winning vendor, the manufacturer, the country of origin and the catalog number, usually as a preliminary result and then a final one. Prices are rarely published, but the files still show who wins what, with which product.
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What sets NUPCO apart from many buyers is that it publishes the result of every item: who won, with which product, from which country. A supplier who reads these files regularly knows the competitors, their manufacturers and their shares before pricing the next bid. This page explains what the files hold, what they do not, and how to use them.
What NUPCO publishes
Each tender's result comes out as a file (usually a PDF) holding a table with one row per tender item. The usual columns:
| Column | What it means |
|---|---|
| Item number and material code | The item as it appeared in the tender's item list, with its fixed NUPCO code and description. |
| Vendor (name and vendor number) | The company the item was awarded to. The vendor number is stable even when the name is spelled differently from one file to the next. |
| Manufacturer and country of origin | Whose product won and from where; the two most telling facts about the competition on a code. |
| Catalog number | The manufacturer's exact product, which lets you match the result against your catalog or a competitor's. |
| Quantity and price | Quantity appears sometimes; the unit price is very rarely in the published announcements. |
Preliminary, then final
A result is usually published twice: a preliminary award after evaluation, which opens a window for objections and review, then a final award that fixes the result and precedes the purchase orders. The two can differ on specific items, so rely on the final one when it exists and read the preliminary one as an early signal of who leads on each code.
The markers that mean "not awarded"
Not every row in a result file is an award. In place of a vendor name you will see phrases such as CANCELLED (the item was dropped, sometimes with a reason such as "no longer needed"), NO QUOTATION (nobody bid), NO ACCEPTED OFFERS (suppliers bid, none was accepted) and HOLD (the item is on hold). These rows matter as much as the awards: an item with no accepted offers in one tender is an opening in the next.
How to use the results
- Know your competitors on each code. Group results by material code to see who wins it repeatedly and with which manufacturer; a code the same vendor wins every time has a settled price and an entrenched supplier, while a code three vendors trade wins on is open.
- Know which manufacturers the awards favor. If your manufacturer keeps losing a code to another, the problem may not be your price.
- Track the country of origin. The share of awards going to locally made versus imported products on a code tells you how much local content weighs there.
- Join results to prices where they exist. Some tenders had priced result sheets in the past, and platforms like ProcDuck combine those prices with the announcements in one record searchable by material code.
The results in ProcDuck
ProcDuck archives NUPCO's award announcements and turns them into a record searchable by code, vendor, manufacturer or tender number, with priced rows told apart from unpriced ones (a missing price shows as a dash, never as zero). The vendor map draws who won what with which manufacturer across every award, and can focus on one vendor, manufacturer or code to show its network. See price history in the manual.
Frequently asked questions
Does NUPCO publish award prices?
Rarely. The published award announcements name the vendor, manufacturer, country of origin and catalog number, and give the unit price only in a few cases. Prices mostly come from older result sheets or from suppliers' own records.
What is the difference between a preliminary and a final award?
The preliminary one is published after evaluation and opens a period for objections and review; the final one fixes the result and precedes the purchase orders. They can differ on specific items, so the final one is the reference.
What does NO ACCEPTED OFFERS mean in NUPCO results?
That suppliers bid on the item and none of their offers was accepted, so it was not awarded. It differs from NO QUOTATION, which means nobody bid at all.
How do I find out who won a given material code before?
Search the code in past award announcements. In ProcDuck the code's award history is shown on the product linked to it and on every tender that contains it, and the code can be searched in the price history.