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title: "Bulletins"
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[Tendering] [Admin] 

> 📝 This article applies only to the module **Tendering**.

Bulletins can be used to prepare and modify the organization's internal bulletins.

### Add a new bulletin

You can create a new bulletin from the "Add new notification" section.

 

![Screenshot 2024-10-14 at 09.34.15.png](media://d4a33a1e-4b95-4018-9177-c03d68777210)


 **Define the ‘*****Type’ *****of release and the *****'Publication targets’***

- If you choose: General current bulletin
  - The release can be published on the following channels, where it appears under the "Current" heading
    - Supplier Portal
    - Tendering system, license users
    - Tendering system, small procurement users
- If you choose: Future Procurement
  - The release can be published in the procurement calendar and *Supplier Portal *and appears under the heading "Future procurements".

### Define the dates

- Date of notification (date on which the release is dated)
- Valid from (date and time)
- Valid until (date and time)

### Title and text content

- For each language, its own text content is defined, which are displayed according to the language selection of the user interface.
- In addition to Finnish, bulletins can be prepared in Swedish, Danish and English

### Attachments

- If necessary, define attachment files for the bulletin

**Save or Save and Publish**

- You can save the bulletin without publishing it by selecting "*Save*"
- Save and publish the announcement by selecting "*Save and publish*"
  - After the selection, the announcement goes to the status "*Published*”

 

![Screenshot 2024-10-14 at 09.34.53.png](media://4e57a825-a3c5-47b2-9734-90c30f505786)


  

 **In-progress, Published and Archived**

 The bulletins are displayed on different tabs depending on the mode they are in

- '*In progress*' announcements - Unpublished announcements
- ‘*Published*’ announcements - Current announcements
- ‘*Archived*’ announcements - The deadline for the release has expired

 

<span style="color: #ff5630">**NOTE**</span>! An earlier announcement can be used as the basis for a new announcement with the "Make a new announcement based on this" function.