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title: "Linking a Bid to Participating Parties"
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In this support article, you will find the steps to manually link a bid to participating parties.

**Tender** refers to a submitted bid or proposal, and **Participating Party** refers to the bidder who has submitted a bid, individually or jointly.

> ⚠️ **Please note**: To perform this action, you need to first go to the **Results** tab, make a selection in the field **BT-142**, and choose either **At least one winner has been selected**. or **The winner has not been selected yet, but the competition is still ongoing**. To link a bid to a participating party, it is essential that you have already added a bidder under the **Participating Parties** tab.

### Linking a bid to participating parties:

While in the Results form:

1. Click on **Tenders** in the left menu.
2. Click on **+ Add tender**.
3. Select a participating party from the dropdown in the field Participant identification reference (OPT-310). If no options are displayed in the dropdown, you need to add a participating party first.

The entered information will be automatically saved. You should be able to see the added Tender in the list on the Tenders tab.