On a job site, distance is cost. Search by radius from the site and filter on the paperwork a general contractor has to collect anyway.
Freight and mobilisation scale with distance, and most supplier searches return a national list ordered by who paid for the listing.
Pick a metro or share your location, set a radius, and get results ordered by actual distance to the nearest public site of each company.
Supplier directoryA certificate of insurance collected at onboarding is out of date within a year, and the first anyone notices is usually an incident.
Insurance, registration and licence documents are stored with their expiry, reviewed rather than merely uploaded, and readable only through short-lived signed links.
SuppliersOne includes freight, another excludes it, a third quotes a different quantity. Comparing them is a spreadsheet exercise done under time pressure.
An RFQ sets the line items, quantities and terms, so the responses come back comparable — with freight, lead time and exclusions in named fields rather than in a covering note.
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