The Platform User is a user of the system created through the registration process available via Web or USSD, and aims to ensure that Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, both national and international, may sign up on the database provided by IPEME and start having access to a management environment and to business opportunities amongst them.

To register in the MSME's database, the platform user shall access the registration screen, using the buttons “Signing Up” or “Sign Up”.

Once they click on one of the buttons indicated above, the system will display the registration screen where the user should fill in following the steps below:

Step 1: Insert Full Name;

Step 2: Select Sex;

Step 3: Select the Country of Residence;

Step 4: Indicate the Telephone Number;

Step 5: Indicate the Type of Tax Document;

Step 6: Insert the Tax Document Number;

Step 7: Upload the Tax Document;

Step 8: Insert the Email; and

Step 9: Insert the Password.

Note: Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.

After appropriately filling in all fields, or the mandatory ones that are duly marked with an asterisk (*), the system will send an SMS message to the number provided with a verification code, which shall be entered in the system for the registration to take place.

Once the code received via SMS is inserted, the system will display a success message, with two buttons, where you may either hit back to the home screen or go to the login screen. Login.

To enter the MSMEs’ database after registration, just access the Login screen by clicking on the “Enter” button. Login clicking on the Login button.

After clicking on the platform entry link, the system will display a screen with empty fields where the user shall fill in the e-mail / telephone number and password data, used in the registration process.

In this same screen, you will have as an option, if you wish to keep your credentials registered in the login field, the functionality that allows you to automatically remember them and in the following sessions you will not need to enter them again.

If you forget your login details Login, the system allows you to request password recovery by the link "Recover Password".

By clicking on the link, the system will go to the password recovery screen where the user shall provide the e-mail or telephone number used in the registration process to receive the verification code that will be used to reset the password.

Once the password recovery form is submitted, the system will display the screen below, to set a new password, after verifying the security verification code sent to the recovery medium used (e-mail or cell phone).

To view or edit user profile data, simply do the Login and in the User Panel, access the user's profile by clicking on the Profile access field.

Register Company

To register a company, in the MSME's Database, just do the Login and in the User Panel, access the Register Company menu.

When accessing the company registration field, the user will have access to a screen with a form where they will be required to fill in the following data:

1. Tax Name;
2. Trading name;
3. Legal name;
4. Legal Document Number;
5. Upload Legal Document;
6. Work Phones (separated by a comma);
7. Institutional emails (separated by a comma); and
8. Country

For Mozambican-based companies, the following should also be indicated:

1. Province;
2. District;
3. Type of Economic Activity;
4. License Number;
5. License Upload;
6. Annual Turnover; and
7. Legal Status.

After appropriately completing all the fields, or the mandatory ones that are duly marked with an asterisk (*), the system redirects you to a company profile screen, where the company administrator has the possibility to:

1. Editing Company Profile;
2. Publishing Portfolio;
3. Submitting the Company for Approval;
4. Deactivating the Company;
5. Requesting IPEME Certificate;
6. Adding/Removing administrator;
7. Upload Logo

To submit a company for approval, all fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required to be properly completed so that the button for submitting approval is enabled.

Note: Only approved companies may compete on equal footing or create opportunities.

Once the company submitted for approval is validated, it will be able to publishing its Portfolio so that other companies and/or users may have access to more information about its business activities.

By clicking on the “Publishing Portfolio” button, on the Company Profile screen, the system redirects to the confirmation screen, where the user shall inform if they really want to publish the company. After publishing the Company's Portfolio, the user will also be able to omit it if they do not want it to be available to the general public for some reason. This function is visible in the following part of the company profile.

Allows you to viewing and editing Company Portfolio data that other platform users have access to.

An IPEME certificate is one of the quality requirements offered by the platform and is associated with some opportunities depending upon it. This certificate can only be requested and authorized from previously approved companies.

To add administrators of a given company, the user shall indicate the registration data of another user registered on the platform. Without this other user being inserted on the platform, it will not be possible to add them to the company.

By clicking on the “Adding Administrator” button, the system displays a screen where you can indicate the intended user, through an email or a telephone number previously registered in the system.

It allows the user to manage their companies, having the possibility to search by Area of Activity, Province and Turnover.

The presentation of opportunities on the platform is governed by some conditions, namely:

• Whoever creates the opportunity will not be able to apply for it;
• The opportunity expiration date must not be less than the date of publication;
• Expired opportunities can no longer receive applications, and have to be removed from the listings;
• You cannot change an opportunities’ expiration date;
• When deleting an opportunity, companies having already submitted proposals are notified;
• It is only possible to edit an opportunity that does not have any competitor yet, in case there is any competitor, it is necessary to cancel the opportunity and create a new one;
• You cannot view details of an application for a given opportunity before its expiration.

To create an opportunity, in the MSME's database, simply access the menu and then the link “Create Opportunity”.

The system will display the screen for creating the Opportunities with empty fields where you should fill in the following data:

1. Opportunity title;
2. Contracting Company;
3. Reference;
4. Upload Terms of Reference;
5. Expiration date;
6. Area;
7. Tax Clearance Certificate;
8. INSS Clearance Certificate;
9. UFSA;
10. IPEME Certificate;
11. Currency of Bid Value; and
12. A brief description of the opportunity.

After properly completing all fields, or the mandatory ones that are dully marked with an asterisk (*), the system redirects the opportunities screen where you may view the opportunity, Edit the Opportunity and See Applicants.

Allows the user to manage their opportunities, with the possibility of Searching by Area of Activity and Status.

This field allows the user to manage the opportunities published by them in detail, in terms of:

• Date created;
• Expiration date;
• Detailed description of the tender / opportunity;
• Management / application viewing made by other users; and
• Editing of published information.

In this field, the user has the possibility to editing the information placed regarding the published opportunity.

In this field, the user has the possibility to follow the application process submitted during the period in which the opportunity is open in the system, but with the limitation that the user who published the opportunity may not see the details of the applications before the date stipulated for the end of the tender.