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Reverse bidding · NYC tri-state
Materials at the price you name.
Vulmont is a sealed-bid marketplace for real estate developers. Post what you need — lumber, steel, concrete — and licensed suppliers compete downward into a ranked pool. No phone tag, no markup obfuscation, no peer leakage.
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How it works
A four-step protocol that protects every party at every step.
01
Post the RFQ
Specify materials, quantities, delivery, certifications, and ranking criteria. Save drafts; publish when ready.
02
Suppliers seal bids
Matched suppliers submit price, lead time, and freight. Bids are encrypted and locked until close — no peer values visible.
03
Reveal & rank
At close, your weighted criteria score every bid. The pool ranks instantly. Drill into any bid; export to PDF.
04
Award & fulfill
Award with one click. Mill certs, POs, and delivery confirmations move through document exchange. Audit trail stays signed.
Built for two sides
One marketplace. Two specialized surfaces.
DEVELOPER
Post RFQs. Compare bids. Award with confidence.
Dense comparison tables, weighted ranking, side-by-side compare, and a full audit trail. Built for project managers running a dozen RFQs simultaneously.
· Multi-step RFQ creation with material-specific spec forms
· Weighted ranking criteria, locked at publish
· Sealed-bid firewall — peer values never leak
· Spend & cycle-time analytics by category, supplier, project
Filtered RFQ feed by category and region, decision-aid panels with your historical win-rates, and a clean bid submission flow. Subscription tiers, no commission on wins.
· Matched feed by material category and ZIP allowlist
· Decision-aid: your win-rate at this price tier
· Bid receipt & lock confirmation, edit window before close
· Win/loss analytics per material, region, and buyer
A market designed against the failure modes of phone-tag procurement.
Every primitive in Vulmont is built around a single principle: information about a supplier's bid never leaks to peers, and information about a buyer's strategy never leaks to suppliers. Pricing competition stays clean.
Sealed-bid firewall
Suppliers see their own bid only. Buyers see counts and timestamps until close — never values. Enforced at the database, not just the UI.
Weighted criteria
Configure price, lead time, MOQ, certifications, and freight as weighted criteria. Ranking is deterministic and locked at publish — no goalpost moving.
Verified suppliers
Every supplier uploads W-9, insurance, and applicable mill or manufacturer certs. Documents expire on schedule and re-upload is enforced.
Signed audit trail
Every bid, edit, withdrawal, and award is hashed and timestamped. Exportable PDF for legal review. Defensible under counterparty challenge.
Anti-snipe extension
Bids submitted in the final 60 seconds extend the window by 2 minutes. Honest competition gets the same chance as last-second tactical entries.
Side-by-side compare
Pin 2–4 bids and diff line items, lead times, freight, and certs. Hover any cell for the full submitted detail and any redlines from the buyer.
Under the hood
Built like an exchange, not an inbox.
Sealed
Bid values stay hidden until close — buyers and peers see counts, never numbers
Locked
Ranking criteria fixed at publish; scoring is deterministic and reproducible
End-to-end
RFQ → award → PO → delivery → AP review in one system of record
Signed
Every bid, edit, and award hashed, timestamped, and exportable for review
Beyond the bid
The award is the midpoint, not the finish line.
After the award
Winning bids convert straight into purchase orders. Contracts move through redlines in-platform, deliveries are confirmed against the PO, and invoices land in AP review with the full bid history attached.
· One-click award → PO conversion
· Contract redlines and internal notes on the record
· Delivery confirmation tied to line items
· AP review with cost-center coding
Trust, built in
Both sides operate on verified identity and documented recourse. Suppliers pass document verification before their first bid; disputes run through a structured process instead of a phone argument.
· Supplier KYC & document verification
· Two-way ratings after fulfillment
· Structured dispute resolution
· Trust center with sub-processor list
Procurement, but disciplined. Now onboarding early-access teams in the NYC tri-state.