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Supplier members receive a steady flow of relevant subcontract opportunities over the course of their membership. Upon joining, we will set up filters so that you only receive the enquiries that match your in-house processes, the materials you work with, the approvals you hold and from buyers who are located within a distance you can service.

To ensure that we provide our members with the best possible information, we speak with every buyer before posting their project. This is to ensure that they are a legitimate business (as we do not deal with end users), that the enquiry is real, to collect the relevant drawings and find out if there is scope for the right supplier to win long-term work.

Here at Qimtek, we pride ourselves on putting companies in touch with each other for the establishment of long-term manufacturing partnerships. That is why you are provided with the full contact details of the buyers behind each enquiry - you will find these within your Supplier Dashboard so that you can discuss their business opportunities directly. Buyers who post projects need to be registered with Qimtek and sign terms agreeing to be contacted by our Supplier Members.

We know this because we inquire as to their annual subcontract spend on the relevant engineering process when they place a project with us. We then pass this information onto our Supplier Members. This benefits both parties - the buyer will receive contact from suppliers who are capable of handling the workload they require, and suppliers are given a better understanding of the full scope of work outsourced

To help keep you on top of the projects you receive, we have designed a dashboard that allows you to manage all of your projects in one place.

Within each project is a tabbed theme, with options to look at project details, batches & frequency, buyer's contact details and reviews (if they have them), messaging function to quickly talk to the buyer and a portal to download drawings. You will also find the contact details of the Qimtek Sourcing Account Manager for each project, whom you can contact directly if you have any questions about either the project or the buyer.

To help you manage the projects you receive, you should indicate your interest level when receiving a project as either 'interested' or 'not interested'. Similarly, once you have reviewed the drawings, you should indicate either 'quoting' or 'not quoting' accordingly. The buyer will be notified of your choices when they log into their Qimtek account to check their project status. Additionally, by indicating that you're interested in a project, the buyer will be able to access a link to your Supplier Profile so that they have an understanding of your company and capabilities prior to receiving your quote.

When a new project is posted onto your dashboard, you will receive an email alert to inform you so that you can start working on the project as quickly as possible. You can select to receive these alerts either in real time or as a daily summary.

Teamwork is essential when it comes to growing your company and unlike most platforms that charge per user, we believe that it can take a team of people to secure new business. Securing engineering projects can include anyone from estimators and workshop managers, to design engineers and sales professionals, right through to the managing director. That's why we provide you with one company account that an unlimited number of employees can register to access.

To help promote your business to more buyers, you can submit news stories and press releases to your profile. In addition, these will be featured in our news platform, broadcast across our social media platforms and may also appear in our monthly newsletter to 5000+ buyers.

First impressions count! As mentioned above, when you indicate your interest in any project, the buyer will be linked to your company profile. Therefore, it's best to spend some time making it look as good as possible.

As a Supplier Member, you will benefit from a supplier profile within the directory under the processes you offer, the materials you specialise in, where you are based and the approvals you hold. Listings will appear alphabetically, with suppliers who have upgraded to Membership Plus benefitting from the most prominent listings for extra exposure.

Upload photos to your supplier profile to showcase your company. We find that buyers tend to place more work with the suppliers who have images of their past projects uploaded to their profile. In addition, you can email your photos to us here at Qimtek and we will broadcast them across our social media channels on your behalf.

If you have company videos hosted on YouTube or Vimeo, then you can link them to your company profile.

Supplier member profiles are all fitted with a "Request a Quote" button that - when used by a registered manufacturing buyer - will forward Qimtek a copy of the buyer's project. We will then send it to you for first refusal, with 24 hours to accept or decline.

Access a database containing details of all of the companies who have sent you projects over the lifetime of your membership. From here, you can review the projects, buyer reviews, annual spends and more.

Tag and organise buyers into groups to start building your own unique database of purchasing contacts. This might include local buyers, for example, or perhaps buyers who have sent you projects requiring a certain material, process or approval.

We understand that new business can sometimes feel like a leap of faith. Many engineering suppliers initially have concerns when working with a new customer, such as their payment terms, communication and expectations. That's why we created Qimtek Engineering Reviews so that you can build a picture of prospective customers before committing to a contract. This only works if you continue to also add reviews for the new companies you win work with via the Qimtek platform.

Help your sales team to focus on approaching the right companies, who sub out the right type of work and have a substantial annual spend  in your chosen field.

We send our printed directory to over 3,000 registered manufacturing buyers annually, making it a great way to grow your brand awareness within the industry.

Each listing contains a QR code which links directly to your full online Qimtek supplier profile. Buyers simply use their smartphone camera to scan the code and find out more about what you can offer.

Membership Plus will give you a range of benefits including an enhanced listing in the printed directory as well as appearing in the monthly newsletter sent to over 5,000 manufacturing buyers and also appear top of the buyers searching our online directory. You can add this to any level of membership.

Increase your exposure to thousands of manufacturing buyers by taking out a full or half page advert within the printed directory

This is for companies who are looking for new customers from anywhere in the UK and possibly further afield. 

This is for engineering companies who are looking to expand their local business further afield but are not yet ready to deliver nationally.

This is for engineering companies who are looking to find new customers that are fairly local to them.

Would you like to feature in a monthly newsletter to over 5,000 buyers or have an enhanced listing in our printed directory, sent to 3,000 manufacturing buyers? Would you also like to feature at the top of the listings when buyers search the online directory for your services? Talk to your membership advisor about Membership Plus+ when joining.