Before, it was all manual. Someone logged into the portal, checked what had been published, picked what made sense for the business, opened and read each set of documents, and organized everything by hand. It eats the day, and it has to be redone constantly, because new tenders appear all the time.
The cost wasn't only the hours. It showed up in the opportunities that slipped by because nobody had time to look that day, or because the right tender was buried among dozens that had nothing to do with the business.
