About the Silka tender and bid platform

Silka is a tender discovery and bid preparation platform for companies and independent experts worldwide who pursue projects funded by multilateral development banks (MDBs). Instead of spreading this work across many portals and tools, Silka connects it in one place, from finding an opportunity to submitting a bid. It brings together:

• Opportunity data from several development bank procurement sources.
• Company preferences that shape which tenders are surfaced.
• Bid work organized in a workspace for each tender.
• Shared files and tasks for the people working on a bid.
• Collaboration with independent experts outside the company.

Silka is built for three kinds of users who each take a different role in the same tender workflow:

• Company owners create a company account, set tender preferences, manage members, and oversee tender workspaces.
• Company members join an existing company, discover and bookmark tenders, and collaborate in shared workspaces.
• Independent experts create a searchable professional profile, receive company invitations, and take part in accepted tender workspaces.

Companies pursuing development-funded contracts often work across disconnected tools: separate source portals, spreadsheets, inboxes, document folders, and private consultant networks. That fragmentation creates four recurring problems:

• Relevant opportunities are hard to find early, so bids start late.
• Fit is hard to judge consistently across many portals and formats.
• Bid tasks and files are scattered, so nothing has a single source of truth.
• Qualified experts are hard to evaluate and bring in at the right moment.

Silka replaces that with one path from discovery to bid preparation, so a team can see opportunities, judge fit, organize the work, and involve experts in the same place.

Silka covers the full path from discovery to a submission-ready bid through five capabilities:

• Tender discovery: browse, search, filter, sort, and bookmark active procurement opportunities, with match scores and matching signals based on your company profile.
• Tender workspaces: open a focused workspace for each tender, track readiness and days remaining, manage a checklist matched to the procurement method, assign work, and share files.
• Expert collaboration: search a directory of independent experts, filter by role, sector, country, language, availability, and development bank experience, and invite the right people into a specific tender workspace.
• Expert profiles: build a structured profile, highlight experience on development bank funded projects, control visibility, and receive tender-specific invitations.
• Document preparation: generate CVs in bank formats such as World Bank Form TECH-6, draft proposal content, export documents, and assemble technical and financial envelopes into submission-ready PDFs.

Silka provides live opportunity feeds from the main multilateral development banks and from national procurement in Uzbekistan:

• World Bank: consulting and procurement notices for its projects and operations.
• Asian Development Bank (ADB): consulting and procurement opportunities.
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD): procurement notices.
• Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): project procurement.
• Islamic Development Bank (IsDB): procurement opportunities.
• UZEX: national public procurement in Uzbekistan.

Each listing links back to the original source notice, so you can confirm details and follow the official process.

Getting started takes a few minutes and depends on whether you represent a company or work as an independent expert.

1. Create an account at app.silka.uz as a company or as an independent expert.
2. If you represent a company, set your tender preferences so relevant opportunities are surfaced first; if you are an expert, complete a searchable professional profile.
3. Review matched tenders, bookmark the ones worth pursuing, and open a workspace to prepare a bid.
4. Invite colleagues or independent experts into a workspace when you are ready to build the bid together.

Learn more at silka.uz, or create an account at app.silka.uz. For questions, contact [email protected].