Using the panel

The panel reads top to bottom down the sidebar. Here is what each screen does, and the order in which they become useful.

Last updated: 2026-09-06

Signing in

Accounts are created by an administrator; there is no sign-up. If you have forgotten your password, the “Forgot password” link on the sign-in page sends a reset link to your address.

A session lasts twelve hours and lives in a cookie the page’s own JavaScript cannot read. The language picker at the foot of the sidebar switches the whole interface, including reading direction for Arabic.

Projects — the list of notices

This is the home screen. The filters at the top combine: a word in the objet, a buyer, a category, a place, a publication date, a closing window, a state.

The deadline column shows time remaining rather than a bare date, in red inside three days. A cancelled avis says so on its own row, with the date and the published reason, without opening it. The buyer’s name opens their profile.

The star at the start of a row adds the avis to what you follow. The export button at the foot downloads the filtered list as CSV.

Opening an avis

The header gives the buyer, category, place, procedure, publication and deadline. Then, where they apply: the cancellation notice and its reason, what this buyer already paid for the same purchase republished, what work like this goes for, the attached documents, and the line-item detail.

The translate buttons above the articles translate them on demand. A translation is paid for once and then kept; reading it again costs nothing.

“Create a quote” carries the articles into an invoice form.

Results and insights

“Results” lists published awards: who won, for how much, against how many bidders. “Insights” aggregates the same material — the companies that win most, the buyers that publish most, the categories, the trend by month, and how often an avis ends with no winner.

Every row of a ranking opens: a buyer leads to their profile, a company to what they have won. Amounts are medians, not means — a few very large contracts pull an average far above a typical marché.

Following and alerts

“Following” gathers the starred avis, each with the private note you attached.

“Alerts” saves a search and tells you what matches it: new notices, results, or both. An alert with no filters simply sends you everything new each day. With no mail server configured, alerts are recorded and logged but not sent, and the screen says so plainly.

Invoices

A quote is built line by line from an avis: tick what you are pricing and enter a unit price. Amounts are computed in centimes, never in floating-point, so the totals come out exact.

The PDF carries your company letterhead as it stands in Settings at the moment the document is produced.

For administrators

“Dashboard” counts what the database holds, shows the last crawl and the next, and watches the crawler’s health: a crawl that stops finding anything, a field that stops being read, a backlog that sets in.

“System” shows the state of the box: the last backup and whether this database is actually in it, disk space, the running version, and whether mail and translation are configured.

“Users” creates and disables accounts. “Settings” covers the site name, the crawler’s pace, the mail server, the translation key and the invoice letterhead. Secrets are written but never read back: a field left empty changes nothing.