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Partner &
Supplier Marketplace

Connect buyers with the right partners and suppliers - from structured intake and AI-matched recommendations through to evaluation, award, and ongoing supplier engagement.

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A platform for partner and supplier matchmaking

Skipso powers Partner & Supplier Marketplaces where buyers and suppliers find each other based on genuine fit. Curate a rich supplier directory, publish procurement opportunities, and match them automatically to the right partners - all within a structured, auditable platform.

Curate

Build and manage a rich, searchable directory of curated partners and suppliers with structured profile data.

MATCH

AI-powered recommendations surface the right suppliers for every opportunity - based on profile, sector, and capability.

Evaluate

Structured applications, custom scoring criteria, and designated evaluator teams - with a full audit trail from submission to award.

Engage

Keep your supplier community active between formal opportunities with events, resources, and community tools.

Curate and onboard your supplier network

Build a structured, searchable directory of curated partners and suppliers. Each supplier creates a rich profile capturing their sector, capabilities, areas of interest, and relevant credentials - giving buyers the context to assess fit before engaging.

Rich supplier profiles

Suppliers onboard with comprehensive profiles - covering products, services, sector focus, and capabilities. Easily categorise and tag suppliers so buyers can filter and discover the right match for any procurement need.

Managed onboarding and access

Control who joins your marketplace and what they can see. Role-based access ensures suppliers, buyers, evaluators, and administrators each see the right information at every stage.

Publish opportunities and match suppliers

Launch structured procurement challenges and automatically surface them to the most relevant suppliers in your network - replacing manual outreach with intelligent, profile-based matching.

AI-matched opportunity recommendations

As opportunities are published, Skipso recommends them to the most relevant suppliers based on their profile, sector, and stated areas of interest - ensuring the right suppliers never miss a relevant opportunity.

Structured challenge requests and approvals

Buyers submit procurement challenges through a defined workflow, with sign-off at each stage before the opportunity goes live. Ensures every published challenge is correctly scoped and approved before suppliers are engaged.

Evaluate, award, and build community

From application receipt to final award, Skipso manages every step of the evaluation process - with custom scorecards, designated evaluator teams, and a full audit trail from first submission to award decision.

Structured evaluation and scoring

Each opportunity has its own application form, scoring criteria, and designated evaluator team. Scores are aggregated automatically, and the full decision trail is maintained throughout.

Supplier community and engagement

Beyond procurement, keep your supplier network active with events, resources, and community updates. Suppliers can connect with each other and stay engaged with your programme between formal opportunities.

eleonora venuti

Skipso supported us to design, develop and launch the Federated Innovation @MIND digital platform.

The digital platform has a complex organizational structure and continually updated content and flows – Skipso's strength is its flexibility and proactive support!
Eleonora Venuti
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Marketing & Business Community Manager,  MIND

From fragmented manual processes to a unified expert engagement hub.

Multiple programmes unified on one platform, replacing manual processes, with AI-powered matching between clinicians, researchers, and MedTech companies, role-based access to relevant programmes and communities, and compliance-ready data exports for finance.
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Leading US Healthcare Network

From spreadsheets and static portals to a fully auditable supplier marketplace.

100s of curated suppliers onboarded with AI-powered, profile-based opportunity matching, a structured multi-stage approval workflow for every challenge, personalised opportunity recommendations, and a single platform replacing five-plus procurement tools, spreadsheets, and manual scoring processes.
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UK Central Government Organisation

Building California's cleantech innovation community in one connected platform

350+ startups & SMEs active on the platform
550+ public and private organisations connected
900+ active ecosystem users across the cleantech community
AI-powered recommendations surfacing relevant content, opportunities, and connections for every member type
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Empower Innovation (California Energy Commission)

The Skipso team has worked incredibly hard to make the program an outstanding success.

The team’s effort as well as the high flexibility of their online awards management platform were absolutely essential for the great overall success of this program!
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Digital Promise

The Skipso team has worked incredibly hard to make the program an outstanding success.

The team’s effort as well as the high flexibility of their online awards management platform were absolutely essential for the great overall success of this program!
Arne Pingel
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Global Product Manager, Syngenta

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