Why Suppliers Don't See Each Other
When you take part in a request, you don't know which other suppliers were invited, or how many. This concealment is deliberate — and it's in your interest as much as it protects fair competition.
Keeping each supplier isolated from the others serves two goals: preventing collusion on prices, and protecting your commercial position from your competitors' eyes.
Preventing Collusion
If suppliers knew each other's identities, they could coordinate to raise prices or split deals — competition would lose its meaning and everyone would suffer, including the honest supplier. By keeping each supplier isolated, your price stays rooted in your own calculations, not a hidden agreement.
They could coordinate to raise prices or split deals — a sham competition where the buyer and the honest supplier both lose.
No agreement is possible — each supplier prices on their own calculations alone, so competition stays real and fair for everyone.
Protecting Your Commercial Position
Your participation in a given request, your prices, and your relationship with the buyer are all sensitive competitive information you have no interest in your competitors seeing. Just as you don't see their data, they don't see yours.
Each party sees only their own participation. This symmetry is what makes competition on Teradix fair and safe for every supplier.
“You all compete on real quality and price — not on who can spy on whom.”
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