Success Story

Revolutionizing industrial construction procurement with MetalArena, a collaborative RFP and quotation platform where suppliers bid line-by-line, negotiate, and join forces to deliver large-scale projects.

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Customer Description

Miller Invest is an investment group with a strong presence in industrial real estate and large-scale construction initiatives.Objective: Launch MetalArena, a digital marketplace that streamlines RFP creation, enables transparent bidding, and fosters collaboration among suppliers for complex industrial projects.

Challenge

Miller Invest envisioned MetalArena as a central hub for the industrial construction sector, connecting project owners with qualified suppliers in a transparent, competitive environment. The goal was to replace scattered email-based negotiations with a structured, auditable process that supports detailed bidding, line-by-line pricing, and collaborative supplier participation. By embedding negotiation tools and multi-supplier workflows, the platform would shorten procurement cycles, improve cost accuracy, and ensure projects are awarded to the most capable, cost-effective teams.

Specific challenges include:

  • Digitizing complex RFP and quotation processes for large construction projects

  • Enabling detailed, line-by-line bidding on technical specifications

  • Supporting multi-supplier collaboration on a single project bid

  • Embedding negotiation tools and version-controlled quotation updates

  • Ensuring secure document handling for sensitive project data

Solution

Devista worked with Miller Invest to design and implement MetalArena as a scalable, feature-rich marketplace tailored to industrial construction procurement.

Collaborative approach

Held workshops with construction project owners, suppliers, and procurement specialists to design intuitive bidding and negotiation workflows

Seamless integrations

Integrated document management for technical files, secure messaging for negotiations, and role-based supplier access controls

Tech stack

Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, AWS Fargate, AWS Aurora, AWS S3 for project documentation, AWS SNS and AWS SQS for notifications and bid event processing, Elasticsearch for fast project search

Custom features

RFP creation wizard, detailed line-by-line bidding interface, quotation revision history, negotiation chat, multi-supplier joint bid assembly, project awarding and audit trail

Results

MetalArena streamlined procurement for industrial construction projects, creating a transparent marketplace where suppliers compete and collaborate more effectively.

Operational improvements

Reduced procurement cycle time, improved bid transparency, standardized RFP workflows, enabled real-time negotiation tracking

Business impact

Higher bid participation rates, more competitive pricing, and increased project award speed, strengthening Miller Invest’s position in the industrial construction market

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