FAQ

International development organizations, global research institutions, international businesses

• Save time and money searching for potential partners, subcontractors and consultants
  • Quickly search by location, sector, technical skills and other key parameters
  • Vital selection information can be added by local organizations and consultants
• Find reliable partners, subcontractors and consultants and ensure quality of work
  • View ratings and reviews by other organizations that have previously worked with potential candidates
  • Limit sole-sourced contracts by finding additional candidates
• Identify capacity strengthening needs and likely bottlenecks right from the beginning
  • Prior ratings and reviews enable users to plan solutions before problems arise
  • Information added by organizations and consultants can help identify potential capacity strengthening specific to your needs
• Motivate partners, subcontractors and consultants
  • Positive reviews can lead to future contracts, a highly motivating factor
• Improve performance and outcomes
  • Collaborating and contracting with the best possible partners and consultants equals positive results

Field/local organizations and consultants

• Increase your visibility
  • International and local contractors will find you quickly and easily
• Never miss a contract due to internet access
  • Post critical information used in the selection process directly to our website
• Grow your organization and increase contracts
  • Positive ratings and reviews about your prior work increase your chances for future contracts
  • Find local consultants and future employees on the website
• Improve applications and win contracts
  • Ask past and current partners, contractors and employers to rate and review you
  • Refer to or provide links to positive reviews in contract applications
• Learn how to improve your organization/work
  • Feedback in posted reviews enables you to see where improvements are needed and respond to reviewer comments. Reviewers can also update reviews when they see improvements

• GlobalSubFinder currently offers two types of membership for organizations (PLUS and Basic). Consultant memberships are coming soon.
  • PLUS Membership ($348/year): ONLY PLUS member organizations can add their organization and detailed information to increase visibility; ONLY PLUS member organizations can access contract information; ONLY PLUS members can respond to reviews. PLUS members also have all of the same access as Basic members.
  • Basic Membership ($0/year): Basic member organizations can ONLY search other organizations and consultants and write reviews. Basic members CANNOT add any information about their organization and, CANNOT access detailed contract information.
  • Consultant Membership: COMING SOON!
  • GlobalSubFinder Consulting Services: Contact us

• Once you sign up, please feel free to respond to any review written about you or your organization if you do not agree, feel it is unfair, or have made subsequent changes to address the issue(s)
• Don’t panic! Most people look at overall ratings and read multiple reviews before drawing conclusions
• Encourage other organizations with which you have worked to add their reviews

• GlobalSubFinder does not include the name or information of the reviewer to encourage honest reviews and ensure privacy
• We do require reviewers to sign up and log in before writing a review but do not share that information on the website
• Globalsubfinder screens reviewer login to ensure that organizations or consultants do not review themselves and that competitors do not write negative reviews about an organization or consultant.

• Honest ratings and reviews provide critical information about issues that may need to be addressed prior to beginning work with an organization or consultant. A review that is generally positive but contains information about any issues encountered provides information that enables contractors and partners to plan, provide support, identify capacity strengthening needs and improve outcomes
• Organizations and consultants can add information, such as technical skills, M&E techniques and accounting practices, that allows contractors and partners to see their strengths and identify potential capacity strengthening needs to facilitate the work and improve outcomes

• To create an account, first click on the Sign up link here or in the top navigation menu. Next, fIll in all of the required fields, and click on the REGISTER button. Shortly after registration, you should receive an email with your account activation instructions. Follow the instructions in the email to activate your account.
• Once your account is activated, you will be able to login using your email and password provided during registration. When you log in for the first time, you will be taken directly to the membership page to choose the type of membership. If you choose PLUS Membership ($348/year), you will be taken to PayPal to pay your membership fee. Remember: ONLY PLUS members can add their organization and search full contract information.

• Before logging in, you will need to click on the link sent to the email address you used to create your account. Please check your junk mail or spam folder if you do not see an email from GlobalSubFinder in your inbox.Contact us if you have a Hotmail account or did not receive the activation link.

• Creating an account and logging in
  • enables a reviewer to update a review, if needed
  • ensures only one review per reviewer (with the option to update the review)
  • allows GlobalSubFinder to label reviews as verified organization-based (i.e.  written using an organization’s official email address) or unverified (i.e. written from a personal or non-verifiable email address)
  • helps prevent individuals from reviewing themselves or their organization

• GlobalSubFinder checks all reviews for appropriate content (inappropriate language, links or photographs will not be included) and to determine if the review was written using an official organization email address (denoted as verified) or a private email address (denoted as unverified)

• GlobalSubFinder aims to avoid duplications and channel all reviews for a single organization or consultant to their page on our website. Some organizations or consultants have multiple names, use acronyms or are easily misspelled. When you search for an organization or consultant, the name (or a list of similarly spelled names) will appear to direct you to their page on our website. If their name is not in our database, you will be asked to add basic information (name and country) before writing a review.