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Welcome to the My DCI Quick StartGuide series – Market Intelligence &Market Leads

In here, you will find useful information about how to make the most of your DCI Market Intelligenceand Market Leads (depending on your membership level) that make up the Insight element of DCI.

With Insight, you will receive the news (Market Intelligence) and private sector leads and frameworkopportunities (Market Leads) matching your organisation’s unique profile by email every working day.

We're here for you whenever you need us. Whether you have a question about your service, need help setting up your profile, or want a personalised DCI demo, the the DCI Customer Growth Team is here to help. Here are some convenient ways to contact us:

• Email win@bipsolutions.com • Call our Customer Growth Team on 0141 270 7666

Profile – All of the news stories/market leads which have matched your profiletoday can be found here.

Viewed – All the news stories/market leads you’ve been looking at ordered withthe most recently viewed first.

Flagged – To flag a relevant news story/market lead, find it first and then clickon the flag icon, which will turn red. Any news stories/market leads that havebeen identified and ‘flagged’ will be shown here.

Accessing Your DCI AccountVisit www.dcicontracts.com to access your account and then simply log in with your username and password. This will take you to My DCI - Dashboard, where you can access all the following intuitive features and functionalities.

1My DCI – Dashboard

Membership

Contracts

Essential

Premium

Ultimate

Contract Alerts Spend Analysis Market LeadsMarket Intelligence

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Alert Profiles – By creating a unique profile using keywords that are relevant to you, you will receive information that is of specific interest to you.

You will also receive notification of the keywords which match your profile, which can then be amended and refined by you at any time.

Clicking on editwill take you to the ‘Edit Market Intelligence/Market Leads Profile Search Criteria’ page. From here you can:

• Search for Keywords

• Select Countries

• Select Market sector

Clicking on alert preferenceswill take you to the ‘Market Intelligence/Market Leads Alert Profile Preferences’ page, where you canchoose the format and frequency of your DCI Market Intelligence/Market Leads Alert emails.

Saved Searches – This functionality allows you to set up additional searches on top of your master profile that can be run in your DCIaccount. To save a search, click ‘run search’ based on your criteria, click ‘save search’ at the bottom of your search results and then name the search.

My Alert Statistics/Profile Change History – An ‘at a glance’ view of the volume of new news stories/market leads receivedeach day and a record of when you made any profile updates.

My Recent Alert Attachments – This option enables you to view all Daily Email Alerts received during the previous two weeks.You can find the date you are looking for by hovering over each bar and then clicking on the bar to view.

Recent Profile Activity – Shows full detail of changes you have made to your Alert profile and when they were made.

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See ‘Manage Profilesand Saved Searches’

This is where you can choose the format and frequency of your DCI Market Intelligence/Market Leads Alert emails.

2 My Market Intelligence/Market Leads

DCI offers various insight search and filtering options to ensure you find what you’relooking for quickly and easily. Find out more detail on each of these options below.

Quick search – Simply add any keywords or organisations of your choice to run a quick search. Click ‘Add a Term’ for every keyword youwish to include in your search. You can choose the Market sector that you are interested in – Defence Only, Civil Only or both.

From here you can also view all of your latest market intelligence/market leads results.

Advanced search – Clicking on advanced search allows you to amend your Market Intelligence/Market Leads search results. To do this,simply select any of the criteria below to refine your results:

• Date range

• Countries

• Keywords to search for

• Additional criteria:

- Exact keywords

- Title

- Market Sector

The keyword logic is the same as for the opportunity quicksearch. You can enter keywords and phrases applicable to thenature of the news and/or leads you are interested in.Keywords and phrases are not case-sensitive. Keywords caneither be complete or open-ended, e.g. ‘comput’ will findnews stories containing the words ‘computer’, ‘computers’ and‘computing’. This applies to phrases as well, e.g. ‘ManagementConsult’ will find ‘Management Consultants’, etc.

To flag a relevant news story/market lead, find it, then click on the flag icon, which will turn red. Any news stories/market leads that havebeen identified and ‘flagged’ will be shown on this page as well as on your DCI Market Intelligence/Market Leads Dashboard.