The Bench page holds the people your firm lists: staff and associates, from a staff list, from their CVs or typed in. It lives only in your space and is used only for your bids.
What it is
- Each person can carry a name, role, skills, certifications, years of experience, location, nationality, availability, day rate, email and notes. Only what you give is kept.
- A CV you upload is kept as the source of that person's record.
- A bid's Resourcing tab matches each role it needs against the bench, hard criteria first (where the person must be, certifications, years, the role's core skills), and lets you put someone on the role.
- The resourcing forecast counts the bench as supply.
How to use it
- The owner switches the bench on under Account, Your set-up.
- Open Bench.
- Upload a staff list (.xlsx or .csv), check how its columns map, look at the preview and save it. Or upload CVs (.docx or .pdf), or add a person by hand.
- Search the bench by words, country and certifications.
- On a bid, open Resourcing and put a matching person on a role.
Good to know
- Owners, writers, team directors and HR add and edit people; others, executives included, read. HR sees no day rates.
- Only the owner downloads and deletes the whole bench, or switches it off; both ask for a fresh second factor. Switching it off keeps the list until it is deleted.
- Biddable staff never see your bench.
- On the phone and tablet apps you can search and add people; staff lists and CVs are uploaded on the web.
Common questions
Does anyone outside our space see the bench?
No. It stays in your space, is used only for your own bids, and goes with your space if it is deleted.
Add people to the bench
Upload a staff list or CVs, or add a person by hand.
- Who can use it
- Owners, writers, team directors and HR.
- Where it is
- Bench
- In
- The web app, and the phone, tablet and desktop app
No clip for this one: Not filmed yet: the Enterprise plan arrived in November 2026.
What it does
Upload a staff list or CVs, or add a person by hand.
Step by step
- Open Bench.
- Upload a staff list, check the column mapping and the preview, and save it; or upload CVs; or add a person by hand.
- Check the people listed.
What you see
- Each person with their role, location and availability.
- A CV that could not be read is named beside the others, never dropped silently.
Put someone from the bench on a role
Match a bid's roles against the bench and choose who fills one.
- Who can use it
- Owners, writers, team directors and HR.
- Where it is
- A bid: Resourcing
- In
- The web app only
No clip for this one: Not filmed yet: the Enterprise plan arrived in November 2026.
What it does
Match a bid's roles against the bench and choose who fills one.
Step by step
- Open the bid's Resourcing tab.
- Under each role, read who meets its hard criteria and who comes close.
- Press the button beside a person to put them on the role.
What you see
- Who meets each role and why, who comes close and what stops them, and who holds the role now.
This page is the same help that sits behind the ? on every page of the app. Something it does not answer? Email hello@biddable.ae.