Construction isn't the first industry that comes to mind when you think about digital procurement. The traditional ways of working — spreadsheets, notebooks, phone calls — have held up for decades, and nobody questions them until someone shows there's another way.
Ineton Kft. manufactures precast concrete elements, handles design, and manages construction — an industry where project teams are always assembled around the job at hand, and processes tend to be flexible but rarely structured. The ‘Factory-saving’ program gave them the opportunity to change that. They took it.
István and András, technical preparation specialists at Ineton, were introduced to Fluenta through the ‘Factory-saving’ program. The company is a construction partner of the Bonafarm Group, and as part of a shared decision, subcontractor selection would from that point run through Fluenta's tendering process.
"We didn't want to fall behind — we were open to new technology," they say. They didn't experience the system as something imposed on them, but as an opportunity. And that shows in how they've woven it into their own workflows.
Tendering worked — but it wasn't structured. Requests for proposals went out by email, responses came back by phone, documentation ended up scattered across inboxes and folders. Looking something up after the fact always took far more time than it should have.
Introducing software like this doesn't halve your admin overnight. With Fluenta, the preparation phase takes more time — proper templates need to be built, the tender package has to be fully assembled upfront — but once the actual tendering begins, the operational burden drops significantly. Overall, the process has become roughly 10–15% faster.
One of the most tangible changes has been in communication. The old parallel streams — email threads here, phone calls there — have been replaced by a single rule: all communication with bidders happens through Fluenta, and that's non-negotiable. In practice, this means every participant works from exactly the same information, transparently.
The online auction has become a standard part of both colleagues' workflows — not just for a handful of high-stakes categories, but at the end of almost every tendering process. For István, it proved especially valuable in solar panel procurement. András used it across several trades: metalwork, window and door installation, and more.
No dramatic, jaw-dropping savings — they'll tell you that straight. But stable, predictable results are what they were after. In a sector where predictability is rarely a given, that's worth a great deal on its own.
Internal approvals have gotten simpler too. Reports pulled from Fluenta go directly to management, so decisions move faster and the whole process is more transparent. And there's one detail that turns out to be particularly useful: reports are available and downloadable retroactively, at any time — meaning data from past procedures can be pulled up in seconds.
When talking about their experience with customer support, the Ineton team highlighted one thing in particular: "If they couldn't pick up right away, they would call us back later to ask how they could help." That kind of proactive availability built trust with Fluenta quickly.
It became clear to them that the key to getting the most out of digital tendering is a well-prepared, complete tender package. They learned that the hard way in their first few procedures — and quickly shifted their focus accordingly. If they were starting over today, they'd put more energy into that from day one.
If they had to sum up what the system means to them in a single sentence, the answer is simple: consolidated tendering. In an industry where processes tend to fall apart at the seams, digital order is the solid foundation you can actually build on.