WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

Three screens, and what is deliberately missing from them.

A sealed round is mostly defined by what cannot be shown. These are the screens as designed, drawn here so the absent parts are as visible as the present ones.

BUYER01

Opening a round

Packaging supply, 12 months

Specification	Corrugated, 3 SKUs, spec attached
Quantity	480,000 units / year
Closes	14 Mar, 17:00 WIB
Invited	4 vendors, by name

The buyer sets the closing time once. There is no field for extending it after bids are in.

BUYER, MID-ROUND02

Waiting

9 days to close

Vendor A	SUBMITTED
Vendor B	SUBMITTED
Vendor C	NOT YET
Vendor D	NOT YET

This is the entire screen. There is no price column, no total, no export, and no support request that produces one.

EVERYONE, AFTER 17:0003

The round opens

All four bids, same moment

Vendor A	Rp 840 juta
Vendor B	Rp 905 juta
Vendor C	Rp 893 juta
Vendor D	Rp 868 juta

Every bidder sees this, not only the buyer. A losing vendor can tell they lost to a number rather than to a relationship.

The second screen is the product. Anyone can build the first and the third; what is hard is a mid-round screen that has nothing on it, and cannot be made to have something on it.