A bid that has been decided is no longer the expert’s to change

Accepting a bid already closed it to editing. Three other doors were still open: a rejected bid could be edited or moved back to draft, which put it back in front of the manager who had just declined it, and any bid — including the winning one — could be archived by the expert who wrote it.

Archiving is the one that mattered most. It does not stop at the bid: it takes the bid’s history, the customer’s quote and that quote’s invoices with it. So the expert who won the work could take the customer’s quote out of circulation on their own, with nobody told.

What you’ll see

If you’re an expert, a bid that has been accepted or rejected no longer offers Edit proposal, Move to draft or Archive proposal — on the bid itself, on your bid page for the lead, or as a lever on the lead workspace. If you reach the edit page by a saved link or the back button, it explains why instead of giving you the form.

Nothing changes for a bid still waiting on a decision, or one you’re revising after a change request: edit, withdraw and archive all work exactly as before.

If you’re an SDM, a bid you have rejected stays rejected. It can no longer reappear in your review queue as though it were new, and the reason you gave for rejecting it stays on the record.

If you’re a customer, a quote you have been sent stays yours to act on. The expert behind it cannot withdraw the bid it was built from, and cannot archive the quote or its invoices out from under you.

If something does need to change

Speak to your manager. There is no self-service route back into a bid once it has been decided — that is the point of the decision — and this release does not add one.