Our applications pages show what goes where — which furniture suits a park, a streetscape or a transit stop. The specifications hub lists what each model is made of. This section covers the layer in between: how you actually buy it — writing the specification, assembling the tender documentation, comparing offers that arrive from different kinds of suppliers, and getting a package from a factory in China onto your site without surprises.
Each guide addresses one buyer situation: a municipal tender, a campus fit-out, a resort landscape, a landscape contractor packaging a project, or a distributor building a repeat-order line. The guides are short on marketing and heavy on checklists, because that is what survives in a procurement file.
Six guides cover the buying situations we are asked about most: public tenders, schools and campuses, hotels and resorts, landscape projects, wholesale distribution and first-time importing. Each is written complete — checklists and decision tables, not marketing. If your buying situation is not covered, send us the specification or schedule you are working from and we will review it directly.
The guides
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Site Furniture Tender and RFP Specification Guide
What a complete site furniture specification defines, which documents a supplier should submit, and the specification mistakes that stall municipal evaluations.
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Site Furniture for Schools and Campuses
Quad seating, litter and recycling bins, bike parking and vandal-resistant specification, with delivery planned around vacation windows.
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Site Furniture for Hotels and Resorts
The ten-model resort collection mapped to poolside, dining terraces and rooftops — comfort-first seating, zone pairing and how hospitality orders are quoted.
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Specifying Site Furniture for Landscape Projects
From concept drawing to costed package: specification language that survives value engineering, submittals, anchoring coordination and installation sequencing.
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Distributor and Wholesale Buying Guide
Buying for resale: per-model minimums, mixed containers across product lines, private-label branding from 50 pcs, and repeat-order planning.
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Importing Site Furniture from China: A Buyer Guide
The import path end to end: quotation, samples, production, inspection, export packing and sea freight — and what to confirm at each stage.
Read the guide →Related references: trade terms and MOQ, shipping and delivery, furniture by application, specifications and TDS.
Frequently asked questions
Who writes these guides?+
The AOTUDE engineering and sales team, compiled from the questions that actually come up in quotations and tender submissions — not from generic industry templates.
Can you review our draft specification before we publish the tender?+
Yes. Send the draft to our contact email and we will flag the lines a factory cannot quote as written, plus the documentation you should require from bidders.
Do you bid on public tenders directly?+
We act as the manufacturer behind the offer — supporting bidders and contractors with drawings, TDS, compliance sheets and quotations. Where local rules allow direct supply, we quote against the schedule of items.
Send your schedule, get a costed BOM
Send the schedule of items, quantities and finish requirements. Our engineers review it, flag anything a factory cannot quote as written, and reply with a specification and price within one working day.
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