Mdanson27/AUTOMINDS-AFRICA-BID-FINDER

# AutoMinds Africa Bid Finder Uganda-focused procurement intelligence platform by **AutoMinds Africa**. The repository now contains a production-minded MVP foundation: Firebase Authentication, Firestore data access, a branded responsive portal, bid search, saved bids, deadline views, organization discovery, a source monitor, an admin testing utility, and an isolated Python collector workspace for the real Uganda source adapters. ## Brand asset Add the official AutoMinds Africa logo as: ```text public/logo.png ``` Every logo location already points to `/logo.png`. Until it is added, the interface falls back to an AutoMinds text mark instead of showing a broken image. ## Login mascot The login screen includes **Bid Scout**, an original AutoMinds-colored procurement mascot: - idle: “Looking for bids, I see.” - email focus: the eyes follow the email interaction and the message changes - password focus: the mascot covers its eyes - sign-in: the mascot switches to scanning/loading mode ## Current stack - Next.js + TypeScript - Firebase Authentication - Cloud Firestore (MVP/testing data layer) - Firebase Analytics - strict Firestore rules - responsive AutoMinds blue/orange design system - isolated Python collector scaffold ## Run locally ```bash npm install cp .env.example .env.local npm run dev ``` Open `localhost`. The Firebase web configuration supplied for `spring-ship-456117-u8` is already used as a fallback, so `.env.local` is optional for the initial test project. ## Firebase first-time setup 1. Enable **Email/Password** in Firebase Authentication. 2. Create Firestore for project `spring-ship-456117-u8`. 3. Deploy `firestore.rules` and `firestore.indexes.json`. 4. Create a Firebase Auth user and sign in once. 5. Change that user's Firestore `/users/{uid}.role` from `viewer` to `admin`. 6. Open `/admin/bids/new` and add one test bid to validate the complete Firestore → dashboard flow. Full steps: `docs/FIREBASE_SETUP.md`. ## Portal route …