Dear Employer,
Thank you for your message, and thank you for invitation to bid.
I have seen your project, but I have not sent offer because your quoted offered payment terms are not in accordance with freelancer.com rules and recommendations:
In accordance with freelancer.com rules and recommendations, Employer have to award project to Freelancer, if Employer is interested for cooperation, and Employer have to create full milestone – deposit before Freelancer accept project. As you know, that milestone Freelancer cannot receive without Employers release and Employer cannot receive back milestone without Freelancers back release of it. In order to release milestone it have to be agreement of Employer and Freelancer, or freelancer.com decision. Milestone protects both sides, and freelancer.com strongly recommend to Freelancers not to start work without milestone, and recommend to Employers not to release milestone until finalizing of project.
Anyway, I could try to find suppliers/manufacturers, as result of web search, and as result of preliminary web search, I already see potential suppliers/manufacturers. I could ask suppliers/manufacturers regarding required product, send to Employer suppliers/manufacturers answers and questions, and send to suppliers/manufacturers Employers answers, until we agree deal. MOQ can be problem because quantity is very low for suppliers/manufacturers, and MOQ could be few times higher.
Thank you and Best regards,
Dejan