Finding "like" projects

Finding "like" projects

Hi Everyone!

My team is running into several duplicating deals. I've been trying to get them all to name things the same way ex. State is 2 letters not spelled out. Things like that.
What I am wondering if there is anything I can do as the superadmin to possibly search for "like" projects. Especially when there is a spelling error, we don't want duplicated efforts.
Because of our business structure, some of our work is design+build so there is no RFP #. Other times there are so many numbers on the bid document that who knows what people enter.

Long story short, Any ideas that I could try to reduce this, that would be a game changer.

Wow knows, maybe there is a custom function I can get help creating that would do different kind of search.

Thanks all, for reading my novel.


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