Negotiate/accept controls
Some of these controls and links will only show when the vendors have been shortlisted.
For example accepting compliant, assign maximum score and accept offers.
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Clicking this link will accept all items which have a compliance only response.
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Assign maximum score to compliant items
Clicking this link will assign the maximum score to fully compliant items.
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Batch accept all responses
Clicking this link will batch accept ALL responses.
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Request best and final offer
Clicking this link will force the vendor to provide a best and final offer.
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Overview link, tags and documents menu
Link to overview screen, document tag creation tool and quick document menu
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Selector to change vendor response documents and also whether to show all bid submitted or only short listed vendors.
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Enter the estimated cost for this item.
Shows the average historic cost for the item for the last 3 tenders.
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You may also decide to make an exception of an item and either exclude it from the contract completely or assign only this item to a different vendor. YOU NEED ONLY SELECT A VENDOR HERE IF YOU PLAN TO AWARD THIS TO A DIFFERENT VENDOR THAN THAN THE VENDOR WITH THE WINNING BID. THIS WOULD TYPICALLY ALSO APPLY ONLY TO DELIVERABLE ITEMS. In such a case, this item will be shown as excluded when you award the contract to the winning vendor. You may then issue a separate small contract for only this (these) items to the selected vendor.
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Click on the document heading to show the requirements and vendor response settings. Items in red need attention. Items in black are completed.
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Shows the vendor requirements for this item
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Shows the vendor response for this item
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Click here if you wish to negotiate further with the vendor, once you have entered a new price the vendor can choose to accept the revised offer or make a counter offer.
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Choose to include/exclude the current item from the pricing reports.
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If you are happy with the details of the items you can choose to accept this offer , if you have the correct permissions you can view and accept either commercial or technical responses or both.
This control also shows the person who last submitted a response and the person who last accepted the item.
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If the tender is using the simple evaluations then you can score either a technical or commercial score.
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Shows all of the negotiations history for the item.
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Content panel includes messaging, content editing, library clause linking and importing from excel.
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