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.
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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