Using vendor templates in tenders
After the vendor has completed his documents in the template and the template has been made available its time to use the template documents in a tender.
Select the template and documents from the dropdown list, complete all fields and create your tender
In the new tender the specification documents for each vendor would be included with information about access to the document. If there are documents with no ownership, the access to these documents are controlled by the role access permissions.
Each vendor will see documents that he owns as well as any other document on which they have be given role access. If you do not want vendors to see the standard technical specification or any other document types, ensure that you define your role permissions accordingly. This makes it possible to add a new vendor to the tender even though he has not supplied a specification document and still allow him access to the general specification.
If you create a new document you can deny access to the document to certain vendors, when the vendor logs in they will not be able to see this document.
Note: The options to deny vendor access to a document will not be available until at least one vendor has been added in the vendor access panel.
Note: Once the tender has been awarded you can choose to show only the documents from the awarded vendor not ALL vendors
To do this click the Show only awarded vendor's documents checkbox.
All of the unsuccessful vendor documents will be removed and only the awarded vendor documents will be listed.