Transparent eTendering - Publishing Criteria Weightings

November 24th, 2011

SupplierSelect helps buyers (”contracting authorities”) to comply with procurement regulations by providing a number of project settings which change the behaviour of the RFP. Many of these are driven by the European Union’s directives on public sector contracting. We’ve now added a new setting - “Expose Weightings to Respondents”.

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Finding Key Differentiators when Scoring RFP Questions

October 12th, 2011

When running a big RFP, it’s very easy to become lost in the vendor and scoring information that is accumulated. SupplierSelect works to develop new tools to help manage this information. A recently developed report helps to drill down to the questions that most differentiate vendors responses.

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RFP Answers Comparison Reports

October 11th, 2011

Answer Reports enable RFP authors to create reports which collate vendor data. Individual data points can be picked from RFP questions to create a compact report for side by side comparison of vendor responses.

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RFP Scoring Analysis with Excel Pivot Tables

September 25th, 2011

Scoring data from RFP / RFx projects is used in different ways by different organizations. It can be statistically manipulated, analyzed or used to produce charts and reports. To facilitate these activities SupplierSelect provides a way of exporting scoring data for maximum flexibility. This is the “Raw Data Export” report reached under Project -> Reports using the “Raw Data” link under “Analysis”.

This article describes using Excel’s Pivot Table functionality to analyze data thus exported. The screenshot below shows how theĀ  sample dataset appears when it is first loaded in Excel:

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Writing Good RFP Questions

June 25th, 2011

Summary:

  1. The “best” vendor is the one most suited to your requirements
  2. The only “Expert” is yourself - the buyer. Stay focused on your own requirements
  3. Don’t be afraid to let the vendors educate you about their products or services
  4. Closed questions (multiple choice) are better than open questions
  5. Fewer good questions are better than many questions of variable quality

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SupplierSelect for Electronic Medical Record (EMR) RFPs

January 21st, 2011

EMR Match has partnered with SupplierSelect to launch a service for the evaluation and selection of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) vendors. EMR Match formed a committee of over 20 industry experts to build a set of requirements for evaluating EMR systems. These requirements are expressed as a SupplierSelect questionnaire with over 250 questions. Over 50 EMR vendors are now registered in the system, with pre-screening data available for a majority of those. This enables EMR buyers to manage a rigorous EMR RFP entirely through their browser using predefined criteria and issuing to pre-registered vendors.

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Student Information System RFP managed with SupplierSelect

August 2nd, 2010

Auckland University of Technology (http://www.aut.ac.nz/) has successfully used SupplierSelect for evaluating and selecting a Student Information System for managing 25,000 students. 33 university staff collaborated through SupplierSelect on defining requirements and evaluating vendors’ bids.

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Embed Images in RFP Questionnaires

June 12th, 2010

SupplierSelect now enables you to embed images within your RFP questions.

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RFP Answer Input Validation

May 12th, 2010

Sometimes you want to restrict the type of information that can be input in response to your RFP questions. For example, you may wish to perform further analysis on answers input by respondents to your RFP:

  • Price information, and you wish to compare prices between respondents
  • Financial background information
  • Technical details about the product or service being sourced

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Collaborate with Vendors to Maintain Reference Data

March 25th, 2010

“Reference Projects”, is a new feature added to SupplierSelect which enables vendors and buyers to build a set of reference information free from the restrictions of the standard tendering or RFx process.

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