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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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 now enables you to embed images within your RFP questions.

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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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This describes some of the ways in which web based software can help public sector organisations comply with common regulations. This article draws upon our experience of working with public sector organisations in Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to provide some ideas for how to use eSourcing and eRFX software in public sector tenders.

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Running an RFP / RFx project through SupplierSelect involves evaluating vendors or suppliers through the use of surveys or questionnaires. Building a questionnaire for the first time - designing the questions, creating sections and subsections is perhaps the most time consuming aspect of using SupplierSelect. This article describes some of the features designed to make this process a little easier.

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Dynamic Questions use a predefined set of “Topics” to generate large questions by repeating question rows for each Topic. To illustrate this feature, suppose your company ships its goods to many countries around the world. You wish to conduct an RFx to evaluate shipping companies. When building the question, you notice that you often need to collect information for each country you ship to:

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