This article shows you as a buyer how to find the bids that have come in, and what to do before you start assessing them.
Find the bids
Open the procurement from the list under Procurements.
Select the Bids tab. The number in brackets is how many you have received.
The table shows the Supplier, the Status, when the bid was Submitted, and which Documents the supplier attached.
ℹ️ Note: Bids stay locked until the deadline has passed. Before that you can see that a bid has been submitted, but not its content. This is the same for every supplier, so no one can gain an advantage.
Check the minimum requirements first
Before comparing the bids, you go through whether they meet what you asked for at all. Select Start the minimum requirements review.
You go through one requirement at a time per supplier and say whether it is met. A bid that fails a minimum requirement should not continue, and you save the time of assessing it.
Then you evaluate
Once the minimum requirements are reviewed, continue to the Evaluation tab. There you score each criterion, and the solution works out the ranking for you.
Next
See Evaluate and score for how to score bids and find the winner.