Supplier Hub

Each RFQ can define evaluation stages (technical, commercial, legal, final). Assigned evaluators score each quote against the default weighted criteria — Price 30%, Quality 25%, Delivery Time 20%, Vendor Experience 15%, and Support & Service 10% (an RFI drops Price) — and each quote's completed scores are averaged; with Rank Quotes by Evaluation Score on, Compare orders quotes by that average, otherwise lowest total first. The Evaluation Method is recorded on the RFQ and does not change how Compare ranks quotes. You can require a minimum number of evaluators, require comments, and turn on blind mode to show "Vendor #id" instead of supplier names on the scoring and comparison screens until the award.

Quotes, yes. An invited vendor signs in to the Vendor Portal with an emailed one-time code and submits their own pricing, questionnaire answers, and documents — that submission becomes the same quote record the buyer evaluates, with nothing re-keyed. An internal user can still enter a quote on a vendor's behalf, and the two paths can be mixed within one RFQ. Questions are the exception: vendors can view and respond to a solicitation but cannot raise questions from the portal, so those are still captured internally from the RFQ's Q&A tab. Confidential bid pricing stays restricted to managers and app admins, and an answer can be kept private to the asker or broadcast to all invited vendors for fairness.

You can require single-vendor justification, block issuing an RFQ whose estimated value is above a finance threshold, and require award justification; issuing is always limited to managers and above, plus Supplier Hub app admins. These run as gates at issue/award time rather than a routed submit-for-approval inbox — an RFQ blocked by the finance threshold can be issued once its value drops or an admin raises the threshold.

Yes. Supplier Hub, Procurement, Asset Pro, and Contracts share the same vendor record, so no vendor sync is needed. When an RFQ is awarded, Supplier Hub can raise a Procurement requisition from the winning quote (when the Procurement app is enabled and the setting is on) and — if the Contracts app is enabled — auto-create a draft Contract, carrying the line items across. RFIs are information-only and are never converted into a contract.

Yes. Save any RFQ as a reusable template — including its line items and questions — and spin up new solicitations from it. A shared question library lets you search, reuse, and track popular questions across RFQs, and every RFQ's evaluators score against the same default criteria, so committees evaluate consistently.

The Supplier Hub Ask AI assistant is read-only. It looks up vendors, RFQs, quotes, and vendor performance and answers questions about them — for example "how many preferred suppliers do we have" or "which RFQs are under evaluation." It does not create, issue, or award RFQs; those actions stay in the buyer's hands in the app UI.

Yes, as PDF, CSV or Excel. The export carries three sections: Overview (RFQ counts, quotes received, average quotes per RFQ, conversion rate, average time to award, active vendors), Financial Performance (total RFQ value, awarded value, average savings), and Top Vendors by Awards. Spend by category is shown on the dashboard itself rather than in the export file.

Qualification and risk scores, insurance/license expiry, diverse-supplier certifications, performance scorecards across quality/delivery/price/service/responsiveness, a product catalog with volume pricing, and full quote history — giving each supplier a complete profile that feeds analytics and future awards.