Request for alternative offers

You can give suppliers the opportunity to submit alternative offers. On the General tab, in the Alternative Bids field, choose Yes.

 

To use this feature, you need to define columns / attributes that will accept alternative inputs from supplier. To do so, open the 'Specificaion elements of RFx' window and add 'Additional specification elements'.

Click on the circle icon in front of the name of the specification element (see above picture) to define whether the element will accept alternative values (white circle) or not (red circle). To enable the vendor to insert an alternative value for this element, you have to select a white circle.

For example, if you're creating an RFx for vehicles and you add a column Model to your RFQ table (with line items containing predefined values BMW and Mercedes), you can place that element in the 'Additional specification elements' list and mark it with a white circle. In this way, suppliers will be able to insert an alternative line item and enter their own values for the Model field (e.g. Audi) .

The next (optional) step is to uploading documents.