Our organization processes approximately 2600 request for quotations a year. Bid tabulations are shared via a public portal showing who bid, bid accepted, pricing, etc... In public sector, this is a critical transparency with constituents.
It is inevitable that the following scenarios occur when processing this many RFQs:
- The accepted bid vendor (for a variety of reasons) cannot fulfil the order and it become necessary for us to accept a bid from another vendor on the RFQ. We currently have no way to "unaccept" the first vendor's bid.
- The user mistakenly accepts the wrong vendor bid, and then needs to accept the correct bid. We currently have no way to correct an RFQ when the user mistakenly accepts the wrong vendor bid.
This leads to inaccurate information within the RFQ (and subsequently our portal) indicating that two vendor bids were accepted when in fact only one vendor bid should show as accepted. We simply have no way today to correct (reject or decline, etc..) a bid once its been accepted.
Please add a means to "cancel/decline/reject" an accepted bid within the RFQ so data is reflected correctly within the RFQ and RFQ reply records.
Administrator on 3/17/2023 1:40:27 PM
Thank you very much for your input. We do not have any plans to extend this capability, we will however continue to monitor how much in demand such a capability is.