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Invitation To Tender module concepts
A tender is a logical container that holds all the information related to a tender that needs to be communicated to one or more vendors. The tender has the overall start and end dates defined and it contains one or more iterations.
Iterations are logical containers that exist within a tender that contains one or more questionnaires including a list of users. The iteration has a start and end date. If you need users to respond to the same requirements multiple times, for example when you have multiple negotiations rounds, then you can create an iteration per negotiation round. The Invitation To Tender module has various types of analysis you can apply to the different responses.
A requirement based questionnaire contains a list of requirements that you select from the Requirements module. You then create one or more questions and these questions are then repeated for each requirement that you have selected.
A regular questionnaire contains one or more questions to which the user can either reply with a free text answer or with a selection from a predefined list.
Browse and edit is an interface that is available to review all the data submitted by users participating in the various iterations. This interface can also be used to specify comments for theindividual replies.
Quantitative analysis is used to sum up questionnaire answers received from users for a certain iteration. It could, for example, be used to isolate answers when users select if they were compliant, “Yes” or “No”, if prices were specified by users, and so forth. Afterward, the total statistics for the different questionnaires and users are immediately available in a graphical format and exportable to Microsoft Excel.
Qualitative analysis is based on a detailed evaluation of each reply to a requirement. The replies are reviewed and can then be scored using any best-practice system. This score can then be comparedto the quantitative analysis and this provides the basis for a drill down to the data of interest.