Use of Questions and Answers in Responses and Awards page in RFX in SRM7.0

[Former Member]

HI Experts ,

In SRM7.0, we have new functionality Responses and Awards for RFx Resonses andother things . There we have obne function or button Questions and Answers , where we it seems we can send some Message to all or selected Contact Person of the Bidder .....

1. Can anyone suggest/confirm, that if above is True , then how message sent to Bidders Contact Person(s) ...by e-mail ?

2. And whether that Bidders Contact Person(s) can send/reply to Puchasers Message (i.e. 2 way communiction) ?

3. If yes..then HOW ..I means by e-mail or log in to SRM Bidding Engine ...

Thanks in advance.

Regards

NAP

[Former Member]

To my knowledge Q&A is not for chat or sent message to bidder this is the criteria which we are fixing to assess vendor apart from the point material price.

Thanks & Regards

Rajendran

[Former Member]

Hi Narendra,

If you are using Surrogate Bidding means Supplier submitting bid behalf of Bidder. So in this case Why Q&A is required while Supplier submitting bid? Correct me if I am wrong.

Regards,

Abhijeet

[Former Member]

Thanks Abhi.

1st let me correct ur sentance , it may casue confusion to other " you are using Surrogate Bidding means Purchaser submitting bid behalf of Bidde So in this case Why Q&A is required while Purchaser submitting bid? "

You are right ! In practical/actual in surrogate bidding , it will NOT requiered at all (since Bidder will unable to access Bidding Engine and taht why we are using Surrogate Bidding option )

But, here, as I mentioned earlier, we didn't configured mail server yet and in Sandbox it is not in scope.....but I need to test all functionalities in SRM as a query to client and my curiosity as well....and thats why I am using Surrogate Bidding option .

So,

1. Can you confirm , whether Bidder have the same screen.window of "Question and Answer" ?

2.Is it possible to submit the Bid just like Bidder ( not Surrogate Bidding), by using his User id & password without configuring e-mail server ? Where to find the URL to access Bid Engine ?... I got the URL in mail ( SOST transction)..but thats not working...

Thanks

NAP

[Former Member]

Hi Guys,

Any news on this please ?