Entry of Best and Final Offer in Supplier Portal

If a Supplier was chosen as a best and final Supplier, they have an open Event response where they need to update their bid price. The main menu in Supplier Portal displays an alert indicating there are unsubmitted Best and Final Offer responses. Click the Unsubmitted Best And Final Responses link to open a form that displays responses that need updated pricing information.

To update a price, navigate to the specific form for entering line responses and click the Enter Best And Final Pricing Only button. To update all items in a response, click the Enter All Best And Final Information button.

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To clarify what Suppliers need to work on and watch for their responses, the unsubmitted responses that are still able to be submitted are shown in the My Responses section. Submitted or withdrawn responses that can still be awarded for open or award pending events are shown on the Responses Open For Award tab. Responses for events that have been closed or cancelled or where the event is pending award but the response was never submitted are on the Historical Responses tab.

Once the Supplier has updated pricing information and submitted their response, the responses can be viewed and awarded in the Analysis forms. Click the Analyze best and final link to open the Analysis forms.

The Award process now works the same as it does for any Event with following differences on the forms:

  1. Only the Suppliers who were selected for Best and Final Offer processing and submitted pricing amounts are displayed.
  2. There is a button to view all of the initial Best and Final Responses.
  3. The initial response amounts are displayed both on the analysis forms and the initial responses list.