Set Up the Public Sourcing Site

To enable this functionality, submit a customer care case in Community for Strategic Sourcing Instance Management and select the Enable Feature
option. Specify the

public_bid_site

feature flag, the Sourcing module, and the name of the environment where you want to enable the flag. You can find environment names in your company profile in

Settings

You can publish your sourcing opportunities to the public to ensure sourcing events are competitive and transparent. Published public events are on your site until you delete them. You can also publish contracts to your public sourcing site. Anyone can view the information you add to the site without signing in to or registering for Strategic Sourcing.

Access

Public Site Options

from

Settings

. You can use the

Public Site URL

to access your public sourcing site.

(Optional) In the

Procurement Link

section, enter the URL you want to direct users to when they leave your public sourcing site homepage. The URL displays as a button on your public sourcing site. You can customize the button label.

(Optional) Enable the Project IDs
or Event IDs
option to display the IDs on your public sourcing site. Displaying IDs can help with referencing specific projects or events.

(Optional) Enable the Display active contracts in your public sourcing site
option. To display contracts, you must enable the Public Visibility
option on each individual contract. You can also use the

Data Importer

to update the Public Visibility
option.

Access the contract type you want to enable the Public Visibility
option for.

Select the

Contract

check box for the

Public Visibility

row in the

Contract Summary

section. A Public Visibility
option displays on your contracts. When you enable

Public Visibility

for a contract, you can also select which contract documents display on your public sourcing site.

(Optional) To convert your legacy public events to display in your public sourcing site, click

Find Legacy Public Bids

Select the events that you want to convert. You can only convert groups of events based on the event status.

Click

Convert

. Converted legacy public events display on your public sourcing site.

You can only convert legacy public events in Strategic Sourcing. You can't convert legacy public events from other systems.

Potential suppliers can access your public sourcing site when you share the

Public Site URL

Add the

Public Site URL

to the procurement page of your organization.