Concept: Public Sourcing Site
The public sourcing site is an external website that contains solicitation, awarded bid, and awarded contract details so that you can provide fair, open, and transparent sourcing opportunities. You can still create private events if you enable the public sourcing site.
On the public sourcing site, suppliers can:
- Search your public sourcing events and contracts. Suppliers can use quotation marks to get exact match search results.
- Participate in an event. This is no different than participating in a standard, private event.
- View event statuses and outcomes.
You can still share the public link to a specific RFP, but you need to go to the public site to get that link. Strategic Sourcing doesn't expose the public link in the event builder.
The public site is meant to provide enough information to the public so that the appropriate suppliers can decide to bid. This information includes:
- Any files attached to the event.
- Award information for already awarded opportunities.
- Commodity codes.
- Important due dates or milestone dates.
- Status, such as Open, Closed, or Awarded.
Events on the public bid site display until you delete them.
Submit a customer care case in Community for Strategic Sourcing Instance Management to enable the public_bid_site feature flag. If you don’t have subdomains enabled in your tenant, Strategic Sourcing enables them when you have the public bid site enabled. Contact your IT department to ensure you and your stakeholders can access new subdomains.
Commodity Codes
When you add commodity codes to your public events, Strategic Sourcing sends out solicitations to certain suppliers. These suppliers have the same commodity codes associated with their profiles.
Contracts
The
Contracts
tab displays contract record information when a contract enters the Active status. Suppliers and other public users can view:
- Contract end date.
- Contract ID.
- Contract start date.
- Description.
- Supplier name.
- Title.
- Type.
Updates made to an active contract directly or through revisions display on the public bid site. When a contract enters a non-active status, the contract record no longer displays on the public bid site.