Steps: Submit a Bid on a Public Sourcing Site

You can submit a bid proposal to an event on the public bid site of a buyer. You can also use commodity codes to receive information about public events that are related to your organization. Sourcing teams request suppliers to provide pricing and line item quotes.

(Optional) Search for the event on the public sourcing site. You can use quotations to find exact matches for your keywords.

On the public sourcing site, click

Bid

next to the event you want to submit a bid proposal to.

Create Bid Proposals.

Buyers can label events as Restricted
so that only invited suppliers can access them. When you click

Bid

for a Restricted
event, you can't access the event unless you were invited.

The sourcing manager receives an email to notify them that you’ve submitted your bid. You can submit incomplete bids, however, it's up to the sourcing manager to determine whether to accept an incomplete proposal.

You can view the status of your submission on the bid event, including the date and time of the submission.

If you want to change your bid and it's before the bid submission deadline, change your bid by clicking

Revise Bid

on the event. After you make your revisions, click

Resubmit Bid

If you want to revise the bid proposal but it's after the deadline, contact your sourcing manager directly.

Respond to requests from the sourcing manager.

Depending on the bid proposal, the sourcing manager can request, by email or chat, further clarification on your bid submission. Use the

Revise Bid

button on the bid event to edit the proposal and respond to the update request.