Types of Bid Questions

You can create the following types of bid questions:

• Date

• List

• Monetary

• Numeric

• Price

• Text

• Yes/No

Date, monetary, and numeric questions all require you to use the Best Response and Worst Response fields to create a range of possible responses. You can specify whether bidders can enter a value that is outside of the range.

List questions require you to set up a list of possible responses and corresponding weights. You can specify whether bidders can select multiple values from the list. An example of a list question is: "What are the available sizes of your product?"

When you create price questions, you can create a list of components so that bidders must break out their price by components, such as shipping and handling. Each event line must have at least a price question attached to it, and each line can have only one price question. You must create a default price question so that the system can assign the default question if you do not assign one. You must also enter the default price question in the Sourcing Constants program.

See Setting Up System Constants for Operational Sourcing.

When you create text questions, you create open-ended questions and you specify an ideal response. An example of a text question is: "What is your quality control process?"

You also create an ideal answer when you set up yes/no questions. You must specify whether the ideal response is yes or no. An example of a yes/no question is: "Is your company ISO certified?"