Use Automatic Award Recommendation

While suppliers are responding to the negotiation, the application maintains a suggested award recommendation. You can view this recommendation while the negotiation is open and suppliers are still responding.

After you have closed the negotiation to responding, you can have the application generate the automatic award recommendation. Requirement scores aren't considered in the automatic award recommendation.

This recommendation considers response price and responses to automatically scored line attributes, if multi-attribute scoring is used. It does not consider the effects of supplier responses to price breaks or quantity based tiers. Requirement scores are also not considered in the automatic award recommendation.

Once the automatic award recommendation is generated, you can close the negotiation and accept it to use for your award decisions.

Use Automatic Award Recommendation

1. Access the negotiation. From the Actions menu on the negotiations summary page, select the Award option.

2. On the Award Negotiation page, select View Automatic Award Recommendation from the Actions menu.

3. Review the details of the recommended award decision. The Automatic Award Recommendation page shows which suppliers were selected by the application, how many units were awarded to each, and the savings obtained.

4. If you are satisfied with the application's recommended award decisions, click Accept Recommendation.

5. When you are returned to the Award Negotiation page, you can click Complete Award to continue and generate purchasing documents.