Acceptable Supplier Qualification Requirement Values

You can specify what values are acceptable to suppliers who respond to requirement questions.

You can define three types of requirements. These control the response options available to you supplier when responding to the requirement.

• Text entry box - the supplier enters one or more lines of text into the input field.

• Multiple choice/Single selection - the supplier selects a single response from the list of possible choices.

• Multiple choice/Multiple selection - the supplier selects one or more responses from the list of possible choices.

Acceptable Values Matrix

This table shows how the interaction of requirement type, value type, and scoring method interact to control whether and what kind of acceptable values you can define:

Requirement Type	Value Type	Scoring Method	Acceptable Value Allowed
Text entry box	Number	All Methods	Not Allowed
Text entry box	Date	All Methods	Not Allowed
Text entry box	Data and time	All Methods`	Not Allowed
Multiple choice/Single selection	Single line text	All methods	Allowed
Multiple choice/Multiple selection	Single line text	All methods	Allowed

Note the following about the table:

• For both multiple choice requirement types, the initial value type is single line text and can't be changed. For those requirement types, you can define acceptable values for any scoring method. You define the acceptable values as a list of entries from which the supplier will select.

• Also for multiple choice requirements types, you can use the Attachments from Suppliers field to allow the supplier to include an attachment for each different acceptable value.

Specifying Target Values

You can optionally identify one of your acceptable values as the target value for that requirement, and you can choose to display the target to your suppliers. To designate a target value:

1. Highlight the value in the Acceptable Values table.

2. From the Actions menu, select Set as Target.