Open Tender Special Services Service Provider Feasibility Checks

This feature extends the service provider open tender feasibility checks related to special services to include two additional special service check options: 

• If at least one of the special services required on the shipment is provided by the service provider, then the service provider is considered feasible.
• If the service provider provides no special services and the shipment requires a special services, then the service provider is considered infeasible.  

These additional options augment the previously available feasible/infeasible service provider and shipment special services open tender options:

• The service provider is considered feasible if the service provider does not specify any special services.
• The service provider is considered feasible if the shipment does not require any special services.
• The service provider is considered feasible if the service provider provides all the special services required by the shipment.

The two newly available options and the original validation options are controlled using the property “glog.tender.opentender.servProvRuleCheck”. When this property is set to true, for open tenders (spot bid tender and broadcast tender), the list of feasible service providers is validated against the service providers shipment equipment group, special service, and country codes compatibility check. This enhancement extends the configuration for the special service validation check.

When configured, the new feature provides additional controls for defining the feasibility/infeasibility of a service provider for an open tender based on the set of special services supported by the service provider and the set of special services listed on the shipment.

Steps to Enable

To take advantage of the new options you first need to set the property, glog.tender.opentender.servProvRuleCheck, to true. Then, for the newly enabled functionality you have two new properties to further refine how the system validates the list of feasible service providers.

The first property available is the glog.tender.opentender.servProvRuleCheck.matchAtleastOneSpecialServiceCode property. When this property is set to true (and the property glog.tender.opentender.servProvRuleCheck is also set to  true), a service provider will be considered to be feasible for an open tendered shipment with special services, if the service provider provides at least one matching special service with the shipment's special services.

The second property available is glog.tender.opentender.servProvRuleCheck.servprovFeasibleWithNoSpecialServiceCodes. Previously, the interpretation for the setup with no special service provided by the service provider and the service provider rule check property glog.tender.opentender.servProvRuleCheck to true was: The service provider would be considered feasible if the service provider did not specify any special service. Now, when the property glog.tender.opentender.servProvRuleCheck.servprovFeasibleWithNoSpecialServiceCodes is set to false and the service provider has no special services specified, the service providers will be considered infeasible for open tenders.