CHAPTER 7: REVIEW RESPONSES AND PRODUCE SHORTLIST
Once you’ve received all the responses, you and the team need to spend time reviewing them. Then you can agree (hopefully) a shortlist of around three options.
This chapter covers:
- how to review the responses
- example summary of responses document template
- how to shortlist
- what to do if a decision cannot be reached
- advising the rejected suppliers.
How to review the responses
You won’t be surprised to hear that you need to read the responses and fill in your criteria sheets, including scoring if you decided to do that.
This sounds easy and straightforward! And with a few responses it will be. Some suppliers will be very good at answering your RFI clearly, with details in the order in which you ...
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