Setting up an eBid is straight forward and will eliminate a lot of the possible confusion that can come with paper submissions. When you create a new bid, on step 1 of the process, it will ask you to select whether or not this will be an eBid.

If you select "No" nothing will change and the bid creation process will look [like this]. If you select "Yes", an additional step will called "eBidding Info" be added as step 2 in the bid creation process. The rest of the bid creation will remain the same.

In this newly added second step, first you must select what level of "sealed" you would like supplier responses to be. We recommend "Restricted Visibility" or "Partially Unsealed" so you can quickly see the names of the suppliers and which files they have submitted as part of the response. Regardless of what option you select you will not be able to access the specific documents or see the pricing information until the due date.

After you select which sealed level you would like, you can select the documents that will be required for submissions. Check any boxes that you would like suppliers to submit.

And lastly, after the document selection will be two additional options. One will allow you to give suppliers the ability to submit additional files that you have not requested. The other will force them to submit a bid amount when adding their submission. Click "Next" to move on to the next step of the bid creation process.

If you would like to review this process, check out the video below