When a Buyer invites you to be an Evaluator on their Request or Tender, you will receive an email containing a link to complete your evaluation of the Supplier responses. You do not need to be a VendorPanel user to complete an evaluation.

Starting the Evaluation

Within the email, click the Click here link to access the evaluation. If you leave the evaluation part way through, you can return to your evaluation by clicking on the same link in the email.

Viewing the Supplier Responses

On the first page of the MPE, you will see the Request documents that the Buyer has given you access to. These may include some or all of the documents related to the Request, such as List documents, the RFx documents, and the Supplier responses.

You can download all these documents by clicking the Download all files listed below (zip archive) link positioned below the 'Documentation' heading.

Once you have reviewed the documents, click the Get Started button to begin the individual response evaluations.

Scoring the Responses

When evaluating the responses, any documents specific to that Supplier’s response will appear above the evaluation fields.

Fill out the required fields and add comments as necessary. To progress onto the next Supplier response, click the tab below with the next Supplier’s name and response ID.

Saving your Evaluation

Once you have completed each response evaluation, click the 'Save' button to submit your decision.

If the buyer managing the evaluation has not moved to the Consensus step in the Multi-Party Evaluation yet, then you can return to the MPE (using the link in your email), and click 'Edit your responses' to return to the evaluation step. Once the buyer moves to the Consensus step, you will no longer be able to edit your evaluation.