To assign potential bidders to the selected engineering requisition, you can use the Suggested Bidders tab. When the engineering requisition has been created from the requisition planning, the list of potential bidders assigned to the requisition planning is taken over to the suggested bidders of the requisition. The suggested bidders can be modified or new bidders can be added.
If the bidder you want to assign to the requisition does not exist in the system, you can enter the bidder and the company name and save it. Such bidders are stored in this Suggested Bidders tab only and are not populated throughout the system, meaning they will not be available for selection for other requisitions. Such bidders, manually created in the Suggested Bidders folder, will be highlighted with the cyan background color in the Company Name and Bidder fields.
The suggested bidders assigned to the requisition are not taken over to the inquiry
when the requisition has been released to procurement; and there will be no relationships
between suggested bidders and inquiry bidders.
To restrict the list of bidders to those who are assigned to a specific material/work group, you can select this material/work group from the LOV in the Matl/Work Group field. The revision of the material/work group will be displayed in the Rev field. Now select the bidder’s company name from the LOV in the Company Name field. If no material/work group was selected, the LOV will display all companies pre-defined on P.20.01; otherwise, only companies with the selected material/work group assigned are available. The bidder name is automatically populated from the selected company. Double-click in the Company Name or Bidder field to open the P.20.01 Suppliers/Subcontractors screen.
In the Address Type field, you can select a pre-defined address type from the LOV. With the selected address type, the Location Code, Address, City, Country Code, State or Prov, and the Zip or Postal Code fields are filled automatically.
The Approved indicator shows whether the bidder has been approved. The Qualified indicator shows whether the bidder has been marked as qualified for the selected material/work group on the P.20.01 Suppliers/Subcontractors screen on the Material/Work Groups tab, with the qualified date shown in the Qualified Date field.