Best Value Reverse Auction or Negotiated
eCommerce
> Enables the buying organization or its
agents to electronically tender the buyer’s eRFX for private
bidding in a "Value-Indexed" reverse auction engine.
Of the pre-qualified vendors/suppliers, only those that are specifically
invited are given access to the bidding event
The auction engine automatically
combines the non-price value ranking (see RFP evaluation Process)
with the total cost of ownership bid to generate a rank-order
composite Value Index for each vendor/supplier. The buyer or its
agents can then select the best value vendor/supplier based on
the composite of the non-price (qualitative) ranking and the total
cost of ownership (quantitative) ranking.
This functionality allows the buyer to select
the vendor/supplier based on overall BEST VALUE ranking.