Vendor Evaluation
Run the whole evaluation in one place. Vendors included.
Live RFP, RFI and RFQ inside Olive: a vendor portal, one shared Q&A thread, compartmentalized responses, no email chains.
Live RFx
A live evaluation, not an exported document
Run your RFP, RFI or RFQ inside Olive. Vendors answer your requirements in the same place and the same format, and your team reads the answers as they arrive. Nothing leaves as a file that has to be chased, merged and compared by hand.
Building your requirements and shortlisting vendors is free. Inviting vendors to respond is part of an upgrade. See how an RFP runs in Olive
“Vendors come to the meeting with their slide deck, walk through the steps, and probably skip important parts because the process becomes monotonous for them. That means I don't get everything out of it and walk away with extra questions. I wouldn't have those gaps if we just used a digital RFP like Olive.”
Anthony Mejia, Vice President Information Technology, Zippy's
Questions
One question thread for every vendor
A vendor asks a clarifying question once. You answer it once, and every vendor sees the answer. No vendor works from different information, and nobody answers the same email five times.
Scope
Show each vendor only what applies to them
Not every vendor is bidding on the whole scope. Limit what each one sees and answers to the part it covers, and keep its responses separate from the rest.
For vendors
One place for vendors too
Vendors get one place to read your requirements, ask questions and respond. A vendor sets up its profile once and uses it for every evaluation it is invited to.
Timeline
Why the timeline holds
The delays in an evaluation come from waiting: for answers, for meetings, for someone to compile the results. When the answers and the scoring are in one place, those waits shrink.
“In the early phases, from product selection to product review, we're cutting our time in half from where it used to be with the implementation of Olive. It's cutting out a lot of the mistakes we were making before and eliminating time-consuming emails and file transfers.”
Anthony Mejia, Vice President Information Technology, Zippy's