Our Products and Services
eRFx = eRFI eRFP eRFQ eRFT
An online tender and quotation system for buyers to request information and price quotations. Suppliers respond online and the data collected forms a comprehensive database of information for efficient current and future supplier evaluation.
The Trade Interchange eRFX solution provides your organisation with a fully featured instant e-procurement solution. As a securely hosted service, the Trade Interchange eRFX system requires no internal implementation - just a web browser and access to the internet.
Available in packages for output rates of 5 to 500 eRFX publications per year, you will receive an exclusive, branded eRFX web site, full training and unlimited help desk support throughout the period of your contract. A standard monthly fee is levied depending on the package required.
Significant Time Saving and Reduced Sourcing Cycle Times
- Easy accessibility and re-use of questions and clauses
- Instant distribution
- Instant update distribution
- Side by side response evaluation, identically formatted
- Easier and faster for suppliers - Tick the boxes and re-use of statements from prior responses
Improved Collaboration
- One, central point for all RFX documentation
- Simultaneously accessible by stakeholders, procurement team members and suppliers (when live)
- Multiple simultaneous contributors
- Live monitoring and management of RFX development progress and supplier response progress
Improved Business Practices and Efficiency
- Automatic central RFX management and storage system
- Web based systems - no internal IT overhead
- Inbuilt access security
- Inbuilt security against loss of data
- Improved procurement policy compliance
- Improved accuracy of RFX specifications and supplier responses
- Improved stakeholder confidence and participation
Environment
- An average sized paper tender uses 10kgs (3.5 reams) of paper (includes responses and wastage)
- 100 paper tenders consume 1 tonne of paper
- It takes 26 trees to make 1 tonne of office paper
- Manufacturing, transport and destruction of 1 tonne of paper produces 3000kgs of CO2 emissions
- It takes 1 tree to produce 15 reams (3 boxes) of paper
- Every 4 paper tenders = 1 tree and 120kg of CO2
