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 50, 100, 200, 500 or 1,000 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
