Procurement · Sourcing

The reason you settle
for one quote.

It is administratively expensive to get three. One inquiry goes to every vendor you want quoting, and they answer through a tokenised link with no account to create and no password to reset.

This is the part that makes three quotes cheap. Everything downstream depends on actually having them.

The inquiry

Raised once, sent to many.

One inquiry, many vendorsThe same request, so the replies are comparable by construction rather than by re-typing.
Your item namesA master list with synonyms and per-vendor names, so one part quoted under three descriptions still lands in one row.
Decisions recordedInquiry decisions kept against the inquiry, which is what makes the reasoning survive the month.
The vendor side

A portal, not a login.

Tokenised linkNo account, no password, nothing to chase before quoting can start.
Only their own lineA vendor sees what they were asked and what they quoted. Not the other vendors, and not their prices.
Quotes as recordsReturned into the system rather than into an inbox, which is what makes comparison possible at all.
Vendor catalogue

Ask the vendors who can supply it.

Catalogue access by linkVendors maintain what they can supply through a tokenised link, saving a draft and submitting when ready.
Links you issue and revokeGenerated per vendor, listed, and removable — so access ends when the relationship does.
Status readableWhether a vendor has started, saved a draft or submitted, without emailing to ask.
Nearby

Related capabilities.

Quote comparison · Vendor management · Purchase orders

Ask three. It costs almost nothing.

And the second quote usually pays for the whole system.

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