Expressive Bidding®
Often in the bidding process, suppliers are not given the option to offer bids that leverage their strengths and competitive advantages. CombineNet Energy's Expressive Bidding capabilities encourage suppliers to provide you with their absolute best proposals, providing flexibility and creativity in the way they respond to your RFP. As a feature of CombineNet Energy's ASAP framework, Expressive Bidding allows suppliers to align their capabilities to your companies needs to deliver lower total cost and more total value.
Rather than bidding on pre-lotted bundles or rigid definitions of items, suppliers provide proposals based on their unique strengths and capabilities, including Expressive Bids that can include conditional (if/then) offers, volume discounts, packages of items (bundles), and other creative offers that take advantage of their strengths. They can leverage what makes them strong, passing on the benefits to you. Put another way, their innovations and efficiencies get expressed in better, more valuable and less costly solutions.
With Expressive Bidding, suppliers drive the inefficiencies out of their own business and share the savings with buyers, simultaneously strengthening strategic relationships for long-term supply chain efficiencies and competitive advantage.