Is e-Request a fit for your procurement?
Five questions from our first calls. Answer them for yourself and you will know before the meeting whether one is worth it.
The five questions
- 1
How many tenders do you run per month?
From about five, the structure pays off.
- 2
How many suppliers do you work with regularly?
From about twenty, managing them becomes the issue.
- 3
How many people are involved in an award decision?
From three people onward, independent evaluation pays for itself.
- 4
Are you subject to WTO procedures, or does procurement run below the threshold?
Our field is everything below the threshold — private sector and invitation procedures.
- 5
What happens today when a supplier asks a question during a tender?
If the answer is uncomfortable, you are in the right place.
When we advise against it
- Fully WTO-regulated procedures — that is the field of simap.ch and cosinex, not ours.
- Architecture and construction offices needing AVA software — a different product field.
- Looking for a marketplace or for new suppliers — we do not broker suppliers.
- Looking for an ERP with ordering and invoicing — we stop at the contract.
- A qualified electronic signature with a provider other than Skribble — signing runs through your own Skribble account, other providers are not connected.
This page deliberately calculates no savings: e-Request does not record savings data, so any number here would be an estimate.