Introduction to Vendor Evaluation 

The following sections introduce you to the concept of vendor evaluation. They discuss the function of the individual elements that you must be familiar with in order to evaluate a vendor, and give you an overview of the process of computing scores.

For more detailed information on the internal computations the system performs once you have invoked the vendor evaluation function, please refer to the section How the System Computes Scores.

How you proceed in order to perform a vendor evaluation is described in the section Evaluating Vendors

Elements of Vendor Evaluation

Overall Score

Main Criterion

Subcriterion

Scoring Range

Weighting of Scores

Determining Scores

Determining the Overall Score

Determining Scores for Main Criteria

Determining Scores for Subcriteria

Changing Scores Manually