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