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Software Requirements Specification (SRS) e- tendering 1.
Introduction
eTendering in its simplest form, is described as the electronic publishing, communicating, accessing, receiving and submitting of all tender-related information and documentation via the Internet, thereby replacing the traditional processes, and achieving a more efficient and effective business process for all parties involved. Definition of e-tendering
1.1
Tendering is a method by which organizations acquire products and services and includes the following core activities: The advertisement of the requirement for goods or services, The preparation of tender documents (fixed format is also provided, which is optional to be used), The registration of suppliers to receive tender documents, The opening of responses to the tender, The evaluation of responses to the tender (partially automatic evaluation) The award of the contract. An electronic tendering (e-tendering) solution facilitates the complete tendering process from the advertising of the requirement through to the placing of the contract. This includes the exchange of all relevant documents in electronic format. 1.2
Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviation
Term Buyer Supplier, Bidder Quotation
2.
Definition the person who issues tender the person who submits quotations Response to the tender
General Description
2.1
Product Perspective
This website may be a standalone website if is used only up to submission of quotations phase. But if the later phases are also to be incorporated then it must be integrated with other websites for example for credit card details it must contact credit card handling website (credit cards are used as a means of epayment). Thus the two perspectives may be as follows. 1) Independent 2) Integrated 2.2
Importance of product
The traditional approach to tendering is often characterized as time consuming and expensive. This is because: • Advertisements for the required goods or services are placed in newspapers and journals,
incurring publication costs, • Tender documents are issued in hard copy format, incurring printing, copying and postage costs, • Tender responses are returned in hard copy, so that bidders incur printing, copying and postage costs etc. e-tendering can deliver savings and benefits to an organization by enhancing efficiency and control in the process of purchases of goods or services. Savings and benefits can be categorized into cashable and non-cashable.
Cashable benefits Cashable benefits result in a reduction in expenditure. In terms of e-tendering, cashable benefits are largely process efficiencies (time saved that results in headcount savings and hence reduced expenditure) and reductions in overhead costs incurred during the tendering process as stated above. These savings are achieved through automation of the tender process.
The main elements of overhead cost savings are printing, copying, paper, postage and stationery, which will mostly be avoided because tender documents and tender responses will be issued/received electronically.
This is also environmentally friendly since it reduces the use of paper.
e-Tendering can also release additional office space as contract documentation (required to be kept for at least the length of the contract period) can be stored online.
Non-cashable benefits This website will provide a range of non-cashable benefits: • it will lead to better management and/or co-ordination of the tender process. • it will enable a consistent tender process. Having one system shared across the organizations ensures that anyone involved in the tender process will work within a consistent and unambiguous framework. • The time spent analyzing numerical information (such as costs) is reduced. It will also have functionality that can immediately send out an email notification to suppliers who fail to provide all expected information. • this site will have the ability to create an evaluation report on each tender, including an outline of the methodology used in evaluating the tenders etc. • It is important for the tendering process in the public sector to be fair and for that fairness to be documented. This site will provide a secure history from advertising the tender to awarding a contract. This history encourages openness and integrity in all contractual decisions. •With a traditional tendering process, responses arriving late due to courier delay or Incorrect addressing would have been disqualified from the tendering process. This website will ensure this does not occur because suppliers receive an immediate confirmation by email that their tender has been received, thereby avoiding potential disputes and ill feeling. • less time taken to process responses for evaluation; means that less person time spent administering but also responses can be evaluated faster, so end-to-end tendering time is reduced.
2.3
Product Features
This website will give potential suppliers 24 hour a day access to view all tender opportunities including contract renewal dates, tender deadlines, status of tenders etc. Suppliers will be able to submit tender documents electronically on this site, thereby using the time that would have otherwise have had to be allowed for postal delivery to complete the response. As this is Internet based solution, suppliers will be able to easily view and engage in tendering opportunities without being constrained by location. this website will maintain an approved list of suppliers that have responded to previous tenders and categorizes them by set criteria, such as location and goods or services offered. This website will offer organizations to submit tenders online in electronic format thus saving their time of post delivery. the evaluation of responses to the tender will also be done on this site. Finally award of tender will be given to the selected party.
2.4
User Characteristics there will be three types of actors of this site (a) Buyers: the persons who are responsible for issuance of tenders (b) Suppliers: the persons who will submit their response for tender (c) Other users (unregistered): other people who only want to see the tenders but do
not want to respond.
3.
Basic Requirements.
3.1
. Allow buyer to post tender
3.2
Allow supplier to respond to the available tenders
3.3 User interface with a list of current tenders 3.4
Search facility based on various categories of tenders like organization, type of product etc.
3.5 This website will provide various templates for tender and quotation generation.
3.6 Controlled access to tenders using passwords, user profiles and permissions 3.7
Changes to the quotations
3.8
Repository of previous tenders
3.9 User interface with a list of response to a particular tender
3.10 Workflow functionality, which routes documents to appropriate people or alerts individuals of actions
in the system.
all the suppliers are notified that a tender of their interest is available if a supplier registers after a tender is submitted, then, a mail about the available tenders is also sent to him. Any notification is sent only once on an email id i.e. a track of sent mails is maintained in order to avoid repeatedly sending of mails and also not to annoy the supplier.
3.11All the suppliers are registered and all buyers are having list of suppliers according to the service that latter provides (or products that they can supply). When a tender is available then a notification through mail is sent to suppliers (who can give those kind of services) that a tender is available and if they want they can respond to it by clicking on the link provided in the mail 3.12 Collaboration facilities enabling a number of people to work on creating a tender document or to evaluate tenders 3.13Partially automated evaluation of tenders and award notification
4
Functional Requirements
Buyer 1. Login 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Enter username and password If forgotten password, enter username and answer security question If answer is correct, password will be sent to mail Id provided at the time of registration If security answer is not matching with username then, the person is not a valid user
2. Registration 2.1 enter account details 2.2 A confirmation mail is sent to the buyer(more than one email id may be provided by the supplier) 2.3 username and password will be sent through confirmation mail 2.4 confirm registration by clicking the link given in the confirmation mail 2.5 login by given username and password 2.6 if desired change username and password (no duplicate username is allowed) 3. Post tenders 3.1 Login with username and password 3.2 Select appropriate category and subcategory of tender 3.3 Enter all details corresponding to tender e.g. it’s location (i.e. in which it will operate) etc 3.4 Select tender that is to be uploaded 3.5 View tender before uploading it. 3.6 Upload tender 3.7 Enter threshold parameters which if not fulfilled by any quotation then a mail is sent to the quotation owner saying that you are not fulfilling the threshold requirements. 3.8 Enter preference parameters on which final top entries will be selected. 3.9 Enter weighatge of each preference parameter so that pointa got by tender quotations will get calculated. 3.10 After successful upload, a mail is sent to the buyer saying that the tender has been uploaded. 3.11 If finished logout 4. View responses to tenders (quotations) submitted by supplier 4.1 login with username and password
4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7
Select the tender whose response you want to see (there may be various tenders corresponding to one Buyer) Information (important points) corresponding all tender responses (quotations) will get displayed If desired, categorize them according to evaluation parameters entered at time of posting the tender These parameters cannot be altered after posting tenders Select any particular quotations and view it completely If finished, logout
5. Evaluate tender responses 5.1 View response to a particular tender 5.2 Arrange them according to evaluation parameters 5.3 Tenders will be evaluated as to whether all the Threshold parameters are satisfied. Tenders that meet these parameters will proceed to next stage. Tenders that do not meet threshold parameters will not be considered further. 5.4 At the next stage, select the tender which is best with respect to maximum number of preference parameters 5.5 Weightage may be provided to preference parameters depending on which preference parameter is how much important. 5.6 Five tenders( or ten dpeneding upon what number the tender owner want to be get selected) are selected which have got maximum points depending upon preference parameters. 5.7 Selectionn of final quotation will be done manually. 5.8 Declare that a particular tender has been selected 5.9 A mail is sent to the selected supplier saying that your tender response has been selected. 5.10 A mail is also sent to all other suppliers saying that your response was rejected 5.11 At the conclusion of the evaluation process, an evaluation report is prepared. This report will include: 5.11.1 An outline of the methodology used in evaluating the tenders; 5.11.2 An outline of the responses received; 5.11.3 Recommendations. 5.12 This report will be sent to all suppliers who have submitted their quotations for this particular tender 5.13 If finished, logout 6. Grade suppliers 6.1 Evaluate the tender responses 6.2 After assigning tender to a particular supplier (i.e. if he wins the tender bidding) the buyer may watch his performance and grade afterwards. 6.3 This grade assignment is compulsory. 6.4 This grade will be visible to all, including users, who are not the registered ones. 6.5 Overall grade of a particular supplier will depend upon grades given to him by all buyers. 6.6 If finished, logout 7.
Report Generation 7.1 a report can be generated whenever the tender owner wants to generate it. 7.2 This report includes… 7.2.1 No of supplires who opened the tender document 7.2.2 No of suppliers who downloaded the tender document 7.2.3 No of suppliers who submitted their quotation for tender 7.2.4 Microsoft excel worksheet which will have details of all quotations. 7.3 This report will be generated automatically when the tender evaluation is complete i.e. when the award the tender is given.
8. An online forum for each tender 8.1 enable buyers and suppliers to ask questions 8.2 seek clarifications relating to the notices that are published. 8.3 The forum is confidential and the suppliers details are only seen by tender owner.
8.4 Whenever there is a posting of question from supplier to the forum ,the tender owner will be automatically notified via email. 8.5 Buyer can then respond to the question via email or through online forum . 8.6 The buyer can decide about the time limit for which he want notifications of questions submitted in the forum. After the declared date notifications will not be sent to the buyer, but the forum can still be viewed. 9. Electronic tender box 9.1 this facility is optional for the buyer. if they want this kind of facility then they can use it 9.2 The suppliers upload their responses (files) to electronic tender box. 9.3 when the closing date and time for the tender expires, buyers are sent electronic keys. 9.4 buyer can then unlock his tender box and download/view the responses online. 9.5 this facility makes the provision that the buyers cannot view the quotations before the tender expires. 10. Access Help forum 10.1 online ‘help files’, ‘tutorials’ and ‘start-up guides’ 10.2 Help desk’ style of support available by phone and/or mail 10.3 An administrator is made available (by email) to assist registered suppliers with specific queries regarding the tender. 11. News paper advertising 11.1 this facility is optional. 11.2 this is used to place a summary advertisement of the tender in any number of selected newspapers. 11.3 the newspaper will be of your choice. 11.4 This buyer has to submit some amount of money to get this facility. 12.
Allows buyer to select his own suppliers (Closed Tenders ) 12.1 the closed tenders are the tenders which are meant for selected suppliers. 12.1 there will two ways of selecting suppliers . 12.2 the first way is to select manually, by using grading options. 12.3 the second way is based on suppliers profile held within the system. 12.4 In second way the system will match tender notice to all suppliers. 12.5 This matching will be based on their profile held within the system. 12.6 The matched list of suppliers will then be shown, to allow selection of the individual suppliers. 12.7 The tender notice information will automatically be sent to selected suppliers 12.8 this notification will contain a username and password which will be used to submit quotations. Supplier 1. Login 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Enter username and password If forgotten password, enter username and answer security question If answer is correct, password will be sent to mail id provided at the time of registration If security answer is not matching with username then, the person is not a valid user
2. Registration 2.1 Enter account details and email id (more than one email id may be provided by the supplier) 2.2 A confirmation mail is sent to the supplier 2.3 Username and password through confirmation mail 2.4 Confirm registration 2.5 Login by given username and password 2.6 If desired change username and password (no duplicate username is allowed) 3. View public tenders submitted by buyer
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6
Click on view public tenders Information (important points) corresponding all public tender will get displayed Threshold parameters will also get displayed Select any tender you want to view View complete tender If desired, download the tender
4. View private tenders submitted by buyerr 4.1. Login with username and password 4.2. Click on view private tenders 4.3. Information (important points) corresponding all private tender will get displayed 4.4. Threshold parameters will also get displayed 4.5. Select any tender you want to view 4.6. View complete tender 4.7. If desired, download the tender 5. Respond to tenders (enter quotations) 5.1. Login with username and password 5.2. Select the tender to which you want to respond 5.3. If tender is not closed then only the supplier can submit the quotation 5.4. Enter bid/quotations as a response 5.5. Pay 10% of the budget to the site (earnest money) 5.6. Payment will be made through credit card 5.7. Enter all details i.e. values of the parameters corresponding to your quotation 5.8. Select quotation that is to be uploaded 5.9. View quotation before uploading it. 5.10.Upload quotations 5.11.If required these quotations can be changed as many times before the tender is closed. 5.12.If the quotation is not fulfilling the threshold requirements then a mail is sent to the supplier. 5.13.After successful upload, a mail is sent to the supplier saying that the quotation has been uploaded. 5.14.If finished, logout 6. Garde buyer 6.1 Login with username and password 6.2 The supplier can grade only the buyer, who has selected his quotation i.e. who has selected him for supply. This grade assignment depends upon various parameters, which may include treatment etc. 6.3 This grade assignment is compulsory. 6.4 If finished, logout 7. Additional documents which can not be downloaded 7.1 7.2 7.3
If tenderer have documents that cannot be attached to tender notice such as large-scale drawings, or unusual file formats, suppliers can then request that these documents be sent to them when they view the notice online. This is a fully automated procedure. The system will generate an email to buyer showing the suppliers name and address details for buyer to forward the documents to via post or courier.
8. Access Help forum 8.1 Online ‘help files’, ‘tutorials’ and ‘start-up guides’ 8.2 Help desk’ style of support available by phone and/or mail 8.3 An administrator is made available (by email) to assist registered suppliers with specific queries regarding the tender. 9. Response to closed tenders 9.1 this response can be submitted only by supplier who have got a username and password sent through a mail by the buyer. 9.2 The supplier can then login by this username and password and submit quotation. 10. News paper advertising
10.1 this facility is optional. 10.2 this is used to place a advertisement of the services the supplier provides in any number of selected newspapers. 10.3 the newspaper will be of your choice. 10.4 This supplier has to submit some amount of money to get this facility. 11.
Notification to Suppliers 11.1 all the suppliers are notified that a tender of their interest is available 11.2 if a supplier registers after a tender is submitted, then, a mail about the available tenders is also sent to him. 11.3 Any notification is sent only once on an email id i.e. a track of sent mails is maintained in order to avoid repeatedly sending of mails and also not to annoy the supplier.
User (not registered) 1.
View rank given to buyer and supplier
2. View public tenders submitted by supplier 2.1. Click on view public tenders 2.2. Information (important points) corresponding all public tender will get displayed 2.3. Threshold parameters will also get displayed 2.4. Select any tender you want to view 2.5. View complete tender
5. Non- functional requirements 5.1
The site is highly secure so, security problems do not occur. Potential security problems may be the following ones 5.1.1
During registration
•
Integrity violation: Malicious parties may change, alter, or delete the registration form submitted by the buyer.
•
Confidentiality violation: The registration forms submitted by a buyer may contain companysensitive information. A malicious party may gain access to this material. 5.1.2 During Invitation to tender
•
Integrity violation: A malicious party may alter the tender specification document or advertising information. Thus suppliers may submit offers for the wrong project or fail to complete all requirements.
•
Masquerading or impersonation: A malicious party may impersonate the principal and issue a false tender advertisement, causing suppliers to waste time and money developing tender submission documents. 5.1.3
During Tender submission
•
Integrity violation: A malicious party can change; alter a submitted tender document prepared by the supplier.
•
Confidentiality violation: A malicious party can access sensitive information contained in the quotation documents. The malicious party could then prepare their own tender document undercutting other tender prices.
•
Impersonation: A malicious party can submit a false tender under the name of a legitimate supplier. The legitimate supplier may not be able to deny ownership of this false tender document. 5.1.4
•
During Tender evaluation
Integrity violation: A malicious party may gain access to the document during evaluation and alter the submitted tender document to favour a particular supplier 5.1.5
During award of tender
•
Integrity violation: A malicious party may alter the award of tender message so that an incorrect supplier is notified that they have won the tender.
•
Confidentiality violation: Sensitive information regarding the winning tender may be released.
•
Impersonation: A malicious party may impersonate the principal to send a fake tender award to an unsuccessful supplier or to notify the successful supplier that they did not win the tender.
•
Non-verifiable evidence: If no integrity and confidentiality service is in place, people cannot tell which award message is genuine.
Introduction
eTendering in its simplest form, is described as the electronic publishing, communicating, accessing, receiving and submitting of all tender-related information and documentation via the Internet, thereby replacing the traditional processes, and achieving a more efficient and effective business process for all parties involved. Definition of e-tendering
1.1
Tendering is a method by which organizations acquire products and services and includes the following core activities: The advertisement of the requirement for goods or services, The preparation of tender documents (fixed format is also provided, which is optional to be used), The registration of suppliers to receive tender documents, The opening of responses to the tender, The evaluation of responses to the tender (partially automatic evaluation) The award of the contract. An electronic tendering (e-tendering) solution facilitates the complete tendering process from the advertising of the requirement through to the placing of the contract. This includes the exchange of all relevant documents in electronic format. 1.2
Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviation
Term Buyer Supplier, Bidder Quotation
2.
Definition the person who issues tender the person who submits quotations Response to the tender
General Description
2.1
Product Perspective
This website may be a standalone website if is used only up to submission of quotations phase. But if the later phases are also to be incorporated then it must be integrated with other websites for example for credit card details it must contact credit card handling website (credit cards are used as a means of epayment). Thus the two perspectives may be as follows. 1) Independent 2) Integrated 2.2
Importance of product
The traditional approach to tendering is often characterized as time consuming and expensive. This is because: • Advertisements for the required goods or services are placed in newspapers and journals,
incurring publication costs, • Tender documents are issued in hard copy format, incurring printing, copying and postage costs, • Tender responses are returned in hard copy, so that bidders incur printing, copying and postage costs etc. e-tendering can deliver savings and benefits to an organization by enhancing efficiency and control in the process of purchases of goods or services. Savings and benefits can be categorized into cashable and non-cashable.
Cashable benefits Cashable benefits result in a reduction in expenditure. In terms of e-tendering, cashable benefits are largely process efficiencies (time saved that results in headcount savings and hence reduced expenditure) and reductions in overhead costs incurred during the tendering process as stated above. These savings are achieved through automation of the tender process.
The main elements of overhead cost savings are printing, copying, paper, postage and stationery, which will mostly be avoided because tender documents and tender responses will be issued/received electronically.
This is also environmentally friendly since it reduces the use of paper.
e-Tendering can also release additional office space as contract documentation (required to be kept for at least the length of the contract period) can be stored online.
Non-cashable benefits This website will provide a range of non-cashable benefits: • it will lead to better management and/or co-ordination of the tender process. • it will enable a consistent tender process. Having one system shared across the organizations ensures that anyone involved in the tender process will work within a consistent and unambiguous framework. • The time spent analyzing numerical information (such as costs) is reduced. It will also have functionality that can immediately send out an email notification to suppliers who fail to provide all expected information. • this site will have the ability to create an evaluation report on each tender, including an outline of the methodology used in evaluating the tenders etc. • It is important for the tendering process in the public sector to be fair and for that fairness to be documented. This site will provide a secure history from advertising the tender to awarding a contract. This history encourages openness and integrity in all contractual decisions. •With a traditional tendering process, responses arriving late due to courier delay or Incorrect addressing would have been disqualified from the tendering process. This website will ensure this does not occur because suppliers receive an immediate confirmation by email that their tender has been received, thereby avoiding potential disputes and ill feeling. • less time taken to process responses for evaluation; means that less person time spent administering but also responses can be evaluated faster, so end-to-end tendering time is reduced.
2.3
Product Features
This website will give potential suppliers 24 hour a day access to view all tender opportunities including contract renewal dates, tender deadlines, status of tenders etc. Suppliers will be able to submit tender documents electronically on this site, thereby using the time that would have otherwise have had to be allowed for postal delivery to complete the response. As this is Internet based solution, suppliers will be able to easily view and engage in tendering opportunities without being constrained by location. this website will maintain an approved list of suppliers that have responded to previous tenders and categorizes them by set criteria, such as location and goods or services offered. This website will offer organizations to submit tenders online in electronic format thus saving their time of post delivery. the evaluation of responses to the tender will also be done on this site. Finally award of tender will be given to the selected party.
2.4
User Characteristics there will be three types of actors of this site (a) Buyers: the persons who are responsible for issuance of tenders (b) Suppliers: the persons who will submit their response for tender (c) Other users (unregistered): other people who only want to see the tenders but do
not want to respond.
3.
Basic Requirements.
3.1
. Allow buyer to post tender
3.2
Allow supplier to respond to the available tenders
3.3 User interface with a list of current tenders 3.4
Search facility based on various categories of tenders like organization, type of product etc.
3.5 This website will provide various templates for tender and quotation generation.
3.6 Controlled access to tenders using passwords, user profiles and permissions 3.7
Changes to the quotations
3.8
Repository of previous tenders
3.9 User interface with a list of response to a particular tender
3.10 Workflow functionality, which routes documents to appropriate people or alerts individuals of actions
in the system.
all the suppliers are notified that a tender of their interest is available if a supplier registers after a tender is submitted, then, a mail about the available tenders is also sent to him. Any notification is sent only once on an email id i.e. a track of sent mails is maintained in order to avoid repeatedly sending of mails and also not to annoy the supplier.
3.11All the suppliers are registered and all buyers are having list of suppliers according to the service that latter provides (or products that they can supply). When a tender is available then a notification through mail is sent to suppliers (who can give those kind of services) that a tender is available and if they want they can respond to it by clicking on the link provided in the mail 3.12 Collaboration facilities enabling a number of people to work on creating a tender document or to evaluate tenders 3.13Partially automated evaluation of tenders and award notification
4
Functional Requirements
Buyer 1. Login 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Enter username and password If forgotten password, enter username and answer security question If answer is correct, password will be sent to mail Id provided at the time of registration If security answer is not matching with username then, the person is not a valid user
2. Registration 2.1 enter account details 2.2 A confirmation mail is sent to the buyer(more than one email id may be provided by the supplier) 2.3 username and password will be sent through confirmation mail 2.4 confirm registration by clicking the link given in the confirmation mail 2.5 login by given username and password 2.6 if desired change username and password (no duplicate username is allowed) 3. Post tenders 3.1 Login with username and password 3.2 Select appropriate category and subcategory of tender 3.3 Enter all details corresponding to tender e.g. it’s location (i.e. in which it will operate) etc 3.4 Select tender that is to be uploaded 3.5 View tender before uploading it. 3.6 Upload tender 3.7 Enter threshold parameters which if not fulfilled by any quotation then a mail is sent to the quotation owner saying that you are not fulfilling the threshold requirements. 3.8 Enter preference parameters on which final top entries will be selected. 3.9 Enter weighatge of each preference parameter so that pointa got by tender quotations will get calculated. 3.10 After successful upload, a mail is sent to the buyer saying that the tender has been uploaded. 3.11 If finished logout 4. View responses to tenders (quotations) submitted by supplier 4.1 login with username and password
4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7
Select the tender whose response you want to see (there may be various tenders corresponding to one Buyer) Information (important points) corresponding all tender responses (quotations) will get displayed If desired, categorize them according to evaluation parameters entered at time of posting the tender These parameters cannot be altered after posting tenders Select any particular quotations and view it completely If finished, logout
5. Evaluate tender responses 5.1 View response to a particular tender 5.2 Arrange them according to evaluation parameters 5.3 Tenders will be evaluated as to whether all the Threshold parameters are satisfied. Tenders that meet these parameters will proceed to next stage. Tenders that do not meet threshold parameters will not be considered further. 5.4 At the next stage, select the tender which is best with respect to maximum number of preference parameters 5.5 Weightage may be provided to preference parameters depending on which preference parameter is how much important. 5.6 Five tenders( or ten dpeneding upon what number the tender owner want to be get selected) are selected which have got maximum points depending upon preference parameters. 5.7 Selectionn of final quotation will be done manually. 5.8 Declare that a particular tender has been selected 5.9 A mail is sent to the selected supplier saying that your tender response has been selected. 5.10 A mail is also sent to all other suppliers saying that your response was rejected 5.11 At the conclusion of the evaluation process, an evaluation report is prepared. This report will include: 5.11.1 An outline of the methodology used in evaluating the tenders; 5.11.2 An outline of the responses received; 5.11.3 Recommendations. 5.12 This report will be sent to all suppliers who have submitted their quotations for this particular tender 5.13 If finished, logout 6. Grade suppliers 6.1 Evaluate the tender responses 6.2 After assigning tender to a particular supplier (i.e. if he wins the tender bidding) the buyer may watch his performance and grade afterwards. 6.3 This grade assignment is compulsory. 6.4 This grade will be visible to all, including users, who are not the registered ones. 6.5 Overall grade of a particular supplier will depend upon grades given to him by all buyers. 6.6 If finished, logout 7.
Report Generation 7.1 a report can be generated whenever the tender owner wants to generate it. 7.2 This report includes… 7.2.1 No of supplires who opened the tender document 7.2.2 No of suppliers who downloaded the tender document 7.2.3 No of suppliers who submitted their quotation for tender 7.2.4 Microsoft excel worksheet which will have details of all quotations. 7.3 This report will be generated automatically when the tender evaluation is complete i.e. when the award the tender is given.
8. An online forum for each tender 8.1 enable buyers and suppliers to ask questions 8.2 seek clarifications relating to the notices that are published. 8.3 The forum is confidential and the suppliers details are only seen by tender owner.
8.4 Whenever there is a posting of question from supplier to the forum ,the tender owner will be automatically notified via email. 8.5 Buyer can then respond to the question via email or through online forum . 8.6 The buyer can decide about the time limit for which he want notifications of questions submitted in the forum. After the declared date notifications will not be sent to the buyer, but the forum can still be viewed. 9. Electronic tender box 9.1 this facility is optional for the buyer. if they want this kind of facility then they can use it 9.2 The suppliers upload their responses (files) to electronic tender box. 9.3 when the closing date and time for the tender expires, buyers are sent electronic keys. 9.4 buyer can then unlock his tender box and download/view the responses online. 9.5 this facility makes the provision that the buyers cannot view the quotations before the tender expires. 10. Access Help forum 10.1 online ‘help files’, ‘tutorials’ and ‘start-up guides’ 10.2 Help desk’ style of support available by phone and/or mail 10.3 An administrator is made available (by email) to assist registered suppliers with specific queries regarding the tender. 11. News paper advertising 11.1 this facility is optional. 11.2 this is used to place a summary advertisement of the tender in any number of selected newspapers. 11.3 the newspaper will be of your choice. 11.4 This buyer has to submit some amount of money to get this facility. 12.
Allows buyer to select his own suppliers (Closed Tenders ) 12.1 the closed tenders are the tenders which are meant for selected suppliers. 12.1 there will two ways of selecting suppliers . 12.2 the first way is to select manually, by using grading options. 12.3 the second way is based on suppliers profile held within the system. 12.4 In second way the system will match tender notice to all suppliers. 12.5 This matching will be based on their profile held within the system. 12.6 The matched list of suppliers will then be shown, to allow selection of the individual suppliers. 12.7 The tender notice information will automatically be sent to selected suppliers 12.8 this notification will contain a username and password which will be used to submit quotations. Supplier 1. Login 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Enter username and password If forgotten password, enter username and answer security question If answer is correct, password will be sent to mail id provided at the time of registration If security answer is not matching with username then, the person is not a valid user
2. Registration 2.1 Enter account details and email id (more than one email id may be provided by the supplier) 2.2 A confirmation mail is sent to the supplier 2.3 Username and password through confirmation mail 2.4 Confirm registration 2.5 Login by given username and password 2.6 If desired change username and password (no duplicate username is allowed) 3. View public tenders submitted by buyer
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6
Click on view public tenders Information (important points) corresponding all public tender will get displayed Threshold parameters will also get displayed Select any tender you want to view View complete tender If desired, download the tender
4. View private tenders submitted by buyerr 4.1. Login with username and password 4.2. Click on view private tenders 4.3. Information (important points) corresponding all private tender will get displayed 4.4. Threshold parameters will also get displayed 4.5. Select any tender you want to view 4.6. View complete tender 4.7. If desired, download the tender 5. Respond to tenders (enter quotations) 5.1. Login with username and password 5.2. Select the tender to which you want to respond 5.3. If tender is not closed then only the supplier can submit the quotation 5.4. Enter bid/quotations as a response 5.5. Pay 10% of the budget to the site (earnest money) 5.6. Payment will be made through credit card 5.7. Enter all details i.e. values of the parameters corresponding to your quotation 5.8. Select quotation that is to be uploaded 5.9. View quotation before uploading it. 5.10.Upload quotations 5.11.If required these quotations can be changed as many times before the tender is closed. 5.12.If the quotation is not fulfilling the threshold requirements then a mail is sent to the supplier. 5.13.After successful upload, a mail is sent to the supplier saying that the quotation has been uploaded. 5.14.If finished, logout 6. Garde buyer 6.1 Login with username and password 6.2 The supplier can grade only the buyer, who has selected his quotation i.e. who has selected him for supply. This grade assignment depends upon various parameters, which may include treatment etc. 6.3 This grade assignment is compulsory. 6.4 If finished, logout 7. Additional documents which can not be downloaded 7.1 7.2 7.3
If tenderer have documents that cannot be attached to tender notice such as large-scale drawings, or unusual file formats, suppliers can then request that these documents be sent to them when they view the notice online. This is a fully automated procedure. The system will generate an email to buyer showing the suppliers name and address details for buyer to forward the documents to via post or courier.
8. Access Help forum 8.1 Online ‘help files’, ‘tutorials’ and ‘start-up guides’ 8.2 Help desk’ style of support available by phone and/or mail 8.3 An administrator is made available (by email) to assist registered suppliers with specific queries regarding the tender. 9. Response to closed tenders 9.1 this response can be submitted only by supplier who have got a username and password sent through a mail by the buyer. 9.2 The supplier can then login by this username and password and submit quotation. 10. News paper advertising
10.1 this facility is optional. 10.2 this is used to place a advertisement of the services the supplier provides in any number of selected newspapers. 10.3 the newspaper will be of your choice. 10.4 This supplier has to submit some amount of money to get this facility. 11.
Notification to Suppliers 11.1 all the suppliers are notified that a tender of their interest is available 11.2 if a supplier registers after a tender is submitted, then, a mail about the available tenders is also sent to him. 11.3 Any notification is sent only once on an email id i.e. a track of sent mails is maintained in order to avoid repeatedly sending of mails and also not to annoy the supplier.
User (not registered) 1.
View rank given to buyer and supplier
2. View public tenders submitted by supplier 2.1. Click on view public tenders 2.2. Information (important points) corresponding all public tender will get displayed 2.3. Threshold parameters will also get displayed 2.4. Select any tender you want to view 2.5. View complete tender
5. Non- functional requirements 5.1
The site is highly secure so, security problems do not occur. Potential security problems may be the following ones 5.1.1
During registration
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Integrity violation: Malicious parties may change, alter, or delete the registration form submitted by the buyer.
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Confidentiality violation: The registration forms submitted by a buyer may contain companysensitive information. A malicious party may gain access to this material. 5.1.2 During Invitation to tender
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Integrity violation: A malicious party may alter the tender specification document or advertising information. Thus suppliers may submit offers for the wrong project or fail to complete all requirements.
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Masquerading or impersonation: A malicious party may impersonate the principal and issue a false tender advertisement, causing suppliers to waste time and money developing tender submission documents. 5.1.3
During Tender submission
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Integrity violation: A malicious party can change; alter a submitted tender document prepared by the supplier.
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Confidentiality violation: A malicious party can access sensitive information contained in the quotation documents. The malicious party could then prepare their own tender document undercutting other tender prices.
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Impersonation: A malicious party can submit a false tender under the name of a legitimate supplier. The legitimate supplier may not be able to deny ownership of this false tender document. 5.1.4
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During Tender evaluation
Integrity violation: A malicious party may gain access to the document during evaluation and alter the submitted tender document to favour a particular supplier 5.1.5
During award of tender
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Integrity violation: A malicious party may alter the award of tender message so that an incorrect supplier is notified that they have won the tender.
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Confidentiality violation: Sensitive information regarding the winning tender may be released.
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Impersonation: A malicious party may impersonate the principal to send a fake tender award to an unsuccessful supplier or to notify the successful supplier that they did not win the tender.
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Non-verifiable evidence: If no integrity and confidentiality service is in place, people cannot tell which award message is genuine.
