An Incumbent supplier is a supplier that supplied the item in the last procurement
cycle. You can specify incumbent suppliers in all types of auctions.
About this task
This feature is useful if you would like to compare bids made by the incumbent supplier
with bids made by other suppliers. You may want to accept the bid of the incumbent supplier
even if it is not the lowest bid.
Procedure
To set the incumbent supplier, complete the following steps:
- Open the auction.
- Click Participants in the navigation area.
- On the Participants page, click Incumbents
tab.
- Select the item for which you want to set an incumbent supplier.
- On the Add incumbent window, you can either enter the supplier's name in
the Search suppliers field or search for the supplier's name.
The selected supplier's name is displayed in the Incumbents to be added
pane.
- Click Save.
- (Optionally), you can click Unlinked incumbentsto add unlinked
incumbents.
- On the Unlinked incumbents window, select the supplier name in the
Item pane or search the supplier from Search suppliers
field.
The selected supplier's name is displayed in the Incumbents to be added
pane.
- Click Add.