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How to Complete a Pricing Schedule

The issuing organisation for an RFQ may request that you submit your quote's pricing in a custom pricing schedule. 


This is a a pricing schedule format in Felix that allows them to compare proposals more easily. These are sometimes also referred to in industry as a bid tab, bid sheet, pricing breakdown, or bill of quantities.



TABLE OF CONTENTS


Opening and filling out a pricing schedule submission.


To complete a pricing schedule for an RFQ:

  1. Go to the Response tab of the RFQ you wish to respond to
     
  2. Under Pricing section or your chosen service/package (RFQs can sometimes have multiple items requested on them), click the Open Pricing Schedule button.

  3. You will only be able to edit the latest Version of a pricing schedule where a client has issued more than one revision via addendum. Felix will default select the latest version for you.
    • Version selector - use this to access previous versions - to view your submission (if submitted) or draft entries, and to export prior versions.


  4. Observe the following features of the pricing schedule:
    • Optional column - If a client has labelled a row Optional, you are not required to respond to that row but you may if you to quote on those items.
    • Notes rows - you will see some rows greyed out where no response fields are editable. These are just informational rows for you. No response required.
    • (If your client has configured this) Quantity (Proposed) - This column allows you to suggest quantities different to what the client has estimated.
    • Currency - Either the default RFQ currency will be shown across the table or the currency you chose in the RFQ Response tab (only where you are provided an option by the client).



  5. For each row/item in the pricing schedule, you can set the status to Quoted, Included or Excluded.
    • If you enter a rate into the Rate column, the Status column will automatically flag the item as Quoted. (You may also be required to provide a Lead Time and Manufacturer if the client has requested this.)

    • If you want to indicate that a row is included elsewhere on the pricing schedule, select Included in the Status column. This will clear any rate you may have entered. We highly recommend to use the Comments feature to provide more context on where it is included.

    • If you want to indicate that a row is excluded from your quote altogether, select Excluded in the Status column. This will clear any rate you may have entered. We highly recommend to use the Comments feature to provide more context on the reason for your inability to provide the item.

  6. Update the Rate column for each line item on the pricing schedule by clicking into each cell twice.

  7. (Optional, but highly recommended) You can leave comments under the Comments column by clicking the bubble icon on each line item.
    • Comments - Enter any relevant context required. Highly recommended to add a comment here for Included and Excluded line items.
    • Inclusions - Typically used for Quoted items to refine or clarify the scope of what you have quoted.
    • Exclusions - Typically used for Quoted items to refine or clarify the scope of what you have quoted.



If you later decide to quote an item that you flagged as Included or Excluded, you can change the status to Quoted in the Status column. This will require you to enter a Rate (and possibly a Lead Time and Manufacturer if the client has requested this.)




Saving and completing a pricing schedule submission.


Felix auto-saves your entries to the schedule as you fill it out, however we also offer a Save button for those that prefer the comfort and familiarity of a Save button.


If you wish to return later and complete the schedule after collecting some information offline or working with your team, you can use the Save & Close button to do this. We wont bug you with validating any missing information just yet in this case. 


If you believe you have completed everything needed, and wish to validate and finish your submission, at any time, click Finish & Close at the top right corner of the pricing schedule to have Felix validate your submission, save your work and return to the RFQ screen.



  • If you Finish & Close without completing the full pricing schedule, you will be prompted to either set all blank items as Included or Excluded.



IMPORTANT: Until you click "Submit" on the Response tab of the RFQ page, you can always return here to make changes.




Notes

Pricing schedule formats can vary per RFQ.


Issuing organisations of RFQs have some options when they create custom pricing schedules.


Depending on their setup per RFQ item, you may see more columns of information in the schedule they have issued you:

  1. Reference Number - additional detail from the client for a line item, to describe the requested item; and/or
  2. Lead Time (days) and Manufacturer - where they are requesting you to provide more detail for each line item; and/or
  3. Suggested Quantity - where they are offering you the ability to propose alternate quantities to their BOQ, as you see them from the documentation and scope provided in the RFQ.




Clients can configure line items to be a Note only, or to be Optional for a response.


When your clients develop their pricing schedule in Felix, they can also configure each row (line item) of a schedule as follows:


  • Notes Row - these rows are used only to communicate information to you and do not require a response from you.
  • Optional - these line items have been deemed as optional items that you may choose to quote for the client, but you are not required to provide a quote in order to respond to the RFQ successfully.



On multi-currency RFQs, you can select your response currency on the Response tab.


If you client has offered multiple response currencies, you will see a selection available in the Pricing section of the response tab. 


You can only respond in a single currency. Reach out to your client if you have a blend of currencies across your quoted items.





Clients can issue revisions to a pricing schedule, we call them versions.


Think of the pricing schedule as another document" provided on the RFQ.


Similar to issuing revisions of documents via addendum, clients can issue new versions of pricing schedules. When they do so, the latest version becomes the only version that you can edit and submit to them. Previous version entries you have made are saved, and you can export them, but you cant edit them.




You can export your pricing schedule to Excel for further record keeping.


Whilst we save your responses for you in Felix, and you can always access your archived RFQs in the RFQ list, we also provide the ability to export your pricing schedule to Excel.

  • Use the Export button (top right corner of the pricing schedule submission page) - at any time, to export the pricing schedule view into a CSV format. Some vendors use this to prepare responses offline before coming back to enter values into Felix.



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