It's the first release of 2024 and new year, same us because we're kicking things off with a jam-packed Jan release.
As usual we're continuing to add the coolest new features to our RFx Hub such as adding a new "Deadline passed" status and a new tab to store all your draft requests.
But that's not all - quickly after launching our new module the Pre-qualification Hub, we've already added some great new features that allow our buyers to make edits where they need and ensure suppliers can update their responses without having to as permission!
Check out all the details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Request Hub
🕓 New "Deadlines Passed" Request Status
We've added a brand-new request status called "Deadlines passed." This status will be specifically used for requests where ALL stage deadlines have passed.
The "Deadlines passed" status will immediately replace the previous "Live" status for all existing requests that fall into this category.
This new status will provide clear and concise information, helping you to distinguish requests where the stage workflow is complete, and action needs to be taken. You can now easily identify requests that require an extension or need to be awarded/closed.
The "Deadlines passed" status will be visible and available in all the places where statuses exist, including table filters.
✏️ New "Drafts" Tab
We’ve added a separate "Drafts" tab for better organization (previously was mixed in with all sent requests)
Applies to both new and existing drafts.
Draft requests will automatically move to the "Sent" tab when issued.
⚖️ Request evaluation improvements: auto advance
You can now auto-advance through evaluation modals in both directions of the grid (by supplier - left to right, or by exchange (top to bottom)
🏋️ Small but powerful improvements
Fix for the “Description” cell in the comparison view to ensure that text is never cut off incorrectly regardless of different row heights
The component that indicate steps in a flow have been updated to give you a consistent user experience - his affects the following:
invite flow
stage approvals
request award
user role downgrade
user company removal.
We’ve made a fix to ensure public company pages show the correct product and service tags and not legacy ones.
We’ve also fixed a broken knowledge base link in the “Products and services” panel on public company pages.
We’ve made some improvement to tooltips to ensure you have a consistent user experience, including how tooltips show, are hidden, their sizing, placement and truncation.
Fix to help make it less likely for draft requests to break while they are being edited concurrently
The “Last updated” value in the bulletins table is now an absolute date/time (e.g. 19 Dec 2023 11:45 AM GMT) rather than a relative value (e.g. 22h ago)
Pre-qualification Hub
📝 Questionnaire revisions
You now have the flexibility to make changes to your questionnaires effortlessly. Here's what you can do:
You can now edit your questionnaires, adding, removing, or re-ordering questions as needed.
Similar to requests and contracts, you can stage your changes before finalizing them.
Every time you publish your changes, a new version of the questionnaire will be created.
When you publish changes, you'll have the option to update any previously sent questionnaires or save the new version separately.
📝 Update questionnaire name and description
You can now edit your questionnaire template name or description at any time by
Going to their questionnaire template
Heading to the summary tab
Clicking the edit button on the details panel
This won’t happen as part of a revision and doesn’t create a new questionnaire version
Any suppliers who have received the template as a sent questionnaire will get an in-app notification when you make a change to the name.
📝 Question revisions
You can now revise questions as needed to keep them up-to-date
Rest assured, revising a question won't immediately affect sent questionnaires.
🧑🤝🧑 Supplier questionnaire updates
Your suppliers can now trigger and update to their questionnaires
This means they can proactively manage their responses when something has changed
When making a change this will move their questionnaire back to “in progress” then they can update and re-submit. All you need to do is re-approve them!
💅 Small but powerful improvements
We’ve fixed a small issue where currently, all the pre-qualification pages have no margins on small screens
And we’ve fixed a bug that meant you weren’t able to add a new category after clicking the ‘edit’ category flow