A. How to define a scoring team:
Scoring teams are groups of personnel who collectively evaluate a particular aspect of a negotiation
based on their area of knowledge or expertise. Once the scoring teams have evaluated a negotiation
line's responses, they provide a score value.
This score is combined with scores from any other scoring teams and used along with the price to
determine the winner of that negotiation line.
All scoring team members must be defined to the Collaboration Team for that negotiation.
1. On the Create: negotiation page, define the member to the Collaboration Team.
Give them either Full or Score access.
2. In the Requirements area of the page, click Select Scoring Settings.
3. Click Enable Team Scoring, if it is not already selected.
4. Click Add Another Row.
5. Give the team a name. You can optionally enter instructions to the team members.
6. If you deselect the Price Visibility checkbox, members of the team will not be able to view the
pricing information offered by the supplier on the line. (The Price Visibility option can be changed
any time before the award is completed.)
7. Click the pencil icon to add members to the team.
8. On the Scoring Team page, click Add Another Row.
9. Open the Name menu. The menu lists all members of the Collaboration Team who have either
Full or Score access.
10. Select the member to add to the team.
11. Continue adding members to your scoring team until all appropriate members have been added.
Note that the same member can appear on more than one team.
12. Click Apply.
B. How to assign a scoring team to a Requirements.
1. When you are returned to the Select Scoring Settings page, the Section column in the Section
Assignment area lists all Requirement sections defined for the negotiation. Click the Team
Assignment menu.
2. Select the appropriate scoring team and associate it with its Requirements section.
3. Click Apply.
C. How to score responses to a negotiation's Requirements.
If team scoring has been enabled for a negotiation, you must be a member of a scoring team to enter
scores. If team scoring is not enabled, you must be a negotiation editor (either the negotiation
creator or a Collaboration Team member with Full access) to enter scores.
If the scoring method for the Requirement is None or Automatic you do not enter scores (for
Automatic scoring, the system assigns a score to the response based on the acceptable values defined
by the negotiation creator).
NOTE: The negotiation must be closed before entering scores.
D. How to enter scores:
1. From the negotiation home page, access the negotiation for which you wish to enter scores.
2. Select Enter Scores from the Actions menu.
3. On the Enter Scores by Bid page, click the pencil icon in the Enter Scores column for the response
whose Requirements you wish to score.
4. On the Enter Scores page, view the Requirement and its response and enter a value in the Score
column. Note that you can not enter a value higher than the maximum score the negotiation creator
defined for that Requirement.
You may optionally enter an internal note.
5. Click Submit Score.
6. Continue scoring subsequent responses.
E. How are the response's score calculated?
There are two ways Requirement can be assigned a score.
• Manually - a member (or members) of a scoring team enters a score value for all the Requirements
that are included in the Requirement section the negotiation creator assign to their scoring team.
• Automatically - the system assigns a score based on the acceptable values defined by the negotiation
creator.
When multiple members of a scoring team score a response, the system uses the individual team member
s' values to calculate the average score for that Requirement. The system then uses the weight for the
Requirement to calculate the weighted score for that Requirement.
Participants can respond to Requirements defined with a scoring method of None. But evaluators are not
able to enter scores for those responses.
