Grading-based item awards
The grading-based item award feature enables companies with the option to apply restrictions when awarding suppliers if team grading input should be factored into the award decision under the following scenarios:
Items rejected by the technical evaluation team can't be awarded.
If an item receives a very low grade, it is rejected by the technical evaluation team and should not be awarded. You can enable the Prevent awarding items that don't meet the grading threshold event rule to prevent items rejected by the technical evaluation team from being awarded.
When you create a guided sourcing event, you can set a Target grade for sections and items on the Set grading weight page. The target grade is the grading threshold that sections and items must meet. It can't be awarded if an item doesn't meet its grading threshold. If you import an award scenario from a Microsoft Excel file, allocations to items that don't meet the grading threshold are considered invalid data and ignored.
It is recommended to set the target grade for an item or section to a value that is less than or equal to Overall weight of that item or section. This is because the Total grade of an item is calculated using the following formula:
Total grade of an item = Sum (Grade of each term x Overall weight of each term)
From this formula, we can infer that an item's total grade will never be greater than the overall weight. If you set the Target grade to a value greater than the Overall weight, the total grade will never meet the target grade requirement, and the item can never be awarded.
Items can't be awarded if consensus grades are not submitted.
You can enable the Must owner submit consensus grades before awarding items? event rule to prevent items from being awarded if project owners or event administrators don't submit consensus grades to show that they have reviewed and approved the grades that team graders provide.
If you edit and update a guided sourcing event after you submit the consensus grades, you need to complete the Review for the Team Grading task, Approval for Team Grading task, and consensus grading for a new round.