Grading Supplier Responses in Guided Sourcing

With team grading, multiple project team members can grade supplier responses to event content. The system uses the grades to generate a single consensus grade.

Team members can have differing opinions about what information is important as well as the quality of the responses of a supplier. Team grading enables you to solicit grades for supplier responses from multiple project team members (team graders).

Users who are assigned as reviewers for the Review for Team Grading Task in an event become team graders. Team graders use the Review for team grading action to submit grades for grade supplier responses.

1. Open the event in which you want to grade supplier responses as a team member.
2. Choose the more actions icon (...) in the upper-right corner of the event page and choose Event scoring options → Grade as team member.
3. Choose one of the following methods to view supplier responses:
   1. Expand all in the lower-left corner of the grading page to view supplier responses to all event content.
   2. Select a specific item or question in the Select item or question drop-down list to view supplier responses to a specific event content. You can go through all items and questions by selecting the Next and the Previous buttons.
4. Optional: Use the calculator icon next to system-calculated grades to view the formula used to calculate automatic grades.
5. Assign grades to each gradable item, where the grade value must be a number between 0 and 100, with 100 being the best possible grade.
   1. Section-level grades are rolled up for primary and alternative bids.
   2. Graders can submit grades through the offline grade sheet only for primary bids.
   3. A section cannot be graded if the items in it have not been bid.
   4. Team members cannot edit automatic grades as the grades are calculated by the system.
6. Optional: Choose the comment icon next to gradable items to add comments to indicate your reasons for giving specific grades.
7. After assigning grades, either Save your grades but not apply them to consensus grades, or Submit your grades and apply them to consensus grades.

A guided sourcing event moves to the Review responses state when an event administrator chooses the Stop event button or at the end of the scheduled event time. If you are a team grader (a user assigned as a reviewer for the Review for Team Grading Task, you grade the responses suppliers submitted. Assign a grade from 0% to 100% depending on how well each response meets your needs.

If automatic grading is set up, you can also view and adjust grades calculated by the system on the Adjust grades page.

The below process outlines how a Project Owner can perform Adjust grades:

1. Open the event in which you want to assign grades or adjust automatic grades.
2. Choose the more action icon (...) in the upper-right corner of the event page and choose Event scoring options → Adjust grades.

   The Adjust grades page opens.

3. Select one of the following methods to view supplier responses:
   • Choose Expand all in the lower-left corner of the grading page to view supplier responses to all event content.
   • The table can show the responses from up to 20 participants, by default. An administrator for your site can change the value of this parameter using the Intelligent Configuration Manager to show the responses from up to 40 participants.
   • Select a specific item or question in the Select item or question drop-down list to view supplier responses to a specific event content. You can go through all items and questions by clicking the Next and the Previous buttons.
4. Optional: Choose the calculator icon next to system-calculated grades to view the formula used to calculate automatic grades.
5. Assign grades or adjust automatic grades that you are not satisfied with.
   Note

   The grade value must be a number between 0 and 100, with 100 being the best possible grade.
6. Select the Submit button.