How nexPro actually
screens, scores, and negotiates
Not a black box. Every stage below is the real pipeline running behind your comparisons — what it checks, what it refuses to guess, and where you stay in control.
Five stages, one RFQ
Every bid on your RFQ passes through all five before you ever see a recommendation. Hover a stage to pause it; click to jump to the detail below.
Reduced-motion? The ring holds still — every stage is still clickable below.
The same five stages, screen by screen
An animated walkthrough of the actual interface and its real language — not a recreation of the idea, the screens themselves, auto-advancing below.
What each stage actually does
The plain-language version of the pipeline — no step here is decorative; each one exists because skipping it caused a real problem somewhere.
Screening
Every bid is checked against your hard limits — certifications, minimum specs, mandatory terms — before a single score is calculated. A bid that breaches one is set aside here, permanently. It never reaches the scoring stage, which means it can never buy its way back in on price.
Evaluation brief
Before any score is visible, you write down what actually matters for this purchase — in your own words, plus the real cost parameters (operating hours, energy tariff, expected life) that turn a quoted price into what the equipment will actually cost you to run. Recorded now, so the basis of the decision is defensible later — and never edited retroactively to fit a preferred outcome.
Comparison
Every surviving bid is scored against your weighted criteria — and every number is shown, not hidden inside a single black-box total. A second, independently-computed ranking method cross-checks the result and flags it when the two disagree. Statistically unusual bids (suspiciously cheap, implausibly fast) are flagged for a second look, not silently trusted.
Negotiations to consider
For every runner-up, nexPro calculates the exact number that would let them overtake the leader — a real figure to open a conversation with, not a guess. It tells you plainly whether the leader's win is genuinely contestable or effectively uncontested, and drafts the actual outgoing email — reviewable and editable — before you ever send anything.
Award
nexPro recommends; it never decides. The recommendation, the full score breakdown, and every negotiation exchange sit together as one auditable record — so if a supplier ever asks "why them and not us," the answer already exists.
The terms you'll actually see on screen
Short, honest definitions — no jargon left unexplained.
Mandatory gate
A hard limit checked before scoring, not during. Breach it and the bid is set aside — price can never compensate for it.
Evaluation brief
Your priorities and real cost parameters, written down before any bid scores are visible — so the decision basis predates the decision.
Weighted score
Every criterion's raw value, normalized value, weight, and contribution — shown in full. Nothing folds into an unexplainable single number.
Cross-check ranking
A second, differently-built ranking method run on the same data. When it disagrees with the primary score, that disagreement is surfaced, not buried.
Anomaly flag
A bid that's a statistical outlier against its peers — often a suspiciously low price. Advisory only: it asks you to verify, never disqualifies automatically.
Negotiation lever
The exact concession — a price, a delivery date, a warranty term — that would close the gap to the current leader. Computed, not estimated.
Every negotiation opens with a number, not a hunch
This is the stage that turns a ranking into an actual outcome. It doesn't just tell you who's winning — it tells you exactly what it would take to change that, and drafts the email to go find out.
- ✓Contested vs. dominant, stated plainlyA clear read on whether the leader's win is genuinely contestable, so you know when a negotiation is worth your time.
- ✓The exact ask, not a guess"Ask for 23,000 off" or "ask for one more year of warranty" — the precise number that closes the gap.
- ✓Sustainability checks built inIf a vendor's already an outlier on the number you're about to push, you're told before you ask.
- ✓Review before send, alwaysThe email is drafted and fully editable. Nothing reaches a supplier on the strength of one click.
See it run on your own RFQ
Fifteen minutes, your real bids — walk through screening, scoring, and negotiation end to end.
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