If you've been asked to score a sourcing activity, you'll mark each supplier's questionnaire answers and supplier section responses from 0 to 5. This guide is for scorers.

Before you start

Only users assigned as scorers, whose role has the Scoring Assignments permission, can score an activity. Scoring needs the Sourcing Plus plan. You'll get an email when you're assigned, with your due date.

Open your scoring assignment

Go to Scoring Assignments

Go to Sourcing > Scoring Assignments. The table lists each activity you've been asked to score, with its Scoring Deadline Date, Invited Date, Invited By and status (Incomplete, Complete or Closed (Awarded)).

Open the activity

Click the activity. You'll see Score Supplier Questionnaire Responses and Score Supplier Section Responses, listing only the items assigned to you.

Score questionnaire answers

Open a questionnaire

In Score Supplier Questionnaire Responses, click View in the row's actions menu. Each Category/Area shows its Weighting (%), then each Question with the Supplier Answer.

Score each question

Choose a Score from 0 (lowest) to 5 (highest) for every question. Explaining your score in Please explain why you gave this score is optional but helps others understand it. Click Save.

Click Submit Scoring

When you've scored every questionnaire, click Submit Scoring below the table, then Submit Final Scoring to confirm. The button changes to Submitted.

Score supplier sections

Open a section

In Score Supplier Section Responses, click View in the row's actions menu. Score Supplier Section Response shows the supplier's written answer.

Score the response

Choose a Score from 0 to 5 and, optionally, add a comment. Click Save.

Click Submit Scoring

When you've scored every section, click Submit Scoring below this table and confirm with Submit Final Scoring. Sections are submitted separately from questionnaires.

📌 Important: Once you submit, you can't change your scores yourself. If something needs correcting, ask the activity's owner to use Reopen Scoring, which is available while your status is Incomplete or after the supplier resubmits. When an activity is awarded, scoring closes and shows Closed (Awarded).

How your scores are weighted

  • Questionnaires: your 0-5 scores are combined using each Category/Area weighting, which adds up to 100% within the questionnaire.

  • Across the activity: the activity's Weighted Scoring step sets how much each supplier section, questionnaire and pricing counts. See Apply Weighted Scoring to a Sourcing Activity.

  • Pricing: scored automatically from each supplier's total cost. Scorers don't score pricing.

What happens next

  • Your status updates: you show as Complete in the activity's Scoring Management Overview once everything assigned is submitted.

  • The activity's owners are told: the creator and Sourcing Owners are emailed when you submit.

  • Results are compared: your scores and comments appear on the Scoring Analysis tab. See Supplier Scoring Analysis and Insights.

  • If the supplier resubmits: your status changes to Requires Resubmission and the owner can reopen your scoring for the new response.

Troubleshooting

I can't see Scoring Assignments in the menu

Your role doesn't have the Scoring Assignments permission. Ask an administrator. On the free plan you'll see Upgrade to Sourcing Plus instead.

Submit Scoring is greyed out

You haven't scored everything in that table yet. Open each row with View, score every item and click Save.

The activity shows Closed (Awarded)

A supplier has been awarded, so scoring is closed. You can still view the responses, but you can't submit or change scores.

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