Once carriers have uploaded their RFP bids and submitted these back to the shipper, the carrier bids are displayed in the Lane Bids screen. If the Shipper would like to request a carrier to re-bid on certain lanes they can toggle the Re-Bid button for the carrier. The user can go through the RFP lane by lane and mark carriers for Re-bids. The selected carriers are automatically saved, allowing the user to leave the RFP screens and return at a later time to mark additional carriers for Re-bidding.
Once the shipper has evaluated all the lanes and carrier bids, they can choose the RFP Actions drop list and select Send Re-Bid Notifications to Carriers.
This process will bring up a modal screen with all the carriers listed within the RFP marked for a Re-bid. The user can deselect any carrier but can only add carriers with a lane marked for a re-bid. They can then set an expiration date and time when all of the re-bids must be returned by the carriers. Once entered, the user can hit Send to send the notifications to the carriers.
The carriers will receive the following email notification that a Re-bid on lanes is requested by the shipper, and when the re-bidding time will expire.
The carrier will see on their RFP dashboard that Re-bids are requested for the RFP and when the re-bidding process will expire.
When the carrier goes into the RFP details screen they will see which lanes have been requested to Re-bid with a red Needs Re-bid indicator in the status column. At this point the carrier can update their bid in the Rate column. These updates are automatically saved as they are entered by the carrier. Once they have completed the re-bidding process they can click Submit in order to transmit the updated rates to the shipper.
On the Shippers RFP display, they will see current carrier bid as well as the carrier’s previous bid amount. If the shipper would like to get additional re-bids they can toggle the Re-bids button and repeat the process. This allows the shipper to have as many bidding rounds as desired.
