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Speed up your sourcing process and get more bids while promoting a positive supplier experience

SOVRA Connect provides a comprehensive approach to supplier management and promotes healthy competition for mutually beneficial business relationships. Streamline operations, increase efficiency, expand outreach, drive cost savings, improve transparency, and reduce risk.

Module Components

Supplier management

Connect enables transparent and auditable communication tools for vendor interactions. Track all document downloads, manage amendments centrally, and easily handle Q&A with complete visibility and audit trail. Flexible, secure online bid transmission speeds-up the process. Compliance to regulation is built-in, with safeguards against human errors.

Supplier performance management

This feature allows you to track, measure, and report on performance to improve accountability in your supplier pool. Build customized scorecards by creating custom evaluation criteria, ranging from simple metrics to complete scoring grids with weighted factors. Set deadlines and automated reminders to ensure timely performance reviews. Identify supplier quality and compliance issues prior to project completion. Track deficiencies and infractions and analyze performance to support discussions and corrective actions with suppliers and improve overall outcomes.

Certification and pre-qualification management

Efficiently manage and track every aspect of supplier qualification to ensure they are certified and pre-qualified before a project begins or for quick quotes. Easily collect data and documents such as insurance documents, company history, financial capacity, security background check, etc. Manage certification for supplier ESG programs (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and any other supplier diversity initiatives. Create custom qualification forms based on location, category of work or type of business, and qualify vendors on an organization-wide or per-project basis. Search, filter, and rotate qualified suppliers as needed and maintain your pool with automated document expirations and vendor notifications.

Supplier network

Automatically publish bids to the largest public sector supplier network in North America and search it for matches. Send bid notifications to your preferred vendors for added visibility. Our team supports suppliers in using the portal and responding to bids, reducing inquiries to your team and leveling the playing field in your business community.

And with:

  • Review and approval workflows
  • Reporting and analytics
  • Full tracking and auditing capabilities
  • Automatic solicitation matching
  • Supplier activity monitoring and tracking
  • Supplier outreach programs
  • Onboarding and training services and tools

Our Connect workflow

It's time for efficient supplier management

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