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SS-28998
This feature enables buyers to see supplier participation status and logs entries but prevents buyers from seeing incoming bids in a guided sourcing event which has been published and is in open state to receive bids from suppliers.
Customers want to create a level playing field for all suppliers by keeping the bids hidden and not exposing bid details until all supplier bids have been received.
Using sealed bidding, all bidders submit sealed bids in response to an event invitation. The sealed bid is not opened until the stated date, at which time all bids are opened together. Thus the best supplier bid is usually awarded in the process.
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SAP Ariba Sourcing
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
This feature is supported only in the guided sourcing user interface. This feature adds support in guided sourcing for sealed bidding. The SAP Ariba Sourcing classic user interface also supports sealed bidding, refer to Allow owner to see the following information before event closes.
Your site must have guided sourcing enabled and you must be a member of the Category Buyer group.
You must be the event owner or have project owner capabilities for the event.
You must set the event rule Can owner see responses before event closes to No to see the event rule Allow owner to see the following information before event closes and all of its options.
Note: the event rule Can owner see responses before event closes is visible when the event rule Show lead bid to all participants is set to No. And the event rule Show lead bid to all participants is visible when the event rule Show participant responses to other participants is set to No.
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