September 29, 2023

Bidscale release notes

Summary

These release notes summarize the features and enhancements included in the 09.29.2023. Highlights include:

• Compliance Engine

  • Ability to view a summarized extract of the formatting details of submitted proposals for compliance with formatting requirements

• Evaluation Setup

  • Enhanced self-service capabilities, including a new setup flow

• Evaluation Management

  • Enhanced progress view with new UI capabilities and task management

  • Ability to designated evaluations as fully complete

Compliance Engine

When viewing Offeror Management for proposals, users are able to view the details of the . The Bidscale Compliance Engine will run on any and all proposals loaded to Offeror Management. The data points presented for each proposal file include:

• Projected read time

• Page count

• File type

• File size

• Fonts and their associated page utilization

• Margins and their associated pages

Evaluation Setup

The evaluation setup experience has been enhanced to allow for greater clarity about the setup process and the configuration defaults of evaluations. It enables users with the appropriate permissions sets to accomplish the following:

• Define evaluation leads

• Define evaluation volumes

• Define the evaluation criteria, its definitions, and structure

• Assign rating sets

• Assign and generate evaluation tasks

Evaluation Management

The progress page has been enhanced for greater clarity and ease of use. At the top, users can see baseline metrics for an evaluation, and in the table below, users can see the status of evaluation tasks. Users can filter by a variety of attributes to see specific groupings of tasks.

Users with the appropriate permissions are now able to create, delete, and edit tasks for in-flight evaluations directly from the progress page.