The Solicitation Questions & Answers page allows buyers to search for a solicitation and answer a vendor's question submitted online through VSS or received offline by doing one of the following:
Link to the Answer Vendor Question page by clicking the Answer Vendor Question action from the row-level menu. This page is for the Procurement Officer to record his/her response to the Solicitation inquiry submitted through VSS.
Link to the Record Offline Question/Answer page by clicking the Record Offline Question/Answer action via the row-level menu. This page is for the Procurement Officer to record the questions received offline and his/her responses to the questions received offline.
Solicitations are added to this page once the first question has been asked in Vendor Self Service (VSS) and VSS has been synchronized with Advantage Procurement. Buyer's receive an email notification once a question has been submitted for their solicitation. A Buyer can search for a solicitation using wildcard characters.
When a Buyer responds to a question on the Answer Vendor Question page or on the Record Offline Question/Answer page, an email notification is generated to the vendor who asked the question alerting them of the response. This notification is only generated if an email address was provided as part of the record.
If this page was accessed from the Procurement Management page, then the search results are automatically filtered to show records that belong to the Procurement Folder that was selected on the Procurement Management page. You can return to the Procurement Management page by selecting the record in the search results grid and then selecting the View Procurement Folder link.
You can transition to the Solicitation transaction by clicking the transaction hyperlink in the Solicitation column in the search results grid. You can close out of the transaction to return to the SOQA page.