Welcome to the next wave of enhancements for our Advanced Evaluations (AE) module! Continuing our mission to uplift the platform based on your direct feedback, this release introduces a powerful new report and major upgrades to existing screens. These changes are designed to help you build consensus faster, navigate complex data with ease, and gain clearer insights.

🚀 New! Zero in on What Matters: The Significant Discrepancies Report

Running a consensus meeting can be challenging when trying to spot major scoring differences on a screen filled with data. This brand-new report is designed to eliminate the noise and guide your team through resolving only the most significant scoring variations, one by one.

• The report automatically isolates and displays only the scores for a single supplier and a single question where evaluators are in significant disagreement.
• This focused view allows your panel to discuss and resolve each discrepancy in a structured, step-by-step manner.
• It is designed as a powerful alternative to the all-encompassing Comparative Scoring screen, giving you the choice of how to best run your consensus phase.

This report streamlines your consensus process by turning a mountain of data into a manageable, actionable checklist.

🎯 Enhanced! A More Powerful & Readable Comparative Scoring Screen

The Comparative Scoring screen is a data powerhouse, and we've just given it a major upgrade to make it more intuitive and insightful. Based on your feedback, we've added new functionality and improved the layout to help you analyse and compare responses more effectively.

• Navigate with ease using new collapsible criteria sections to group related questions.
• Focus your analysis by temporarily hiding and showing specific respondents for direct, side-by-side comparisons.
• Instantly see who's leading, as respondents are now sorted by their overall rank instead of alphabetically.
• Get the complete picture with a new total weighted score displayed at the bottom of the screen.
• Maintain context during blind reviews: the price weighting is now visible even when the specific price details are configured to be hidden.
• Experience a cleaner, more intuitive layout designed for improved readability during complex reviews.

These enhancements give you more control to dissect evaluation data, allowing for richer analysis and better-informed decisions.

🎨 New Look! A Clearer, More Insightful Consensus Hub

The Consensus page is your central hub for finalising scores, and we've redesigned it to be more intuitive and transparent. Acting on feedback that the previous layout could be confusing, we've uplifted the user interface to make the workflow clearer than ever.

• The page layout has been reorganised to more clearly distinguish between actions you can take and the information you are viewing.
• Respondent rankings are now displayed directly on the page, giving you an immediate understanding of the current standings without having to open a report.
• This hub is your clear entry point to both the new Significant Discrepancies Report and the enhanced Comparative Scoring screen.

With a more logical layout and at-a-glance rankings, the redesigned consensus hub makes managing the final stages of your evaluation a breeze.

🛠️ Other Enhancements & Fixes

We've also included a number of other improvements and fixes to enhance your experience across the platform.

• Administrators now have the flexibility to include or exclude respondents at any stage of the evaluation, right up to the final decision.
• Strengthened validation rules when submitting a Purchase Order for approval to prevent errors.
• Vendors now have visibility of the 'Refresh Schedule of Rates' action on payment certificates for improved transparency.
• The remaining budget calculation on Purchase Orders now correctly accounts for all receipted amounts from other POs within the same contract.
• Resolved an issue that prevented procurement-specific custom fields from being added to tabular reports.
• Ensured that sign-off steps are now correctly included when configuring custom reminders.

We are thrilled to deliver these powerful new tools and look forward to your feedback as we continue this journey of improvement together.