The best practice followed by a government or a big organization to procure the material or service for an ongoing or new project is to go with the tendering process. It helps them choose the best supplier at effective rates with the commitment of continuous supply for the material or service.
An open tender process is open for everyone where the announcement will be made in public, and there is no restriction to submit the tender. Whoever wants to supply the material can submit all the required information along with the price. The selective tender is only open to the list of selected suppliers who have already worked previously or who have expertise in such kind of material supply or project work.
Odoo supports both the open and selective tender process. In Odoo, this feature is known as Call for Tenders. Almost all the business cases can be managed with the tender process such as purchase contract or blanket order. The tender process can be enabled for selected products only; rest of the products can have their standard purchase flow.
Let's see how to enable this feature, configure the product, and invite the supplier to make their quote. The selection process can be performed based on the many aspects such as price, logistics cost, and so on. The order can be given to a single supplier, or it can be split between multiple suppliers by choosing more than one supplier.
