Quotes Go Out Automatically
When You Pursue
Winning a bid usually means pricing it first. When your team pursues a bid, IFX Bid sends the quote requests to your own suppliers, threads the replies, and reads the prices out of them.
From Pursue to Priced Quote
The part of bidding that eats an afternoon per bid and produces a spreadsheet nobody trusts. Here it starts the moment you pursue.
Sent When You Pursue
Mark a bid as pursuing and quote requests go out to your own suppliers automatically, three suppliers per line item. The bid's requirements travel with each request, so nobody writes the email or re-describes what's needed.
Replies Thread Themselves
Responses land back against the bid that prompted them, matched on reply headers first and on the sender's address when a mail client strips them. A cold reply still opens its own thread rather than vanishing.
Prices Read Automatically
Suppliers answer in prose, in a table, or as a line-item list. The quoted items, minimum order quantities, and prices are extracted from whichever form they used.
Your Supplier Database Grows
Every vendor you add joins your supplier database, and every extracted quote joins that supplier's record. Over time you can see who is consistently competitive on which items before you ask.
It Reads the Reply the Way a Person Would
Supplier quotes don’t arrive in a standard format. One sends a neat table, the next writes a paragraph, the third attaches a list with the prices buried three lines down. Pattern matching falls over on all of it.
So this is treated as a judgment task rather than a parsing one, and it is deliberately conservative. When a price is ambiguous, nothing is recorded. A missed quote costs one manual entry; an invented one quietly poisons the price history you’re going to rely on.
Extracted values are always shown as suggestions against the original message, so someone can check the number before it counts.
Rivera Supply Co.
Re: Task Seating RFQ, 240 units
Thanks for the note. We can do the mesh task chair at $189/unit on a 100 minimum, drops to $174 if you take the full 240. The armless version runs $151 on the same terms. Lead time is 4 weeks either way.
Extracted Quotes
| Item | MOQ | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mesh task chair | 100 | $189.00 |
| Mesh task chair | 240 | $174.00 |
| Armless task chair | 100 | $151.00 |
Your Supplier Database, with Receipts
Each supplier carries their contacts, the lines they cover, their conversation history, and every price they’ve quoted you, attached to the bid it was quoted for. The more vendors you add, the more of every bid can be quoted without anyone asking.
Threaded Conversations
The whole exchange for a bid sits in one place, not scattered across three inboxes.
Contacts That Stay Put
When the person who always answers leaves, their replacement inherits the history.
Quoted Price History
See what a supplier charged last time before you ask what they'll charge this time.
Goods Pricing with DIBBS Context
For relevant defense goods bids, DIBBS enrichment adds NSNs, line items and approved-source information where available. Those requirements help your team request supplier quotes for the specified goods. Supplier prices and substitutions still need review.
Price Your Next Bid Without the Emails
Pursue the bid, and the quote requests go to your suppliers and the replies file themselves.