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If you want to locate the quotes received by your company:

Access the Nimbi Network and go to My To-Dos > Negotiation;

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If you know the title of the transaction, type it in the search bar at the top of the page and click the magnifier (Search), use the Advanced Filter for more search details or filter in the sidebar by: Status, Type and Date;

The supplier cannot view the participants. The tool does not allow competing participants in a negotiation (whether RFQ, RFP, RFI or Auctions) to have access to other participants (if any) and cannot view their competitors' offers during the cycle. In other words, only the buyer (customer) has access to this information, suppliers do not.

The status of quotations/RFQs is as follows:

• In Composition: Quotes created and available for editing before publication on the market (edits will be made by users with RFQ Negotiator permission level);

• Pending review: When creating quote requests, you can add reviewers. This user company, registered in the quote completion course, will be responsible for reviewing the information before sending the quote to the market;

• Returned: The RFQ reviewer may return the quote to the operator who generated it, if adjustments or possible edits are necessary;

• Published: Quote published on the platform, but the deadline has not yet started, as a future date was chosen to start the RFQ;

• In Progress: Quotation within the deadline stipulated for the participation of suppliers invited to negotiate;

• Deadline Ended: Quote with the trading cycle period closed. At this stage it is possible to reward the best offers registered by participating suppliers who responded to the RFQ or extend it, requesting counter-proposals or a new negotiation cycle;

• Closed: The quotation is closed and already includes the premiums due for the offers of the participating suppliers who responded to the RFQ;

• Canceled: Quote canceled (action that will be carried out by users with RFQ Negotiator and/or Administrator permission level).

RFQ Cycle Status are:

Waiting Acceptance: Pending acceptance.

Pending: Awaiting a proposal.

Answered: Proposal submitted

Declined: Client did not accept proposal.

Expired: Deadline unanswered.

In order to modify your RFQ answer, the quotation must be on time, with status In Progress, and be the closed envelope type.

Check with your customer the type of envelope of the desired RFQ, if it is of the Open Envelope type, request the sending of a new cycle to your company.

Like a closed envelope RFQ, to change your answer, go to My To-Dos > Negotiation, scroll your mouse cursor down and find the quote you want.

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After opening the quotation page, go to the Cycle panel and click on the Edit button at the bottom of the panel.

Then all fields will be enabled for editing. Make the desired change and click Post, so your changes can be saved.

Changes will be logged within the Change History panel.

To accept and respond to an RFQ, access the RFQ in My To-Dos > Negotiation;

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Locate the RFQ in the list of processes that will be displayed at the bottom of the screen and click on the title of the desired negotiation;

After analyzing the negotiation received, respond to the invitation by clicking Accept or Refuse, located at the bottom of the page.

Make sure that the RFQ is delegated to your user in the Responsible field.

Before responding to your quote values, check the Schedule, Attachments, and Comments panels to find any additional data submitted by your customer to assist you in responding to the quote.

If the delivery and billing address is the same for all items, you can check it in the Delivery and Billing data panel.

Your company's response is made in the Cycle panel. To respond to the RFQ, the cycle status must be Pending.

In the Currency panels, fill in the shipping and currency data to be used in your answer.

In Items, enter the validity date of your proposal in the Proposal Expiration field;

In the List of Items to be quoted, click on the link of the respective item in the column Description, to access the response panel.

Within the View Item response panel, navigate through the available tabs, making sure to fill in all mandatory fields (marked with *) and optional fields, if necessary.

Click Save and Continue to save the changes and proceed to the other items, or Save to only save the changes for the respective item.

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Enter a comment informing the rejection of the respective item and confirm. When you confirm the item, it will be marked as declined along with the confirmation information.

Include complementary data to your negotiation response using the Annexes and Comments panels, present within the Cycle panel.

Click Save proposal to save the changes and Submit proposal to submit your proposal to the client.

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Attention: It is possible to send multiple answers until the end date of a RFQ, but only the last one will be valid.

Public RFQs are Public Quotations, open to all registered suppliers with active users on the Nimbi Network, available for general participation.

This way, suppliers will be able to search and participate in any Public RFQ that interests them.

There, you can filter the search by categories and even choose to receive notifications whenever a Public RFQ is opened for the categories you are interested in.

To participate in Nimbi Network application, choose one of the open Public RFQs and click on the title.

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The Accept RFQ page will appear, where you can check the RFQ information, and if you agree with everything;

Click on Join in at the bottom of the page.

Click on the title of the desired negotiation; make sure that the RFQ is delegated to your user in the Responsible field.

Before responding to your quote values, check the Schedule, Attachments, and Comments panels to find any additional data submitted by your customer to assist you in responding to the quote.

If the delivery and billing address is the same for all items, you can check it in the Delivery and Billing data panel.

Your company's response is made in the Cycle panel. To respond to the RFQ, the cycle status must be Pending.

In the Currency panels, fill in the shipping and currency data to be used in your answer.

In Items, enter the validity date of your proposal in the Proposal Expiration field;

In the List of Items to be quoted, click on the link of the respective item in the column Description, to access the response panel.

Within the View Item response panel, navigate through the available tabs, making sure to fill in all mandatory fields (marked with *) and optional fields, if necessary.

Click Save and Continue to save the changes and proceed to the other items, or Save to only save the changes for the respective item.

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Enter a comment informing the rejection of the respective item and confirm. When you confirm the item, it will be marked as declined along with the confirmation information.

Include complementary data to your negotiation response using the Annexes and Comments panels, present within the Cycle panel.

Click Save proposal to save the changes and Submit proposal to submit your proposal to the client.

To accept an RFP, access the negotiation through the notification received by email, clicking on Access Here, or access directly on the Nimbi Network in My To-Dos > Negotiation;

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Click on the desired negotiation RFP, or find it a in the Type search field located on the left side of the list;

Click on the title of the negotiation to access it;

After checking the content of the negotiation, if you are interested in participating, click Accept, or, if you are not interested, click Decline.

The RFP response process is divided into cycles composed of 3 stages: Reviewing Questions, Answering Questions and Waiting for Proposal.

In the desired cycle, view the calendar with the duration of each step of the process in the Scheduling panel.

• Reviewing Questions: The Submission of Questions stage aims to raise questions necessary for creating your company's proposal.

View the scope of the process requested by your client through the files available for download in the RFP Document panel.

To submit a question, navigate to the Doubts and questionings panel, enter your comment, and click Post Comment.

• Question return deadline: After the deadline for answering questions begins, your client will be able to answer your questions.

If your customer has already responded, the message will be available in the Answers panel.

For comments on your proposal or data provided by your client, use the Comments panel and click Post comment.

• Awaiting Proposal: At this point you can enter your proposal as requested by your client.

In Required Documentations, click on the “clip” available in the Business Proposal and Technical Offer panels, select the document in the respective field and click on the clip or drag the file to the field to add it to the proposal.

After filling in all the information, click Submit Proposal.

The statuses of the RFP cycles are:

• Awaiting Acceptance: The Supplier has not yet accepted participation in the RFP cycle;

• Pending: negotiation cycle has been accepted by the supplier but has not yet been responded to;

• Responded: supplier responded to the negotiation;

• Refused: supplier refused to participate in the negotiation.

• Expired: the RFP deadline has passed without a response from the supplier;

When invited to participate in an RFI, it is possible to access it through the notification received by email or through the Nimbi Network's logged in area.

By email, click Access Here to be directed to the RFI.

Through the Nimbi Network, access My To-Dos > Negotiation;

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Locate the desired RFI or if you want to filter the desired RFI by customer click on Advanced Filters and on the next screen search for that customer.

When opening the trade, click Accept or Decline.

The screen will then appear with the fields of the questionnaire sent to your company.

Answer all questions in each section and, to move on to the other sections, click Next.

After filling out the entire questionnaire, click Send.

The RFI statuses are:

• In Progress: Research within the deadline stipulated for the participation of suppliers invited to the request;

• Rejected: The RFI reviewer may return the research to the responsible operator who generated it, if adjustments or possible edits are necessary;

• Published: Research published on the platform, but its deadline was not registered, as a future date was chosen to start the RFI;

• Suspended: Research with negotiation period paused by the user responsible for the request or by the 'Administrator' user of the company that generated the RFI.

• Closed: Research with a closed trading period, where it is not possible to make any type of change.