Industries/Higher education/Sourcing Agent
Research RFQs,documented scoring.
Research procurement runs RFQs for specialized equipment and services with committee oversight. The Sourcing Agent structures criteria, scores bids, documents clarifications, and presents awards chairs and procurement approve before funds commit.
Scenarios in higher education
Document-level examples buyers in this industry run through Sourcing Agent.
Research equipment RFQ
Technical specs scored alongside price; export notes captured as fields.
Core facility service RFQ
Rate proposals normalized to published recharge methodology.
Backup vendor after risk alert
Rationale documented for soliciting alternates.
What the agent checks
Core Sourcing Agent rules, phrased for higher education procurement.
- Weights sum to 100%
- Blocked vendors excluded
- Technical and price criteria
- Negotiation guardrails
- Sponsor fields when required
- Award logged vs budget
How it works
Same pipeline as the live Sourcing Agent module.
- 1
Parse the brief
Extract quantity, category, delivery window, and unit from plain language and estimate budget from catalog or historical pricing.
- 2
Publish the RFQ
Set evaluation criteria with weights that sum to 100%, invite qualified suppliers, and exclude blocked vendors.
- 3
Collect and score bids
Normalize cost, lead time, warranty, payment terms, and supplier risk into a weighted matrix and rank respondents.
- 4
Negotiate in rounds
Run guardrailed rounds — target price, walk-away, must-have warranty — with deterministic concession logic; Stellitron Intelligence phrases the messages.
- 5
Recommend award
Present the winning supplier, unit economics, and savings vs budget; award updates the event and logs impact.
Questions buyers ask
Can committees edit rubrics?
Republishing logs changes.
Who awards?
Chairs and procurement per policy.
Are bids simulated?
Demo deterministic.
Sponsor approval?
Routing can include sponsored programs when configured.