A New e-Tendering Model For Fully Automated Tendering Process

Abstract

Along with the revolution in information technology solutions and the wide replacement of the legacy manual procedures with the automated and digital workflow procedures, many electronic solutions have been developed and used to digitize the supply chain processes and as one of the main process in the supply chain, it is highly demanded nowadays to perform the procurement processes in the enterprises using e-procurement system. As part of e-Procurement, this paper emphasizes the importance of leveraging the tendering process in an enterprise to be fully electronic by adopting the e-Tendering approach. This research proposes a new model for e-Tendering which enables an enterprise to conduct a fully automated web-based tendering process. The proposed model is a new conceptual model of fully automated, digital and web-based tendering solution that is covering all steps of the tendering process and involving all related departmental computer system modules and stakeholders. It also proposes a new mechanism for bidders’ engagement into the e-Tendering system which result in full digital cycle for complete tendering process as this is one of the main challenges in e-Tendering solutions which is still lagging behind the digital environment and being done via paperwork and entered manually in almost all tendering systems that are available nowadays. The model can be considered as a base for building a new framework for the development of an applicable e-Tendering system that is fully automating the tendering process in any enterprise’s Tendering Management System (TMS).