Quotes in, prices out,
without the copy-paste
Winning a bid usually means pricing it first. IFXBid handles the supplier round-trip — sending the request, threading the replies, and reading the numbers out of them.
From requirement to priced quote
The part of bidding that eats an afternoon and produces a spreadsheet nobody trusts.
Send From the Bid
Request quotes from your suppliers without leaving the opportunity. The bid's requirements travel with the request, so nobody has to re-describe 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.
Price History Accumulates
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: RFQ — Task Seating, 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 list, with receipts
Each supplier carries their contacts, their conversation history, and every price they’ve quoted you — attached to the bid it was quoted for.
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.
Price Your Next Bid Faster
Send the quote requests from inside the opportunity and let the replies file themselves.