What problem does it solve? Procurement teams often launch RFQs and RFPs without a written, approved plan, leading to inconsistent incumbent treatment, ad-hoc scoring weights, and missed milestones. This Skill turns a category strategy into a concrete, event-specific sourcing plan with defined suppliers, timelines, and governance. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Sourcing Mode Selection: Recommends RFI→RFP, direct RFQ, negotiation-only, or reverse auction based on market structure, timeline, and dollars at stake. - Incumbent Treatment & Bid Floor: Decides whether and how to invite the incumbent, and builds the invited-supplier list with disqualifiers. - Event-Specific Scoring & TCO: Overrides default evaluation weights and defines the total-cost-of-ownership drivers used in scoring. - Timeline, Governance & Risk Register: Produces milestone tables, approval authority, communication plans, and a risk register. - Use Case: Before launching a competitive event for cloud infrastructure, generate a signed-off sourcing strategy memo that specifies the mode, bidder list, scoring weights, and award timeline. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to create a sourcing strategy for your category or event, for example by saying: build a sourcing strategy for cloud infrastructure FY26 using reverse auction mode.
