IV. Compare contract proposals
If no contract proposal has been collected in the current cascade, the next cascade starts after the time scheduled in the Job Prospecting Strategy.
After all cascades are concluded (or if the manager cancels the process earlier), the Job Prospecting is finished. Now it is time to compare contract proposals.
The Job Offers app ensures that:
all sent job offers are invalidated.
vendors who have not responded are informed that job offers are now invalid via a chat message.
collected contract proposals are automatically compared and ranked for each cascade based on the Contract Proposal Ranking Strategy selected for each cascade.
the project manager is informed about the result of the job prospecting.
For example, if the app collected no contract proposal in Cascade 1, but some contract proposals were collected in Cascade 2 and Cascade 3, then the best contract proposal from Cascade 2 is considered the best contract proposal from the whole job prospecting.
Contract proposals comparing and ranking rules
If different currencies are involved, the app recalculates them to the project currency and then compares the fees.
The Job Offers app uses the current exchange rate from the Open Exchange Rates. If your XTRF currency exchange rates settings are different, e.g., you are using the previous day's rates or rates from another source, the numbers you get in the Job Offers app can differ slightly from those in the Home Portal.
Deadlines are compared at precisely every whole minute.
The best contract proposal from the whole job prospecting is selected as the best-ranked contract proposal in a cascade with the highest priority (lowest number).