Score Every Vendor. Defend Every Award.

Build the criteria set before the first bid arrives, clinical fit, security posture, service levels, price, references, implementation burden. Weight each one, and lock the weights so nobody re-weights them after the scores come in.

Every reviewer scores in their own form without seeing anyone else’s numbers. Scores are revealed together once the last reviewer submits, so the loudest person in the meeting does not set the anchor for the room.

Attach what you scored from, the security questionnaire, the reference call notes, the pricing sheet, the sample report. A score with a document behind it survives a challenge. A number on its own does not.

Put every active contract in one view: category performance, total weighted score, price normalized to the same term length, and the gaps. The comparison is the working document your procurement team uses to assess relative vendor performance across current contracts.

Keep the evaluations that are doing well in one place so you can see what strong performance looks like across vendors. Use those patterns to guide your next scorecard, set better benchmarks, and spot the qualities worth looking for in other contracts.

The criteria you scored on become the scorecard you monitor on. Nothing gets re-typed at signature, and the vendor gets measured on the same things you said mattered when you were still choosing.