Sourcing in practice | Session 14
The Bake-Off That Creates Leverage
Account teams do not price against your process, they price against your ability to walk. What makes an alternative credible to a team that has seen a thousand bluffs, the three bid design decisions made before vendors hear a word, both proposals read clause by clause and priced over the term live, and the close that keeps the loser warm. With briefings from the advisory desk. Recorded August 2026.
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What this session covers Two quotes on your desk, a deadline on the calendar, and everyone above you already knows which vendor they want. A bake-off the vendor does not believe produces prices the vendor does not sharpen, and this session is about running one they believe.
Live on the sample workspace, the proposal comparison reads two proposals as one deal expressed twice: the totals over the life of the deal side by side with what drives them, then clause by clause, the caps, the flexibility, the protections one paper has and the other quietly lacks, ready for the sign off chain.
Between the segments, the advisory desk covers the four observable signals of a credible alternative, scoring that survives the loser's sponsor, and the endgame: telling the loser fast and specifically, keeping the thread alive, and banking the losing proposal as the renewal's evidence.
Agenda
- 0:00Countdown
- 0:30Welcome: two quotes and a decided answer
- 2:14Advisory desk: what makes an alternative credible
- 4:00Bid design: scope, weights, the walk away
- 5:24Advisory desk: scoring you can defend
- 7:13Live: two proposals, one honest reading
- 10:32Advisory desk: telling the loser, keeping the loser
- 12:11The bake-off ladder
- 13:05Advisory desk: your next two quotes
- 14:46Your next step
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