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--- tender_management:choosing_and_inviting_suppliers [2023/01/24 12:55] – Gary Willetts
+++ tender_management:choosing_and_inviting_suppliers [2023/01/24 16:38] – [To Spreadsheet] Gary Willetts
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 Whichever method you choose, you will be given the option for the **Date sent** field to be filled automatically with today's date.
-== To Spreadsheet ==
+== To Spreadsheet button ==
-Clicking this button opens your spreadsheet application, with all the items and quantities required on the tender document already entered in appropriate rows and columns. This may be saved and sent to the supplier along with the tender letter. Appropriate columns are already in place for suppliers to enter their responses.
+Clicking this button gives you two options:
+  - Supplier response template
+  - Tender lines with supplier response
+Both open a spreadsheet in you spreadsheet application. The first is used to import a supplier's quotes into the tender (see the [[tender_management:receiving_quotations_from_suppliers#importing_responses_from_a_spreadsheet|18.04. Adding supplier responses to a tender]] page for details). The second has all the items and quantities required on the tender document and any supplier responses already entered. It is useful for sending to the supplier along with the tender letter or as a record of their responses entered into the system.
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