eRFX Sourcing Portal vs RFP.ai

eRFX Sourcing Portal is a cloud application for aerospace estimation and procurement professionals making sourcing decisions during quoting and award. Its customer portal supports sourcing raw material, hardware, final processing, and manufactured or fabricated detail components from multiple suppliers. Buyers can generate proposals, compare costs, preselect vendors from a processing database and manage vendor NDAs. The supplier portal helps distributors, detail component manufacturers and final processing providers handle RFIs, RFPs and RFQs from multiple customers, with quick quote submission, configurable workflows and automated email messaging. eRFX is available on the web and through an API, and the site says it is integrated with CPQ Aero. Gold Supplier offers custom API configuration for ERP software. Engineering files use AWS cloud storage during bidding and are deleted after 30 days or bid closure; transmission is secured with SSL encryption. Customer Portal costs nothing, Supplier Portal costs $15 a month, and Gold Supplier costs $500 a month. Supplier portals receive a 90-day trial after registration and approval.

RFP.ai drafts answers to RFPs, due diligence questionnaires, and vendor assessments using approved source material. It extracts questions, produces cited answers with confidence scores, and sends uncertain responses to subject matter experts. Teams can track coverage, export responses, and fill detected answer fields in the source document. It accepts PDF, Word, Excel, and image files, including scanned documents processed with OCR. Exports include Word, PDF, Excel, CSV, and PowerPoint. Connections include Slack, Microsoft Teams, API access, Claude Desktop through MCP, and a Chrome extension for portals such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Google Forms, and Microsoft Forms. It is available on the web, as an extension, and through an API. The Starter plan is €49 a month, or €40.83/mo billed annually; the Single RFP Pack is 39.00 EUR as a one-time payment. A 7-day trial is available, but there is no free plan. RFP.ai says customer content is not used to train AI models and core application storage is primarily hosted in the EU. It retains data for 30 days after account cancellation for export, and says it is not currently independently certified, including for ISO 27001.