eRFX Sourcing Portal vs RFP.co

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.co brings procurement opportunity discovery, qualification, and proposal response into one workflow. It monitors federal, state, and local portals, along with web search, news, public databases, and social signals. Its matching scores opportunities against capabilities, past performance, contract vehicles, set-aside eligibility, geography, and capacity; Go/No-Go records qualification reasoning. Document tools extract solicitation requirements and evaluation criteria with citations and create a compliance matrix. Teams can plan an outline, draft response sections, review and approve work, track versions, and export submission packages as DOCX or PDF. Integration surfaces include CRM, document storage, identity, calendar, chat, signed webhooks, and a REST API, but specific vendor connectors are not named. API access is planned for September–October 2026, and credentials are not yet issuable. The company says customer data is processed in the EU and the platform runs in Falkenstein, Germany. Starter costs $29 a month; there is no free plan, but a free trial is available.