eRFX Sourcing Portal vs RFP Response Builder

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 Response Builder is Office-integrated software for creating RFP responses, proposals, and statements of work, with support for contracts and sales letters. Built into Microsoft Word and Excel, it includes a searchable content library for inserting reusable material and editing library entries. Teams can assign RFP sections with due dates, receive email notifications, follow tasks on a dashboard, and work with auto-saved updates. Its Content Outline divides large RFPs into sub-documents and assembles them into a final response. Project files can be stored on a network drive, in SharePoint, or in CorsPro-hosted cloud storage. Locally stored content remains available offline while desktop data synchronizes with the cloud. DocuSign integration lets users send Word, Excel, and PDF documents for e-signature. The 14-day free trial requires no credit card, but requires desktop installation on Windows—or a Mac running Windows through Parallels or Boot Camp—and Microsoft Office for Windows. The Business plan costs $39 a month per user, with a five-user minimum; integration services are not included.