How do I eliminate/disqualify a vendor?

When a project closes you'll find all vendors who submitted under the Submissions section of the Project Details Page. As the Evaluation starts, you may find the need to disqualify or eliminate a vendor from the Active Submissions list (your shortlist of vendors). 

You can perform this action in Bonfire by going under Submissions and along the row of the vendor you wish to eliminate; press Actions, and click Eliminate:

Then provide a reason for why you're eliminating the vendor from the running:

Once you click Eliminate the submission will no longer appear under Active Submissions. Instead, it will appear under a new heading as shown below:

All scores entered for the eliminated proposals are still visible under the Scoring Summary:

For an additional view to the above, the eliminated proposals can be viewed by clicking on the supplier name under Scoring Summary, which will open up this view:

From the Reviewer's/Evaluator's and Advisor's perspective, they can see that a proposal has been eliminated and the reason why, but they don't have access to the documents of the eliminated proposal: 

Observers will be able to view an eliminated vendor's submission documents under the Submissions section. They will see a link to "Show the Eliminated Submission":

Lastly, the vendor is not notified when their submission is eliminated. Eliminating a vendor is a completely internal process in Bonfire.

Note: If you've eliminated a Vendor's submission and you have decided that you would like it to be Active again you can make this change by following our Can I reinstate an eliminated submission? page.