Quotes that cannot be compared can trace back to a request that left room for each supplier to answer a slightly different question. The decision this page serves is what has to be written into a request for quotation, and in what form, so the answers come back on the same footing.
You bring a specification, a drawing, a sample description or a product brief, written for your own team. We translate it into an RFQ document: the item described in terms a supplier can price, the quantities and any ranges you want priced separately, the commercial terms you ask each supplier to state, and a response sheet with the same rows for everyone. You receive the RFQ itself, a note of the assumptions we made, and the points in your specification that were ambiguous and need your decision before sending.
We draft and structure the request. Negotiating with suppliers and placing orders are outside the service. Where the specification touches a regulated requirement, the RFQ asks the supplier to state what it holds and does not say what is required.
The risk is that a supplier prices a looser version. The RFQ separates what is mandatory from what is preferred and asks each supplier to flag any deviation it assumed, so a cheaper answer cannot hide a changed part.
The sample carries qualities the words do not. The RFQ turns the visible attributes into stated points, asks for the supplier's own wording of material and finish, and marks which attributes you want matched exactly.
The existing invoice quietly contains terms nobody wrote down. We lift them out of the paperwork and into the request so new suppliers answer against the same real conditions.
A well-formed request makes a gap visible; it does not stop a supplier from stating something optimistic.
Which suppliers to ask and how many volumes to price are decisions you take; we draft within them.
We list the statements a supplier could read two ways, the missing quantity bases and the attributes that are described but not measurable.
Each ambiguity returns to you as a question with the realistic options, because the choice changes the price and is yours to make.
Units, currency basis, quantity breaks, validity and the commercial terms each supplier must state are laid out as a response sheet, so the later comparison is a matter of reading across.
The document and the assumptions note go to you together, so you can see which line of the request rests on a guess.
Research reports what can be established from public and provided sources. It is not a guarantee about a counterparty's future conduct and not legal advice.
The service is drafting the RFQ, a quote collection framework and the comparison of the answers. Negotiating with suppliers and placing orders are outside it.
That is a normal starting point. The assumptions note will show what we had to infer from the sample, and each of those points is returned to you to confirm.
It asks suppliers to state the delivery basis they quote on. Shipping itself is a separate LATYNEX service.
No obligation. We read your request and reply with a straight answer.
Tell us what you need to find out and by when. We confirm scope before any work starts.
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