The Vendor Management Solution contains a wide range of features and provides your contracting professionals with the workflows and tools they need to effectively manage vendors, create notices, and keep opportunities up-to-date. It provides a comprehensive view of vendors' proposals and questions, which improves visibility and allows you to keep all of your procurement opportunities on track.

Feature matrix

Area	Feature	Description	User/Group Access	VM Version	Appian Platform*
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Opportunity Summary Landing Page	A summary view of opportunities highlighting recently created opportunities.	Contracting, Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Set up Opportunity Wizard	A guided process to set up the opportunity details, attachments, and required documents (either manually or by importing an opportunity from SAM.gov).	Contracting	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Continue Set-up	Ability to continue or update the set-up steps as more opportunity information is collected.	Contracting	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Amend Notice	Ability to amend opportunities after they have been posted.	Contracting	1.3+	22.4+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Close Opportunity	Ability to close opportunity and stop receiving submissions from vendors.	Contracting	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Create Update	Ability to create an update related to an opportunity that is posted to the opportunity summary and the vendors' home page.	Contracting	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	View and Download Proposals	Ability to view and download proposals submitted by vendors.	Contracting	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Answer Vendor Questions	Ability to view and provide answers to questions submitted by vendors.	Contracting	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Group Vendor Questions	Ability to group questions into similar categories using Appian AI.	Contracting	1.4+	23.2+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	File Award Documents	Ability to send award documents submitted by vendors to the contract file in Award Management.	Contracting	1.3+	22.4+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Messaging	Ability to send and receive messages from vendors.	Contracting	1.3+	22.4+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Register Vendor	Ability to add a vendor to the vendor record, giving them access to Vendor Management.	Contracting	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Edit Vendor Profile	Ability to update a vendor's profile in the vendor record.	Contracting	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Configure Portal	Ability to configure the public Vendor Portal's images, labels, footer links, and more.	Admin	1.1+	22.2+
Vendor Management Site (Contracting & Admin)	Configure Message Templates	Ability to configure message templates that can be referenced to more quickly write messages.	Admin	1.3+	22.4+
Vendor Management Site (Vendors)	Opportunity Summary Landing Page	A summary view of opportunities highlighting opportunities, upcoming deadlines, and updates.	Vendor POC & Vendor Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Vendors)	Mark as Interested	Ability for vendor to mark themself as interested in an opportunity and start uploading proposal documents.	Vendor POC & Vendor Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Vendors)	Upload Proposal Documents	Ability to upload proposal documents without automatically submitting.	Vendor POC & Vendor Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Vendors)	Submit Proposal	Ability to submit proposal when all documents have been uploaded.	Vendor POC & Vendor Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Vendors)	Ask Questions	Ability to submit questions about an opportunity for contracting to answer.	Vendor POC & Vendor Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Vendors)	View Updates	Ability to view updates related to relevant opportunities.	Vendor POC & Vendor Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Vendors)	Upload Award Document	Ability for vendor to upload documents for an award they've been granted.	Vendor POC & Vendor Admin	1.3+	22.4+
Vendor Management Site (Vendors)	Messaging	Ability to send and receive messages from contracting.	Vendor POC & Vendor Admin	1.3+	22.4+
Vendor Management Site (Vendors)	Edit Profile	Ability to make changes to the vendor's profile.	Vendor Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Management Site (Vendors)	Update Users	Ability to add or deactivate vendor users.	Vendor Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Vendor Portal	Register	Ability for a public user to register for a vendor account in Vendor Management.	Public Vendor User	1.1+	22.2+
Vendor Portal	Log in	Ability to access and log in to Vendor Management using vendor credentials.	Public Vendor User	1.1+	22.2+
Vendor Portal	View & Search Opportunities	Ability for a public user to view and search for publicly posted opportunities.	Public Vendor User	1.1+	22.2+
Vendor Portal	View Footer Links & Documents	Ability to view links and download documents in the footer section.	Public Vendor User	1.1+	22.2+
Records	Opportunities	A defined opportunity record that stores opportunity details individually.	Contracting, Admin, Vendor POC, Vendor Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Records	Awards	A defined award record that stores awared details individually.	Contracting, Admin, Vendor POC, Vendor Admin	1.3+	22.4+
Records	Vendors	A defined vendor record.	Contracting & Admin	1.0+	22.1+
Integrations	SAM.gov	Ability to retrieve opportunity data from SAM.gov.	Privileged User	1.2+	22.3+
Integrations	Award Management	Ability to retrieve award data from and add award data to Award Management.	Privileged User	1.3+	22.4+

*Denotes the supported Appian platform version for the corresponding solution feature.