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Managing Evaluations

This content applies solely to Government Source Selection, which must be purchased separately from the Appian base platform. This content was written for Appian 23.4 and may not reflect the interfaces or functionality of other Appian versions.

Introduction

After you create a new evaluation, GSS makes it easy to view and manage the evaluation from the EVALUATIONS page. From here, you can view all existing evaluation records or search and filter the Evaluations list to return only the records you want to see. Drill down into a single evaluation to view more details or take action on the evaluation.

This page provides a brief overview of how to manage your existing evaluations.

Viewing Evaluations

To view your organization's complete list of evaluations, navigate to the EVALUATIONS page. The Evaluations list displays all existing evaluations and key details about each, including the selected evaluation method, the evaluation's start date, and the due date.

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If you want more details about a specific evaluation, use the Search field or filters to locate an evaluation or all evaluations that match specific criteria. Clicking the link associated with an Evaluation takes you to the record view.

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Each Evaluation record is organized into the following tabs:

TAB DESCRIPTION
Summary Provides detailed information about the evaluation, including the status, important dates, factors, approach, contracting team members, and more. The default tab when you open an Evaluation record.
Factors Provides information about all factors assigned to the evaluation. Expand each factor to see detailed information about any subfactors to
Vendors Provides a list of vendors assigned to the evaluation and information about each. Easily search or filter the list to display the vendors you want to see.
Ratings Provides the rating results for each vendor assigned to the evaluation, including the rating method, legend, and any related documents. Filters the rating results to view only the vendors that match your selected criteria or download a summary of the rating results for a specific vendor.
Consensus List all vendor consensuses set up for the evaluation, including the status of each. Clicking the vendor link opens the consensus report, which allows you to start the consensus or view the final report of a completed vendor consensus.
Documents Provides a list of all documents associated with an Evaluation record.
Teams Allows you to view each team assigned to an evaluation and the member names and contact information.
Tasks Provides a list of all tasks associated with the evaluation and sorts them by Outstanding, Completed, Not Needed, and Cancelled.
Task History Provides a log of all completed tasks for the evaluation.
Evaluation History Provides a log of all edits, updates, and deletions for the evaluation.
Related Actions Additional actions you can take on an evaluation, including adding tasks, uploading documents, submitting a document for review, and much more.

From the Summary view, you can also add tasks, upload documents or create a new document from a template, and continue the evaluation setup if necessary.

Need to create a new Evaluation? Click + CREATE NEW EVALUATION to open the guided wizard that walks you through each step of the setup process. See create a new evaluation for more information.

Updating evaluators

If your teams are impacted by personnel or staffing changes, GSS makes it easy for you to reflect those changes by allowing you to update your evaluation teams. Contracting personnel and evaluation chairs can add or delete team members from an evaluation team for any existing evaluations that are still in progress.

Note:  Note that you do not have the ability to make changes to an evaluator team for a completed evaluation.

Follow the steps below to add or remove team members from an evaluator team for an in-progress evaluation.

  1. Go to the EVALUATIONS page.
  2. From the Evaluations list, locate the Evaluation record associated with the team you want to update and click the record link.
  3. Select the Teams tab in an Evaluation record and click UPDATE EVALUATORS.

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  4. In the Evaluator Teams panel, select the evaluator team you want to update.

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To add new team members from an evaluator team for an in-progress evaluation:

  1. Click ADD EVALUATORS.
  2. Use the Search field to find the individuals you want to add to the evaluator team and click ADD.

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  3. Click NEXT.
  4. From the Update Evaluators form, verify that you have the correct evaluators assigned to each factor and subfactor.

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    • Note: If the due date assigned to each factor or subfactor occurs in the past, you must use the date picker to change it to a future dat before proceeding. The future due date you assign must occurs before the evaluation due date.
  5. Click UPDATE and CLOSE to go back to the Evaluation record.

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To remove team members from an evaluator team for an in-progress evaluation:

  1. From the Team Member list, select one or more team members you want to delete from the team and click REMOVE EVALUATORS.

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  2. Click NEXT.
  3. From the Update Evaluators form, verify that you have the correct evaluators assigned to each factor and subfactor.
    • Note: If the due date assigned to each factor or subfactor occurs in the past, you must use the date picker to change it to a future dat before proceeding. The future due date you assign must occurs before the evaluation due date.
  4. Click UPDATE and CLOSE to go back to the Evaluation record.

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