The Procurement Items log window lists every procurement document. Use this module to enter and track information for your procurement process, and then award a contract to the winning bidder.
From this window, you can look at details of a procurement document, or add a new document. You can also Award a Procurement Item to a Bidder, view Procurement Statistics Dialog Box and Bidder Statistics Dialog Box, Import Dialog Box and Export Dialog Box, print a report, or Print and Preview Logs As-Is.
Buttons, Drop-Down Lists, Icons, and Links:
Add Document
Click to add a new document.
Print Report 
Click to print the default report.
Award Items 
Click to display the Award Contract/PO Dialog Box. Use that dialog box to award a contract or purchase order to the winning bidder of procurement items.
Select an action
Click to display the list of actions you can perform on the current window.
Layout
Click to select a different layout for the log window.
Transmittals Queue
Click to display the items in the Transmittals Queue. From there you can select the create or remove functions that you want to perform on a transmittal.
User Productivity Kit
Click the User Productivity Kit link to launch the User Productivity Kit (sold separately), which you can use to view context-sensitive tutorials specific to the page you are viewing.
The Applicable Content checkbox will be marked. If specific tutorial content exists, select the appropriate link to display it. If specific tutorial content does not exist, clear the Applicable Content checkbox to choose from the list of available general tutorials.
Edit Document 
Click to open the document in Edit mode.
Find
Click to filter all items in the active table by a particular word or phrase.
Control Center
Click to return to the Workspace.
Columns:
Spec Section
The specification item that best describes this item. Documents can be sorted or filtered by their respective specification numbers so you can easily locate and view documents of a particular spec type.
The specification section codes are part of the MasterFormat standard coding system, which was developed by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and the Construction Specifications Canada (CSC).
You can add a new specification section to this list by right-clicking on the top-level folder and choosing Dictionaries, Specification Sections.
Title
The name of the item.
Purchase Type
The purchase type for the procurement item.
Procurement Estimate
The total of the Estimate column on the Bid Tabulation tab of the Procurement Item document window.
Lowest Complete Bid
The value of the lowest complete bid.
Lowest Complete Bidder
The company name of the lowest complete bidder.
Bid Package
The name of the bid package to which this item applies.
Division
The CSI division that this procurement item falls under.
Approved
Indicates whether this procurement item has been approved.
Complete
Indicates how many bids are complete.
For a procurement item to be complete, every scope and general item of the procurement item has to be complete. If an item is set to Plug, it does not count as complete.
Awarded
Indicates whether the procurement item has been awarded.
Scope Items
Indicates the number of scope items in this procurement item. Scope items are the individual components that make up the procurement item.
Award Value
The final award value of the procurement item. This field is blank until the procurement item has been awarded.
Savings
The amount saved off of the original procurement estimate.
Calculation: Procurement Estimate - Award Value
This field is blank until the procurement item has been awarded.
Activity ID
The P6 EPPM activity associated with this item.
Required Award Date
If you use P6 EPPM, this is the schedule's early start date.
Anticipated Award Date
A date that might be different from the actual Required Award Date. This is the date you expect to award by, but it's not necessarily an absolute deadline.
Date Awarded
The date the procurement item was awarded, which comes from the Award Wizard. This field is blank until the procurement item has been awarded.
Awarded To
The company the procurement item was awarded to, which comes from the Award Wizard. This field is blank until the procurement item has been awarded.
Contract
The contract created for the procurement item to the winning company, which comes from the Award Wizard. This field is blank until the procurement item has been awarded.
Contract Approved
Indicates whether the contract is fully approved. This field is blank until the procurement item has been awarded.
Buyer
After the contract is awarded, this field defaults to the project's procurement manager (from the Project Settings Dialog Box). If that was left blank, it defaults to the document's current user.
Custom Field columns
Each custom field assigned to the issues table is shown with applicable values. Custom fields enable you to define additional information about a project; define them outside the project by right-clicking on the top-level folder (All Projects) in the Project View and choosing Custom Fields.
Select an action
Click to display the list of actions you can perform on the current window.
How to access this log window:
Expand the Contract Information folder in the Project View and click Procurement.
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Last Published Wednesday, June 17, 2015