A sheet metal supplier's playbook on responding to BOQs in record time — using Sourceby's structured submission flow.
SheetMaster Pro fabricates precision sheet-metal assemblies at ±0.05 mm tolerance. Buyers sent BOQs as PDFs; estimation re-drew quantities, looked up materials, and built a quote document from scratch for every event. A complex BOQ took five weeks to respond to — and slow responses lost awards before the price was even seen.
On Sourceby, BOQs arrive line-structured with materials and quantities attached. SheetMaster's estimation team responds line by line, reusing standard process and costing data instead of rebuilding it per quote.
Response time on complex BOQs fell from five weeks to a single day. Because quotes now arrive early and complete, SheetMaster's win rate rose 38% — they are in the room while buyers are still comparing, not after the shortlist is closed.
If you quote faster than your competitors, you win events you never used to see the inside of. Build the costing template once, structure every response against the buyer's lines, and measure response time as a KPI — it is the cheapest win-rate lever a supplier has.
By moving from email and spreadsheet RFQs to structured Sourceby events, Vertex Forge's procurement team scaled supplier reach 40×, normalized response comparison, and shrank award decisions from weeks to days — without adding headcount.
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