Digital Source Selection

Digital Source Selection

Digital Source Selection

Building a Seamless Proposal Evaluation Tool

Building a Seamless Proposal Evaluation Tool

Building a Seamless Proposal Evaluation Tool

Bidscale's Digital Source Selection tool enables users to evaluate and compare proposals to award government contracts. The tool has three primary users; evaluators, consensus leads, and auditors.

Bidscale's Digital Source Selection tool enables users to evaluate and compare proposals to award government contracts. The tool has three primary users; evaluators, consensus leads, and auditors.

Bidscale's Digital Source Selection tool enables users to evaluate and compare proposals to award government contracts. The tool has three primary users; evaluators, consensus leads, and auditors.

Client

Bidscale

Services

Visual Design UI & UX Design

Industries

Government Software

Date

July 2024

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App Screen with open sidebar
App Screen with open sidebar
The Challenge

In order to create a new and improved digital source selection tool, it was important to first conduct user interviews across each government agency in the tool. In interviews, users addressed work arounds and pain points they encountered when evaluating proposals. We identified 6 major pain points users had when using the tool including:​

  1. Users were unaware there were multiple viewing options

  2. No easy access to definitions

  3. No way to create a general finding

  4. No way to quickly selecting a rating

  5. No way to search a document

  6. Accidentally deleting a finding instead of annotations

As a part of the research process we also developed five new government user personas to help the team empathize with our end users and understand the unique needs of different roles. All personas represent a specific government role.

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Homescreen with open bottom drawer
Homescreen with open bottom drawer

The Approach

In order to create a new and improved digital source selection tool, it was important to first conduct user interviews across each government agency in the tool. In interviews, users addressed work arounds and pain points they encountered when evaluating proposals. We identified 6 major pain points users had when using the tool including:​

  1. Users were unaware there were multiple viewing options

  2. No easy access to definitions

  3. No way to create a general finding

  4. No way to quickly selecting a rating

  5. No way to search a document

  6. Accidentally deleting a finding instead of annotations

As a part of the research process we also developed five new government user personas to help the team empathize with our end users and understand the unique needs of different roles. All personas represent a specific government role.

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App Measure Weight Screen
App Measure Weight Screen

The Results

In order to create a new and improved digital source selection tool, it was important to first conduct user interviews across each government agency in the tool. In interviews, users addressed work arounds and pain points they encountered when evaluating proposals. We identified 6 major pain points users had when using the tool including:​

  1. Users were unaware there were multiple viewing options

  2. No easy access to definitions

  3. No way to create a general finding

  4. No way to quickly selecting a rating

  5. No way to search a document

  6. Accidentally deleting a finding instead of annotations

As a part of the research process we also developed five new government user personas to help the team empathize with our end users and understand the unique needs of different roles. All personas represent a specific government role.