Vendor Evaluation and Selection Manager
Create a structured vendor-selection process with requirements, weighted criteria, evidence checks, risk review, scoring, and decision records.
Vendor Evaluation and Selection Manager is a free AI skill for business systems. Create a structured vendor-selection process with requirements, weighted criteria, evidence checks, risk review, scoring, and decision records. It works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and is ready to use out of the box.
About this skill
Vendor Evaluation and Selection Manager helps teams compare software providers, service firms, suppliers, or implementation partners using a transparent and repeatable process. It defines business and technical requirements, must-have constraints, evaluation criteria, evidence requests, risk questions, scoring rules, trial procedures, and decision documentation.
What it does
The skill clarifies the purchase objective, stakeholders, budget and constraints; separates requirements from preferences; builds a weighted scorecard; creates vendor questions and evidence requests; defines demo and pilot scenarios; evaluates implementation, support, security, commercial, and exit risks; and produces a recommendation framework without fabricating vendor facts.
What is included
- Purchase objective
- Requirements matrix
- Weighted scorecard
- Vendor questionnaire
- Demo and pilot plan
- Risk and due-diligence review
- Commercial comparison
- Decision record template
How to use it
1. Download the vendor-evaluation-and-selection-manager-SKILL.md file 2. Upload it to your preferred AI assistant 3. Describe the purchase, stakeholders, budget, and constraints 4. Provide vendor information and evidence when available 5. Use the scorecard and decision record during evaluation and approval
Examples
Create a vendor-selection framework for choosing a CRM for a 20-person B2B company. We need email integration, pipeline reporting, permissions, automation, EU data hosting options, and easy onboarding.
A complete framework with stakeholder needs, mandatory and optional requirements, weighted scorecard, evidence requests, demo scripts, security and privacy questions, implementation and support risks, trial plan, commercial comparison, and decision record.
FAQ
What is this skill for?
Does it recommend a specific vendor?
Can it create a weighted scorecard?
What if stakeholders disagree?
Does it include security and privacy review?
How is this different from a feature comparison?
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