eRFX Sourcing Portal

eRFX Sourcing Portal is a cloud application for aerospace estimation and procurement professionals making sourcing decisions at quoting and award stages. Its customer portal supports sourcing raw material, hardware, final processing, and manufactured or fabricated detail components from multiple suppliers. Buyers can generate proposals, compare costs, pre-select vendors from a processing database, and manage vendor NDAs. The supplier portal helps distributors, detail component manufacturers, and final processing providers handle RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs from multiple customers, with quick quote submission, configurable workflows, and automated email messaging. The service is available on the web and through an API, and the site says it integrates with CPQ Aero. Customer Portal costs nothing and includes 1GB engineering data storage and 2GB transfer per month. Supplier Portal costs $15 a month and offers a 90-day free trial; Gold Supplier costs $500 a month. Supplier portals require registration and approval, which the site says takes 6–18 hours. Engineering files are stored in AWS during bidding and deleted after 30 days or bid closure. eRFX is a product of RFQ2Go Inc., headquartered in Toronto.

eRFX provides separate portals for customer sourcing and supplier quoting, with a free customer tier and paid supplier options. Review its storage and transfer allowances, approval process, and plan prices before choosing a portal.

eRFX suits aerospace buyers and suppliers handling sourcing and quote workflows across multiple vendors or customers. It is relevant to teams working with RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs at quoting and award stages.

eRFX Sourcing Portal is a cloud service that gives buyers and suppliers separate workspaces for sourcing, quoting, and bid awards. It fits aerospace procurement teams and component suppliers that need structured RFQ traffic across multiple companies. Its free customer tier is generous on transaction volume, while storage, transfer, supplier connections, and approval timing determine whether it suits your operation.

Overview

eRFX targets estimation and procurement professionals at the quoting and award stages. The customer side gathers bids for raw material, hardware, final processing, and manufactured or fabricated detail components from multiple vendors. The supplier side centralizes RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs arriving from different customers. The product is made by RFQ2Go Inc. and is presented for aerospace work, with Airbus, Boeing, and Bombardier listed among supported aircraft platforms.

Key features

Customer users can generate proposals automatically and compare costs across responses. A processing-database vendor pre-selection tool helps narrow the supplier pool, while vendor NDA management handles confidentiality steps around a solicitation. Unlimited RFQs, RFPs, and RFIs on the free customer plan benefit teams running frequent events, but the included 1GB of engineering-file storage and 2GB monthly transfer can become a practical constraint for drawing-heavy bids. Extra storage costs $5 per GB and extra transfer costs $1 per GB.

Supplier users get quick quote submission, configurable workflows, and automated email messaging. Those tools are most relevant to distributors, detail-component manufacturers, and final-processing providers that answer recurring requests from several customers. eRFX says it integrates with CPQ Aero. Gold Supplier adds custom API configuration for ERP software, giving suppliers with integration requirements a materially different option from the basic portal.

Engineering files are held in AWS cloud storage during bidding and deleted after 30 days or when the bid closes. SSL encryption secures transmission. Customer and supplier portals are approved within 6–18 hours after signup; supplier access is free for 90 days after registration and approval. Technical support is included with the plans, with phone support at 647-472-RFQ2 (7372), Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

Pricing

Customer Portal

The Customer Portal costs nothing and includes unlimited RFQs, RFPs, and RFIs. It provides 1GB of engineering-data storage and 2GB of transfer each month. Raw Material & Final Processing Portals cost $25/month, while storage and transfer beyond the allowance are metered at $5/GB and $1/GB. This is the logical starting point for buyers with modest file traffic; engineering-intensive programs should budget for overages.

Supplier Portal

Supplier Portal is $15 a month, billed $15/month, after a 90-day free trial. It includes unlimited RFQ, RFP, and RFI responses and connects to three customer accounts. Each additional connection costs $5/month. The plan suits smaller suppliers that work with a limited set of buyers, but connection fees rise as the customer network expands.

Gold Supplier

Gold Supplier costs $500 a month, billed $500/month. It keeps unlimited response volume and customer connections, then adds custom API configuration for ERP software. The price is aimed at established suppliers whose integration and broad account coverage justify a much higher fixed commitment.

Platforms

eRFX is offered through web and API access. The API option matters most to organizations planning system-to-system workflows, while web access covers portal-based sourcing and response collection.

Who it's for

Choose eRFX when your work involves aerospace components, formal RFQs, and collaboration between buyers and suppliers. It is especially suitable for customers that need unlimited solicitation activity at no license cost, and for suppliers that can stay within three customer connections or need Gold’s ERP API configuration. It is less compelling for teams whose bids routinely exceed the free file allowances or suppliers that need many connections without incremental fees.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Separate customer and supplier portals keep sourcing and quoting workflows focused.
• Pro: Customer users receive unlimited RFQs, RFPs, and RFIs at no license cost.
• Pro: Automated proposal generation, cost comparison, vendor pre-selection, and NDA management cover important buyer tasks.
• Pro: Gold Supplier combines unlimited connections with custom ERP API configuration.
• Con: The free customer allowance is only 1GB of storage and 2GB of monthly transfer, with paid overages.
• Con: Supplier Portal limits included connections to three and charges $5/month for each additional one.
• Con: Portal approval can take 6–18 hours, so access is not immediate after signup.
• Con: Gold Supplier’s $500 monthly price is a substantial commitment for smaller vendors.

Alternatives

For a broader shortlist, see RFP Software.

• BidNet Direct is a better fit when you want a web-based marketplace with a free Basic plan for member-agency opportunities, bid submission, and real-time matches; its Regional plan costs $200.
• RFP360.AI suits users seeking free buyer or supplier entry plans with explicit one-user and one-response or one-publish limits.
• Daliio is worth choosing when a free web plan with three active tenders, 15 bid evaluations, two evaluator seats, 1GB storage, and email support matches your scale.
• PowerRFP is an alternative for web teams wanting unlimited RFP projects, up to five active at once, AI drafts, messaging, and milestone tracking on its free Starter plan.
• RFP Stack is another freemium web option for proposal work.
• ARCUS eRFX is a paid web-based alternative.
• Ombud is a paid web service with custom pricing and demo-based purchasing.
• Scanmarket eRFx is a paid API and web option sold through a demo-led process.

Verdict

eRFX Sourcing Portal is a strong choice for aerospace buyers that need unlimited sourcing activity without a customer-license fee, and for suppliers managing recurring RFQs through a dedicated portal. Its main reasons to look elsewhere are the customer tier’s small storage and transfer allowances, per-connection supplier charges, and the steep Gold price. If those limits align with your volume, eRFX provides a focused buyer-supplier workflow with useful bid automation and an upgrade path to ERP integration.