# Evaluation and scoring

With Evaluation and Scoring, you and your team of evaluators can now enter scores on your request for proposal events, allowing you to make informed awarding decisions and keep a historical record of your decisions.

### [Add evaluation criteria](/buyers/events/evaluation-and-scoring/add-evaluation-criteria.md) <a href="#addevaluationcriteria" id="addevaluationcriteria"></a>

On the Evaluation criteria page in your request for proposal or request for information event, you can set up the criteria to use when scoring and evaluating your event. For your event, you'll want to set an evaluation period and then set an evaluation weight for each section, skipping any unnecessary sections. You can add or edit evaluation criteria from the Evaluation criteria page while the event is in draft, open, or closed status.

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### [Invite evaluators](/buyers/events/evaluation-and-scoring/manage-evaluators.md) <a href="#inviteevaluators" id="inviteevaluators"></a>

With Evaluation and Scoring, you and your team of evaluators can now enter scores on your request for proposal and request for information events, allowing you to make informed awarding decisions and keep a historical record of your decisions. Evaluators can only view the sections they are assigned and cannot view other evaluators' scores. Only you, the event owner, admins, supervisors, and team leads can see the evaluators' responses. You can add evaluators until the evaluation period ends.

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### [Score the event](/buyers/events/evaluation-and-scoring/score-an-event.md) <a href="#scoretheevent" id="scoretheevent"></a>

Evaluators will have access to either view or edit the event, allowing them to review all of the invited suppliers' responses and then score the event on the Scoring page. Evaluators can only score the assigned sections and not view other evaluators' scores.

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### [Evaluate scorecard](/buyers/events/evaluation-and-scoring/evaluate-a-scorecard.md) <a href="#evaluatescorecard" id="evaluatescorecard"></a>

At the end of the evaluation period, you can review the consolidated scorecard, which ranks supplier responses by score and highlights the highest-ranking supplier response in each section.

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