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# Awarding
Once your event has closed and you have received bids from your suppliers, the next step is to award the event. The awarding experience in Fairmarkit is designed to be flexible and intuitive, allowing you to award to one or multiple suppliers across your event's line items, worksheets, and questionnaires.
### The Awarding Process
The awarding process is a three-step workflow:
1. **Select**: From Compare Bids, choose which supplier wins each line item or worksheet lot — for questionnaires, you're awarding the supplier's response as a whole.
2. **Review**: On the Award Selection page, confirm or adjust your selections before committing.
3. **Finalize.** Provide a reason for your selection and confirm the award.
### Step 1: Selecting Suppliers for Award
From the **Compare Bids** tab, you can view all supplier responses side-by-side. To begin the awarding process, simply click on the cells corresponding to the line items you want to award to each supplier.
Click on the cells corresponding to the line items, worksheet lots, or questionnaires you want to award to each supplier - your selections are highlighted. Once you've made at least one selection, the **Proceed to Award** button appears in place of **Close now**. Click it to move to the Award Selection page, where you'll see the award total and savings.
To award all items to a single supplier, select each item individually or use the supplier award icon.
Once you've made all your selections, click **Proceed to Award** to move to the Award Selection page.
### Step 2: Reviewing your Award Selection
Clicking **Proceed to Award** takes you to the **Award Selection** page — a dedicated step in the sourcing process (shown as **Award** in the left-hand rail), rather than a pop-up. This gives you room to review and adjust before committing:
* Header metrics for **Award total**, **Awarded** (broken out by items, worksheets, and questionnaires), **Total savings**, and **Awarded across** (number of rounds).
* A card per awarded supplier showing savings, bid items, and total value.
* A line-item breakdown under each supplier — for each line item, a **round** dropdown lets you choose which round's bid to award (e.g. awarding the frozen fries from Supplier A's round 1 bid, but the frozen fish from Supplier B's round 2 bid). You can also remove an item from the award entirely. Questionnaire awards appear at the supplier level rather than as a line.
* A **Start new round** option for running another round of the event — whether that's chasing updated pricing, requesting clarification from suppliers, or continuing to negotiate before you finalize the award. see [Multi-round Sourcing](https://app.gitbook.com/o/bXdCkjB4aWc3Xf4bpixx/sites/site_oPy6p/s/4FkJNKU48th4PwZolJLg/~/edit/~/changes/127/product-guides/multi-round-sourcing)
### Step 2: Finalize our Award Selection
In the final step, you will be asked to provide a reason for your selection. This is a required step and helps to maintain a clear audit trail for your sourcing events.
You can choose from a list of predefined reasons or select "Other" to provide a custom reason.
Once you have provided a reason, click **Finalize Award** to complete the process.
### After the Award
Once the award is finalized, the event status changes to **Completed**, and **Award** in the **Sourcing process** panel becomes a **Completed Award** summary showing:
* **Total spend**, **Awarded** items and worksheets, and **Total savings** across the event.
* A breakdown per supplier of savings, bid items, and total value.
If the event includes a questionnaire, the awarded supplier's questionnaire response is noted separately in the summary, since it doesn't carry a dollar value the way line items and worksheet lots do.
### Awarding Questionnaires and Worksheets
For questionnaire-only events, the header metrics and supplier cards won't show dollar figures or item counts — since there's no priced object, the page simply lists the supplier you are awarding.
Worksheets operate at the lot level. Any individual worksheet can be awarded to any individual supplier and the count of worksheets awarded will be shown in the header metrics
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