Bidding Engine - Vendor couldn't answer mandatory questions (attributes)

Hello everybody,
I have a question in case of the bidding engine. If I'm logged in as a vendor and answer mandatory questions (attributes) for the RFX the system does not save the answers.
Does anybody know about the problem and can help me?
Regards, Andi

Hi,
For the particular Bid Attributes might have defined before the bids are published.
When the vendor submits the bid these attrbutes have to be answered and the sumbit button is pressed
so that the attributes are answered (or) it can held that is saved and after that it is submitted
Regards
Ganesh

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