Procurement strategy · classroom game

Procurement Crisis Room

Compete across six supplier-award rounds. Read bids and market signals, allocate each contract, then reveal demand surges, congestion, quality escapes, carbon prices and geopolitical interruptions. Everyone joining through the Host QR plays the same hidden sequence.

How to play

Read the tender. Compare bid, capacity, service, quality, carbon and risk.
Build the award. Allocate exactly 100% across the four qualified suppliers.
Reveal the market. The hidden event changes actual delivery, cost and quality.
Win on total value. High service, low TCO and controlled concentration earn points.

Round 1 of 6

Baseline tender

Market conditions are stable. Establish a defensible starting portfolio.

Quick award strategies

Contract allocation

Total award100%

Scoring

Service protects the largest share of points
Bid price is adjusted for quality and carbon
Extreme concentration creates a risk penalty
Unused capacity does not earn points
Maximum score: 6,000

Cumulative score

0

Round service

-

Evaluated spend

-

Scope 3

-

Concentration

40%

Live supplier award networkTender open · decision pending

TENDER OPEN

Allocation packets show planned volume. The market event remains hidden until the award is locked.

Demand0

Delivered -

Round points -

Market event

Round points0

Actual service0%

Purchase + expedite$0

Quality loss$0

Carbon cost$0

Cumulative points race

Benchmark uses a balanced dual-source rule on the same market events.

Award exposure by round

Repeated concentration compounds exposure even when each individual bid looks attractive.

Game complete

About this tool

The concept

Awarding contracts under uncertainty: the cheapest bid and the safest bid are seldom the same supplier, and you commit before the shock is revealed.

How it works

Six rounds. You read bids and market signals and allocate each contract; only then do demand surges, congestion, quality escapes, carbon prices and geopolitical interruptions land. With a shared class seed every team sees identical bids and identical shocks, so the scores are directly comparable.

Winning strategy

Single-source the cheapest bid and you win the quiet rounds and lose the loud ones. Split awards cost a premium every round and buy you the tail, the same trade the Robust Optimisation tool prices exactly.

Synthetic teaching data; Host creates a time-limited QR, a shared scenario and a live class leaderboard. Background: Strategic sourcing · Supply chain risk management