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CHALLENGE 04Procurement

Autonomous Requirement-to-Quotation Procurement System

Transform procurement requests into evaluated quotations with an autonomous AI agent.

Problem Context

Procurement teams process hundreds of requests manually — extracting requirements from emails and documents, normalising specifications, soliciting vendor quotes and evaluating trade-offs under cost and compliance constraints. This is repetitive, time-consuming and error-prone.

Challenge Requirement

Build an AI agent that extracts requirements from unstructured requests, normalises specifications, checks constraints, analyses costs and trade-offs, detects anomalies, simulates vendor clarification and negotiation, and routes for approval.

Mandatory Capabilities (8)

01Requirement extraction
02Document / email parsing
03Specification normalisation
04Constraint checking
05Cost and trade-off analysis
06Anomaly detection
07Simulated vendor clarification / negotiation
08Approval workflow

Illustrative Scenario

A facilities request arrives as a loosely formatted email. The agent extracts 12 specifications, normalises units, identifies a non-compliant cheaper vendor (missing required certification), flags the anomaly, simulates a clarification exchange to request compliance documentation, and presents an evaluated shortlist to the procurement manager for approval.

Safety & Governance Rules

Vendor selection decisions must include an explicit compliance check. Any non-compliant vendor recommendation must be clearly flagged with the specific failed criterion.

RECOMMENDED EXECUTION TRACE

Parse procurement request
Extract and normalise specifications
Check compliance constraints
Evaluate vendors & costs
Detect anomalies & non-compliance
Simulate vendor clarification
Generate evaluated shortlist
Route for approval

BUILD REQUIREMENT

Demonstrate requirement extraction from unstructured input, specification normalisation, vendor evaluation with anomaly detection, simulated negotiation, and approval workflow.

End-to-End System Required

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