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Live Auctions
Real-time competitive bidding with supplier ranking visibility. Suppliers see where they stand — and react.
Purchasing 4.0
Augmented Negotiation.
Gone are slow, sequential, and opaque negotiations. Welcome to synchronized, transparent, and stimulating competition — where your strategic co-pilot amplifies decision intelligence.
Trusted by procurement teams who refuse to settle
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Beyond Traditional E-Auctions
One platform. Five capabilities. Total leverage.
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Multi-Criteria Evaluation
Score beyond price. Quality, delivery, sustainability — all weighted, all transparent.
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Benchmarking
Compare offers against targets, market data, and your own historical performance.
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Analytics
Dashboards and reports that show what worked, what didn't, and what to negotiate next time.
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AI-Powered Insights
Automated opportunity identification and strategy suggestions — your decision-making exoskeleton.
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Built for Buyers
Designed with procurement teams running complex, non-commodity negotiations every week.
How It Works
From RFQ to award — in days, not quarters.
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Design your event
Define lots, criteria, weights, and suppliers. Templates available for recurring categories.
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Invite suppliers
Onboard your suppliers in minutes — no training required to participate.
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Run the live event
Synchronized competition replaces sequential back-and-forth. Suppliers iterate; you watch the dynamics unfold.
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Award with confidence
Multi-criteria scoring, full audit trail, and AI-flagged opportunities — defensible decisions, every time.
Traditional vs. Nestor
The difference shows up in the margin.
Traditional sequential RFQ
- Weeks of back-and-forth emails
- Suppliers blind to competitive position
- Price-only comparisons
- Manual scoring spreadsheets
- Opaque, hard to defend
Nestor augmented negotiation
- Synchronized live competition
- Real-time ranking visibility
- Multi-criteria, weighted scoring
- Automated benchmarking & analytics
- Transparent, auditable, defensible
From the blog
Field notes on procurement & negotiation
Why Reverse Auctions Are No Longer Enough
Introduction Reverse auctions transformed procurement by introducing real-time supplier competition and driving immediate cost reductions. For many organizations, they represented a major step forward compared to traditional email-based…
Read more →Why Procurement Digitalization Often Stops Before Negotiation
Introduction Procurement digitalization has accelerated significantly over the last decade. Organizations now use digital tools for: Yet negotiation itself often remains surprisingly manual. Negotiation Is Still Highly Fragmented…
Read more →What Is Augmented Negotiation?
Introduction Procurement negotiation has traditionally relied on spreadsheets, emails, phone calls, and fragmented supplier information. While sourcing and procurement processes have become increasingly digitalized, negotiation itself often remains…
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