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ABF Transforms Freight & Logistics Procurement with Keelvar
services
Keelvar for services
Scope varies, comparisons are rarely apples-to-apples, and outcomes depend too much on who ran the last event. Keelvar changes that.
Trusted by industry leading procurement teams globally
What services procurement teams can expect to achieve with Keelvar
$130M
cost savings
53%
decrease in time to launch event
97%
bidder participation
$1.3bn
spend optimized
Better sourcing outcomes for services
Consulting, temp labour, facilities management — each has its own variables, its own supplier dynamics, its own definition of value. Keelvar gives your team the tools to handle that consistently.
Make award decisions based on total value, not just price
Model scenarios across cost, service quality, delivery capability, risk, and compliance simultaneously — so every award reflects the full picture, not just the headline number.
When service agreements reach their end date or requirements shift, trigger new sourcing events automatically — without relying on manual reminders or calendar tracking.
Build best practices once, apply them everywhere
Create sourcing workflows for your key services categories — consulting, contingent labour, facilities management, security services — and reuse them consistently across every business unit and region.
When services prices move, act before costs do
Automate bid invites, supplier reminders, data validation, and conditional awarding. Your team focuses on the decisions that need them, not the administration that doesn't.
Dynamic feedback shows suppliers where they stand in real time — driving stronger competition and better outcomes across every services event you run.
Do you need a tool built for the variability of services sourcing?
Keelvar is built for the sourcing events most tools can't handle — and the high-volume events most teams don't have time for.
Keelvar features
We couldn’t fit them all on a webpage. But here are the features your team will ask about first.
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"You don't even have to train the teams to use it. You now have [an agent] do all the work of building and creating the events for you."
$64 M
in savings in one year
“Keelvar is an incredibly easy to use tool both from a bidder and a purchaser perspective. It’s a huge win for us to not have to go through training, and debugging, and support issues with our vendors. In the past 4 years that we’ve used the tool, I’ve never had to do it.”
$7bn
spend optimized in 1 year
“The team is seeking user-friendly tools, and Keelvar provides a state-of-the-art user experience”
+80%
user adoption in 1 year
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FAQs
Straight answers to common questions about Keelvar.
Services sourcing is more complex than goods sourcing because value is harder to compare. Suppliers offer different methodologies, resourcing models, and quality levels alongside different prices. Buyers need to evaluate non-price criteria — technical capability, experience, approach — alongside commercial terms. Standard eSourcing tools built for goods categories often cannot handle this complexity.
Keelvar supports multi-criteria evaluation for services categories. Teams design bid sheets that capture both qualitative and quantitative inputs, apply weighted scoring to different evaluation criteria, and model award scenarios that reflect their priorities. This means a professional services or consulting tender can be run with the same rigour as a goods tender — and with a full audit trail of how the award decision was reached.
Yes. Keelvar allows teams to create custom evaluation criteria with configurable weights, covering technical capability, methodology, past performance, and commercial terms. Evaluators score each supplier response within the platform, and the system aggregates scores to produce a ranked outcome. This can be combined with commercial bid analysis to give a complete picture of the best-value offer.
Routine services categories — facilities management, cleaning, security, IT support — lend themselves to automated sourcing workflows once the evaluation framework is established. Keelvar's autonomous sourcing handles the event launch, supplier engagement, and bid collection automatically. For more complex or high-value services where qualitative judgment is central, the workflow can be configured with human review at key evaluation points.
Keelvar's supplier selection tools allow teams to define qualification criteria and filter their supplier database before launching a sourcing event. For services categories where supplier qualification is important — regulated industries, high-risk categories — this ensures that only pre-qualified suppliers receive RfP invitations. The selection rationale is recorded alongside the rest of the event audit trail.