Checks the desk keeps on the evidence ledger
Model identity
Manufacturer, model, and hardware revision must appear on the quote and on the datasheet. A marketing name such as outdoor bridge is not an identifier.
Radio rows
Frequency range, MIMO, channel width, transmit power, and receiver sensitivity stay attached to that revision. If a row is missing, the comparison cell stays blank.
Power and port
Power input, Power over Ethernet class, port count, and port speed are copied from the factory reply, not from the buyer wish list, until both match.
Commercial basis
Currency, Incoterm, quantity, and lead-time basis are separate cells. A target budget, per unit or whole order, is optional and is not treated as a factory offer.
The desk does not publish a founding year, a headcount, or a factory audit score because those records are not in the site brief. Supplier ISO 9001 evidence, when a buyer asks for it, has to come from the proposed factory with a current certificate number. LinkScope Sourcing 20 does not lend its own certificate, because it is not the manufacturer.
Forwarding rate and switching capacity are requested when the CPE is more than a single bridge. For a simple wifi bridge they can be marked not applicable so factories do not invent a chassis figure.
Wavelength, dispersion, and optical budget appear if the handoff is an SFP cage rather than Cat6. In that case the buyer adds fiber mode, connector, and reach. An empty optical row is better than a copied transceiver table.
OEM-coded software and a compatible build are not the same line. The OEM path may follow the host vendor support policy more directly. A compatible build can widen the factory list only after the exact platform, license, and advisory list are named. Keep both offers in separate rows, and do not treat a boot test on a similar host as approval for this one.
Procurement scenario: two factories, one unfinished antenna choice
Background: a buyer can name the CPE family and a 24-piece quantity for a US warehouse, but the antenna is still either a 14 dBi panel or a 19 dBi grid. Process: the desk sends both options as separate lines, asks for VSWR and 50 ohm impedance on each, and requests ingress protection evidence for the chassis that will actually ship. Result: the replies can be compared without blending the two antennas into one price. The desk does not pick a winner and does not publish a client quote.
See the Cat6 quotation scope and the procurement brief for the field list used in reviews.
