Procurement · RFQ auctions

Make your agents compete
for every shipment.

Invite your own forwarder and agent network to one live auction. Choose how much they see — sealed, rank-only, best-price or fully open. They bid down to win, and most of the negotiation is over before you step in.

Join the waitlistSee the live auction
Up to 60%
Lower freight cost via RFQ
1–3 days
From tender to award
8+
Agents competing in a single auction
Why this exists

Negotiating one agent at a time
is negotiating against yourself.

A phone call to Agent A. A follow-up email to Agent B. A WhatsApp voice note from Agent C, three days late. By the time you've heard from everyone, the best price you got first has probably already changed. A tender that takes four to six weeks isn't a negotiation — it's an ambush of your own patience.

How an RFQ works

Launch → bid → compare → award,
in days — not a month.

1

Build & launch

Upload many lanes at once and float the RFQ to your own agents in a single click — spot or contract.

2

Agents bid live

Invited agents bid in your chosen visibility mode — sealed, rank-only, best-price or open — and re-bid down to climb the ranking.

3

AI compares & ranks

Every bid is normalized and sanity-checked. AI recommends the best agent by cost, transit or schedule.

4

Approve & award

Route the winner through your approval matrix with documented justification — fully audit-ready.

5

Contract & track

Awarded rates become digital contracts. Susea tracks utilization so negotiated savings actually land.

You choose how much they see

Sealed, rank-only, best-price, or fully open.

Every network is different. Choose sealed bids when trust is still building, rank-only when you want agents pushing each other without seeing prices, best-price to create real urgency, or fully open when total transparency serves you. Switch per auction — it's not a one-time setup decision.

Sealed bid

Vendors see nothing until the RFQ closes — best when trust is still building.

Rank-only

Vendors see only their own rank, never competitors' prices — pushes agents to compete without full transparency.

Best price

Vendors see the lowest price, not who quoted it — creates real urgency to beat the leader.

Open auction

Everyone sees all prices and rankings — total transparency when that serves you.

RFQ-2207Nhava Sheva → Jebel Ali · 40' HC × 1208 agents invited
4:30 left
Bidder visibility
Vendors see only their own rank — never prices. · recommended
Buyer view · full visibilityRound · 1 of 3Lowest bid · $1,430Spread · $94
4
MCMeridian Cargo
$1,492 USD
8d · 94%
3
BWBlueWave Shipping
$1,468 USD
7d · 98%
2
TLTrident Logistics
$1,455 USD
9d · 91%
5
CFContinental Freight
$1,510 USD
8d · 96%
1
AXApex Forwarders
$1,430 USD
8d · 93%
6
HCHarbor & Co
$1,524 USD
10d · 89%
Agents see only their own rank — never competitors' prices.
Agent's view · BlueWave Shipping
#3 / 8
Lower your bid to climb the ranking
Your bid$1,468
AI award recommendation

Award Apex Forwarders lowest bid but best service blend: 93% on-time, 8-day transit. Updating as bids land…

Live activity
Waiting for first bids…
Approval matrix
Auction completed
2Pricing lead review
3Finance sign-off · > $150k
4Contract issued · audit-logged
The tender doesn't end at award

Chasing bids and writing justifications used to be manual too.

Susea's automation layer covers what happens around the auction, not just inside it — nudging agents who haven't bid yet, catching a bad bid before it reaches your award screen, drafting the justification memo your approval matrix needs, and flagging awarded lanes that are going underused. All human-approved, none of it retyped by hand.

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Trusted by beta partners

Built with the forwarders
who use it every day.

Our beta cohort shaped every feature. Here’s what they said.

Meridian Freight Solutions

Before Susea, our pricing desk was copy-pasting rates from four different WhatsApp groups into Excel every morning. Now we get a live comparison across 200+ carriers before the first coffee. Quotation time went from 20 minutes to under 90 seconds. That's not an exaggeration.

Arjun Mehta·Head of Pricing
BlueWave Logistics

The tariff extraction alone saved us hours every week. We were drowning in PDF rate sheets from agents. Susea just reads them and normalises everything automatically. The surcharge automation is something we didn't know we needed until we had it.

Priya Nair·Commercial Director
Trident Global Forwarding

We used to have someone calling eight agents one by one asking if they'd bid yet. Now Susea nudges them automatically — time left, their rank, a reason to move. Our last RFQ closed with all eight bids in without a single manual chase. That's a job nobody misses.

Daniel Osei·Operations Manager
Apex Trade Partners

A customer's WhatsApp message used to sit in an inbox until someone had time to retype it into a quote. Now it shows up already priced, ready for me to approve. I still say yes or no — I just never have to be the one who starts it.

Sarah Lindqvist·CEO
Harbor & Co Freight

The WhatsApp quote sharing is genuinely a game changer for our market. Customers expect instant responses. Now we send a branded, fully calculated quote directly on WhatsApp in seconds, with a one-tap acceptance. Our conversion rate on quotes has gone up noticeably.

Mohammed Al-Rashidi·Pricing Lead
Continental Cargo Group

We had a $40,000 quote expire because nobody caught it in time. Now Susea flags anything about to lapse, re-prices it against today's tariff, and has the re-send ready before the customer even notices. We haven't lost one since.

Elena Vasquez·Head of Procurement
Meridian Freight Solutions

Before Susea, our pricing desk was copy-pasting rates from four different WhatsApp groups into Excel every morning. Now we get a live comparison across 200+ carriers before the first coffee. Quotation time went from 20 minutes to under 90 seconds. That's not an exaggeration.

Arjun Mehta·Head of Pricing
BlueWave Logistics

The tariff extraction alone saved us hours every week. We were drowning in PDF rate sheets from agents. Susea just reads them and normalises everything automatically. The surcharge automation is something we didn't know we needed until we had it.

Priya Nair·Commercial Director
Trident Global Forwarding

We used to have someone calling eight agents one by one asking if they'd bid yet. Now Susea nudges them automatically — time left, their rank, a reason to move. Our last RFQ closed with all eight bids in without a single manual chase. That's a job nobody misses.

Daniel Osei·Operations Manager
Apex Trade Partners

A customer's WhatsApp message used to sit in an inbox until someone had time to retype it into a quote. Now it shows up already priced, ready for me to approve. I still say yes or no — I just never have to be the one who starts it.

Sarah Lindqvist·CEO
Harbor & Co Freight

The WhatsApp quote sharing is genuinely a game changer for our market. Customers expect instant responses. Now we send a branded, fully calculated quote directly on WhatsApp in seconds, with a one-tap acceptance. Our conversion rate on quotes has gone up noticeably.

Mohammed Al-Rashidi·Pricing Lead
Continental Cargo Group

We had a $40,000 quote expire because nobody caught it in time. Now Susea flags anything about to lapse, re-prices it against today's tariff, and has the re-send ready before the customer even notices. We haven't lost one since.

Elena Vasquez·Head of Procurement
Early access · Cohort 02

Join the future of freight pricing.

Get early access to Susea and modernize your freight quotation workflows with AI-powered pricing intelligence. Limited spots — onboarding forwarders and logistics companies this quarter.

142 forwarders on the waitlistWhite-glove onboardingLifetime founder pricing
2.4M+
Quotes modeled
200+
Shipping lines
38
Trade lanes