As a sourcing agent and buyer I can tell you what's a good quotation for me:it includes all relevant information! My job is to find a reliable supplier at a reasonable price in the shortest time possible.
It is very possible that I'll choose a supplier whose price was a few percent higher but the quotation was complete. That means, it includes:
-FOB (!!!) price, with seaport marked! (I often get FOB quotes without location. Obviously for me on Europe a fob Shanghai price was higher than a FOB Xiamen price, since shipping rates was different).
-Delivery time (so far no Chinese supplier is able to keep the promised delivery time for my projects-90% delay, 10% E Arly)
-Package unit (carton details)!!! Carton weight, size, volume, content, material. IT is very important!!! Usually this is simply the left off by suppliers. But
I-and most full-time buyers-have just simply no time to beg for any details separately!!! If A quotation misses this, I simply delete it. I have no time-to-ask for these points and I can only be calculate my shipping cost with this info!!!
-Payment conditions must be exactly discussed.
I Hope suppliers'll consider these points in the future. If you include any relevant information, you can really help your partner in his decision. And for the supplier, it's a job to do once, you needn ' t work out each detail separately.
"Turn" an overseas buyer's proposal for a Chinese supplier quotation