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Scout RFP

Scout RFP is a cloud-based strategic sourcing and procurement platform that streamlines the RFP (Request for Proposal) process for procurement teams. Founded in 2014 and acquired by Workday, Scout RFP is now known as Workday Strategic Sourcing. The platform provides REST APIs for managing sourcing events, suppliers, contracts, awards, attachments, and spend categories, enabling integrations with ERP, CRM, and procurement systems.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Scout RFP the way a machine reads it — 46 machine-readable artifacts across 16 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Scout RFP scores 46.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 46.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Scout RFP

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Scout RFP. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 16

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Events API

Manage sourcing events including RFPs, RFIs, and reverse auctions. Supports creating events from templates, updating event details, managing supplier invitations, worksheets, li...

Suppliers API

Manage supplier companies and contacts in the Workday Strategic Sourcing platform. Supports creating, updating, and querying supplier records with version 1.1 of the API.

Contracts API

Manage contracts within the strategic sourcing platform, including creation, retrieval, and updates. Version 1.1 of the API.

Awards API

Manage sourcing award decisions for completed events, tracking supplier selection outcomes and award values. Version 1.1.

Attachments API

Upload and manage file attachments associated with sourcing events, contracts, and other procurement objects. Version 1.0.

Payments API

Manage payment records associated with procurement transactions and contract fulfillment. Version 1.0.

Projects API

Manage procurement projects that organize and group related sourcing events and activities. Version 1.0.

Reports API

Access procurement analytics and reporting data from the Workday Strategic Sourcing platform. Version 1.0.

SCIM Users API

Manage users in the Workday Strategic Sourcing platform using the SCIM 2.0 standard, enabling integration with identity providers for automated user provisioning and deprovision...

Spend Categories API

Manage spend category taxonomies used to classify procurement spending within the Workday Strategic Sourcing platform. Version 1.0.

Scout RFP Bids API

The Bids API from Scout RFP — 5 operation(s) for bids.

Scout RFP Event Suppliers API

The Event Suppliers API from Scout RFP — 2 operation(s) for event suppliers.

Scout RFP Event Templates API

The Event Templates API from Scout RFP — 2 operation(s) for event templates.

Scout RFP Events API

The Events API from Scout RFP — 3 operation(s) for events.

Scout RFP Line Items API

The Line Items API from Scout RFP — 3 operation(s) for line items.

Scout RFP Worksheets API

The Worksheets API from Scout RFP — 2 operation(s) for worksheets.

Scroll within the panel for all 16 ·

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scout Rfp Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Scout Rfp Context

2 classes · 16 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Scout RFP API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Scout RFP API Rules

10 rules · 2 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 17

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

BidResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BidsListResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scout RFP Sourcing Event

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventCreateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventsListResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventTemplateResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventTemplatesListResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventUpdateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineItem

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineItemCreateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineItemResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineItemsListResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineItemUpdateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SupplierRelationshipRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WorksheetResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

WorksheetsListResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Scout Rfp Event Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Scout Rfp Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Scout Rfp Authentication

apiKey · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Scout Rfp Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Scout Rfp Agentic Access

25 operations · 11 acting

25 operations · 11 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Scout RFP — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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