How to restrict the publication of an RFI to suppliers once it is internal Approved .

Our Business need : Business needs to prepare the Sourcing Strategy Document and for that collate all the revenant Information's from the listed supplier as part of RFI and send those information's to Internal Approval process for Final Approval. Once the RFI approved this is automatically send communication to the listed suppliers but we want to stop this supplier communication. Is there any way to stop the supplier communication after RFI gets approved and it turns into closed status so that RFQ can be create by copying this RFI.

As per the standard flow RFI auto communicate to the suggested supplier and unable to hold this communication.