Can other responsibilities access Sourcing the same way as Suppliers?

Hi All,

Desperately looking for help.

We have external consultants who access an RFQ to help build the 'document' and also to help evaluate the responses that come in from the Suppliers.

To enable these consultants to have access to the system costs alot of money and is also a security concern to some of our IT teams.

What I would like to know is, can an additional responsibility be highlighted as an external user (in the profile options or some other way), thereby accessing the system the same way a Supplier does?

Thank you for your help.

Debra