Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory including (1) a project management tool, executed by the processor, (2) an effectiveness rating tool, executed by the processor, configured to provide an analytics effectiveness index for analytics provider users, and (3) an auction management tool, executed by the processor, configured to provide a graphical user interface presenting received bids with scoring for each bid, wherein the graphical user interface presents scores corresponding to a price, a delivery timeframe, and an analysis approach, and the graphical user interface includes a set of links to edit values of the scores corresponding to the price, the delivery timeframe, or the analysis approach.

Abstract: An analytics platform includes a user interface providing access to the analytics platform for multiple users, a project management tool including a project definer and a task definer that makes project management resources available to a requestor user, an effectiveness rating tool providing an analytics effectiveness index for analytics provider users, and an auction management tool. The auction management tool allows the requestor user to specify an analytic task for auction, specify auction parameters and weighting of the auction parameters, and provide the specified analytic task for auctioning to ones of the users, the specified analytic task having been defined in the task definer and related to a project defined in the project definer. The auction management tool receives bids on the specified analytic task from analytics provider users; and provides received bids to the requestor user with scoring for each bid based on the parameters and the parameter weighting.