HI Jon,
Are you using DTM on your site? If so, you can create a data element that uses a CCS selector or JSON to retrieve the value from the page. You would want to also create an event-based rule that is triggered when the forum is submitted. That way the data element would be called when the forum is submitted and the value would then be stored in the data element for use in whatever call/code you'd like.
As for the date, there are a few options. I believe in Analytics you can set up your variable to keep track of the first value it received for each user. Another option would be to use some Javascript or a plugin to generate a time/date stamp at the time of the forum submission (this could be placed in the custom code section of the event-based rule). Once you've got the timestamp, you would have to decide if you wanted to include that in the same variable with the quote number or use a different variable for this.
let me know if I can provide additional details or clarification.
Thanks,
Jantzen