Horsham, PA, May 22, 2009, The Baltimore County Public School System has created a culture of “always learning more”. For Baltimore County Public Schools, this means continuing to look for ways to succeed, always striving to be more effective in instruction and operations. In the area of operations, procurement represents a significant portion of the School System’s annual budget. The search for operations improvement led to eSchoolMall™, the leading provider of online procurement solutions for schools.
As the School District analyzed their purchasing and sourcing operations, they came to the conclusion that current systems and processes did not meet the requirements of a large school district facing budget constraints. Richard L. Gay, RSBO, who manages the Office of Purchasing for Baltimore County Public Schools, said, “We knew that we needed a new direction for purchasing and bidding. Our due diligence on this concluded that eSchoolMall was the right provider.”
“The Baltimore County process covers a broad spectrum of their business operations, including bidding, purchasing and textbook management,” said Dan Corazzi, President of eSchoolMall. “We were able to provide an integrated solution that met the District’s requirements. We are very pleased to be working with a sophisticated purchasing organization like Baltimore County Schools.”
Baltimore County Public Schools has licensed eSchoolMall’s Purchasing Solutions Suite and Sourcing Solutions Suite to automate their business operations. With this implementation, users across the District have web access to the applications they need for purchasing and bidding.
Baltimore County Public Schools (www.bcps.org) is 26th largest school system in the U.S. and the 3rd largest in Maryland. With a budget in excess of $1.5 Billion, the District serves over 103,000 students from 172 schools, programs, and centers. For Baltimore County Public Schools, always learning more means continuing to look for ways to succeed, always striving to be more effective in instruction and operations. Baltimore County Public Schools has created a culture of high expectations, rigorous instruction, and broader opportunities for all; the District expects more from its students and from everyone who serves them. They strive to introduce students to more of the world each day.
eSchoolMall (www.eschoolmall.com), an ESM Solutions company, is the leading Internet-based procurement solution provider in the education market. The eSchoolMall solution set includes online procurement tools that connect schools with their preferred vendors. eSchoolMall has been recognized by Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 as one of the fast growing privately held companies in the US and twice by Philadelphia 100 as one of the fastest growing, privately-held companies in the Greater Philadelphia region. eSchoolMall's core purpose is to apply technology, saving time and money that schools can reallocate to already under-funded student programs, to make it easier for schools to go about the business of education. eSchoolMall has over 4,000 educational entities using its electronic procurement solutions.
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