easyBid™

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Sealed Bidding Made Easy

eSchoolMall’s comprehensive electronic sealed bidding solution, easyBid™, is designed to streamline and automate the paper and time intensive - and often error prone - manual sealed bidding solicitation process. Employed by school districts, buying cooperatives and educational service agencies, easyBid manages the entire bid process from aggregation of bid requirements, to electronic notification and receiving of bids, through evaluation and award of bids. easyBid enables constituents to input their requirements electronically and allows purchasing entities to aggregate these requirements and solicit bid responses from its vendor community.

easyBid electronically communicates customer specific requirements to each vendor and ensures that all vendors receive the identical requirements. easyBid facilitates unsealing bids at the pre-determined date and time. Once the bids are opened, the bidding entity performs their bid review online and awards items to the selected vendors, notifying the vendors and the constituents involved electronically via the easyBid application. Awarded contracts can be deployed as catalogs in easyPurchase. easyBid allows schools, cooperatives and educational service agencies to easily organize spend management across their entire organization.

easyBid can also combine the strength of an on-line bidding solution with internet-based reverse auction technology to provide customers with valuable strategic sourcing and execution. First, the gathering of constituent sourcing requirements is facilitated through easyBid, which is then passed to our reverse auction engine. This combination provides a complete sourcing solution for high dollar value items and strategic capital equipment.

Customer Features

• Facilitates fully auditable, secure sealed bidding events that comply with an organization's legal, regulatory and reporting requirements
• Automates the aggregation of bid requirements and the solicitation of vendor bids
• Sealed bid and reverse auction capabilities
• Distribution list capabilities and e-mail notification for all bid event participants
• No barriers to participation – vendors need only an e-mail account and internet access to participate in electronic commerce
• Bid data reporting for all participants at every step in the sourcing process
• Insures accountability and provides an audit trail by capturing all information on every bid

Customer Benefits

• Easy to use - minimal training time for all bid event participants
• Significantly reduces the personnel time and paperwork required to complete a sealed bid
• Manages spend on the goods and services procured across the entire organization
• Facilitates faster, more effective communication among all bid participants
• Provides robust bid data and management information
• Includes eSchoolMall's Customer Care support and maintenance

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