July
19, 2001
Solutions Engineering, Inc., an innovative information technology
(IT) company that combines diverse development experience,
proven project management, and technical skills to develop
and maintain business solutions, has been working with the
U.S. Army's Communications Electronic Command (CECOM) to implement
a strategic and cost-effective e-procurement system, which
includes catalog, exchange, and reverse auction capabilities
to facilitate the acquisition process. During the 6-month
pilot phase alone, the project helped the Department of Defense
(DoD) save $1.4 million in just 24 auctions.
Solutions
Engineering has been streamlining the user registration
process and customizing the product to meet the many unique
federal acquisition regulations and needs of the DoD. Using
Frictionless Commerce's e-Marketplace software, the system
offers advanced catalog search capabilities for market research
and strategic sourcing. The DoD-wide reverse auction capabilities
help reduce cost and maximize buying power through price
reduction and economies of scale. Once fully implemented,
the catalog and exchange will be used as extensions of existing
legacy systems and be seamlessly integrated into the reverse
auction module.
Not
only does our solution allow reverse auction capability,
but also allows bids based on a large variety of complex
and interrelated factors. Some of these factors may include:
delivery timeline, installation, and service, among others.
This provides the DoD with a much broader set of criteria
from which to evaluate bids - not just on price alone. These
criteria can be fully customized by the client on a per
item basis.
At
the fourth annual DoD E-Commerce Day Conference in Alexandria,
VA, this project received an outstanding achievement award
for innovation and efficiency. This same initiative has
been recognized by Government
Executive Magazine, the Council for Excellence
in Government, and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy,
as a finalist for the "Business Solutions in the Public
Interest" (BSPI) Awards.
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