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There are so many benefits to the MarketPlace system, but the most basic and immediate are the following:
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You will receive personalized bid notification emails filled with new bid opportunities that best match the products or services you sell. Opportunities contain bid notices, RFQ, RFP, and contracting opportunities from, state and local government agencies and other B2B buyers. |
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| • | B2B exposure: |
Your company’s business profile and the identification of the goods and services you sell is immediately available to thousands of buyers. |
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| • | Online bidding and awards: |
Save time and reduce errors by building and tracking your bids electronically. You can submit your bids to thousands of vendors who sell the exact commodity you are looking for. Your company’s buyers have a full e-procurement capability to create and release electronic solicitations and electronic purchase orders. |
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SicommNet’s MarketPlace system tracks thousands of state and local agencies and departments and the list grows weekly. Additionally, the solicitations that you receive from the States of Maine, Idaho and Hawaii, as well as Jackson County Missouri and The New York City Animal Care Center can all be responded to electronically on the MarketPlace system.
To find out if your state and/or local agencies are covered, or to request them to be included in our tracking system, please email us.
On average, there are approximately 6000 bid opportunities available on a daily basis. New bids open and are added to the MarketPlace system each day and are sent out by our notification system each night. Bids that have been closed and awarded are removed from the system so that your company never receives outdated or irrelevant emails.
By registering as a supplier or vendor you will be able to respond on-line to a bidding opportunities from Maine, Idaho, Hawaii, Jackson County Missouri and the NYCACC. Additionally, you may upgrade your service and elect to receive extended opportunity notifications from the thousands of additional agencies tracked by SicommNet's MarketPlace system.
All of SicommNet's systems and solutions utilizes the NIGP commodity coding system, which is widely utilized by State and Local Governments. This system encompasses more than 400,000 service and product descriptions, codes and sub-codes. SicommNet provides a simple and intuitive search system to determine which codes best describe the products and services you sell.
You control your inclusion in solicitation bidding lists. Simply choose you region(s) of interest and select the commodity codes for all the products and services that you would like to be notified about. Your company is automatically included in every solicitation opportunity that matches this goods and services profile.
You have immediate access to the abstract of all bidders (including yourself) for all the bids that you respond on line. Additionally, when you win a Purchase Order From either Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Jackson County, MO. or the NYCACC, you will receive the PO electronically via email.
The only requirement is a simple Internet connection. However, the recommended
browser to use while navigating the MarketPlace and BaSEC systems is Netscape
7.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or higher. click HERE
for more detail on browser compatibility.
No, there is no fee whatsoever to register as an Agency Buyer and to use
the SicommNet BaSEC e-Procurement solution. Please contact
us and we will advise you of our NO COST agency plan.
Yes! Please contact
us to discuss how to expose your agencies bids to thousand of new
vendors or to discuss the BaSEC system complete e-Procurement solution.
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SicommNet was the first company to develop and implement the electronic
bid and response ASP service specifically for public agencies. SicommNet’s
public agency customers describe the system as the most comprehensive
complete e-Procurement system available for public buyers.
SicommNet is also the only company that offers the complete end-to-end
solutions for agency buyers and vendors as well as private sector buyers.
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No more faxing, filing, copying, mailing or tabulating! How's that? No
more daily responses to vendor inquiries on prior bid information and
no need for a vendor Rolodex. You are provided an Electronic trail of
all your procurement activities.
All of this results in a leveled playing field, with faster turnaround,
more bidders and more competition and savings in both administrative costs
and cost of goods acquired. The largest benefits? Productivity and Efficiency.
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Public agencies are seeking a total solution to automate their existing
procurement systems, collect comprehensive data on expenditures, reduce
the procurement cycle time, and reduce the cost of purchased goods and
services.
SicommNet offers public agencies a self-funded model, which obviously
means that it pays for itself. SicommNet assumes all the costs of integration
and implementation, and is compensated entirely from vendor transaction
fees based on awards received. The system is hosted by SicommNet and includes
a commodity/service classification code system to categorize each registered
vendor by the commodity or service the company provides and generate reports
based on the data collected.
A public agencies decision to implement the BaSEC e-Procurement solution
is based on the time and cost savings for the agency and the high level
of compliance to both small and large purchase procedures.
The BaSEC e-Procurement solution includes on-line vendor registrations, requests for quotations (RFQ's), Invitations to bid (ITB's), Requests for proposals (RFP's), Reverse auctions and price lists/requirements cataloging systems.
SicommNet saves agencies money while making its purchasing practices more
open and accessible. the BaSEC solution eliminates the cost, paperwork
and time involved in contracting. The current method of awarding contracts
less than $25,000 involves soliciting offers by phone or fax, a time-consuming
and sometimes unfair practice. By using SicommNet’s BaSEC system,
agencies are spared the time to solicit offers under the current method
as registered businesses are automatically notified whenever the agency
submits and/or updates an online solicitation.
There is no vendor registration fee. However there may be a transaction
fee applicable to awards from some agencies. This fee will be based on
the dollar value of the awards/purchase orders made and shall be payable
by the vendor to SicommNet. Vendors will have the option to include the
transaction fee in their offer.
While there can be no guarantee that any vendor will receive an award
for their goods or services, they can be assured that if there is a request
for a good or service that they provide and have met the criteria set
up by the agency, they will receive a notification of the solicitation
and an equal opportunity to compete for awards.
Taxpayers benefit from SicommNet’s streamlined e-Procurement process,
because Agencies procure goods and services faster and at a more competitive
price- an overall savings in taxpayer's dollars.