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Option for Vendor Bidders’ List
Continued from page 34 How about a website that not only
The benefit for vendors is a central repository of bids and maintains all your prospective vendor
proposals for your vendors, which will only help to increase the information but also has the ability to
competition level for your solicitations. Vendors, you should also
be promoting the use of this website, as it will decrease your need automatically notify multiple vendors of
to register with so many districts and it helps give you a more
central location to register with school districts. bids and quotes at the touch of button?
The only question is: “Why wouldn’t you check out this The benefits of this website are numerous,
inexpensive tool and see if it would help your district survive in
these trying economic times?” and the website can be found at www.
School districts that wish to learn more about the website can
go to the site’s Contact page, fill-out the form and select Crane azpurchasing.org. Among other things,
Elementary School District for the “Send Message To” option. It participation in this website will give your
truly is worth taking a look at this tool to make your procurement
process more efficient. district instant access to thousands of
Bill Munch, CPPO, CPPB is the Procurement Compliance and vendors. You can easily pull vendor lists in
Training Officer for Valley Schools Management Group, recipient Excel format and sort them in any manner
of the 2018 AASBO Bill Lovett Award and the 2016 NIGP National
Purchasing Manager of the Year. He provides consultation on your heart desires.
public procurement matters for school districts and vendors across
the state of Arizona. He may be reached at: bmunch@vsit.org.
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