SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Onvia (NASDAQ:
ONVI), the leading provider of sales intelligence and acceleration
technologies for businesses selling to the public sector, today
announced that the Onvia for Government initiative has now exceeded
over 1,000 state, local and education agency participants
nationwide using both Onvia Exchange and DemandStar. Onvia Exchange
is the most comprehensive library of published purchasing records
featuring more 1.8 million procurement documents from tens of
thousands of government entities collected yearly, with over 2,500
bids and RFP packages added daily. Now, more agencies will be able
to gain access without requirements to contribute data.
This announcement aligns with Onvia's scope of involvement at
the annual NIGP Forum in Salt Lake
City, which includes:
- Partnering with National Cooperative Procurement Partners to
host a complimentary networking and happy hour event on
Sunday August 27th
designed to connect businesses, governments and cooperative
purchasing groups
- Moderating a panel procurement for smart cities, featuring top
procurement professionals and experts, on Monday, August 28th
- Exhibit tools and technologies for business and government in
booth #729
Enabling Efficiency in Public Purchasing
In Onvia's 2017 survey of more than 600 public purchasing
professionals from federal, state, local and educational
governments, 40% reported being over-worked and that their top
challenge was finding the time for pre-bid research and
planning.
"We started Onvia Exchange with a vision of growing a community
of government users who use data to improve their own procurement
performance," said Ben Vaught,
Director of Onvia for Government. "As the world becomes more
transparent, we are bringing Onvia Exchange and investments in
DemandStar to all state, local and educational governments in the
U.S."
Here's how Onvia Exchange users are extracting measurable value
from the tool to save time in the bid and RFP research and
authoring process, while benchmarking their procurement performance
against their peers:
- "Onvia Exchange has been a very helpful tool both for our
purchasing agents and client departments. It has helped us in
researching bids, developing specifications and finding additional
supply sources. This has allowed us to reduce our lead time in
developing solicitations while increasing our competition base." -
Jim Tillman, Purchasing Manager,
Broward County, FL
- "Onvia Exchange gives the ability to quickly search and filter
for comparable bids and RFPs by type of purchase or location. It
has made my process more efficient and the platform is so easy to
use." - Dawn Berry, Purchasing
Agent, Town of Little Elm, TX
- "The City of Perryville is
seeing an immediate impact from using the Onvia Exchange." –
Tracy Prost, City Clerk,
City of Perryville, MO
Data in the Onvia Exchange is sourced, organized and displayed
using the most modern search technologies and Onvia's proprietary
ontology. Users are empowered to save valuable time by identifying
relevant contract examples to streamline their bid research and
authoring processes, as well as to collaborate with peers in the
procurement community. In addition, agency users can reduce the
time spent responding to time-consuming FOIA requests with
capabilities that allow for easy upload of awards records and bid
results data directly through the system. This not only cuts the
time spent responding to public records requests, it also enriches
the datasets that both Onvia's business clients and government
agency partners enjoy.
"With Onvia Exchange and DemandStar, over 1,000 purchasing
departments are already taking a data-driven approach to their
procurement processes to deliver more value for the citizens they
serve," said Vaught. "Purchasing officials across the country
report cutting their research time by over 50% as well as
identifying more piggybacking and cooperative purchasing
opportunities."
Government employees can learn more and sign up to get started
with the Onvia Exchange and DemandStar here.
About Onvia
Onvia (NASDAQ: ONVI) is the leader in
sales intelligence and acceleration for businesses selling to the
public sector. Onvia provides enterprise, mid-market and small
business customers with the most comprehensive set of federal,
state and local government contracting leads. Clients grow their
sales pipeline with access to bids, RFPs and future spending data,
along with agency contacts, competitor information and market
analytics – all backed by Onvia's smart search technology, CRM
integration and expert support. Resolving the friction in this
$2 trillion market, Onvia creates
mutual value for public and private sectors, taxpayers and society
at large.
For more information visit https://www.onvia.com or follow us on
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