Dare to Evolve – Registration is now open for Evolve 2012!
Come learn how with a purpose driven approach you can take your ordinary procurement processes and transition into strategic practices that eradicate waste and bring value to every dollar spent.
Evolve will cover industry best practices and include training from respected procurement industry thought leaders. The conference offers opportunities to network and problem solve with peers and partners. Purchasing professionals nationwide will collaborate on procurement obstacles and successes, discuss cutting edge trends, and explore the future of procurement.
Become a leader in public sector procurement and be a force behind the change to make a difference in government spending. Come Evolve.
The conference will take place in Austin, TX from April 10-11that the Historic Driskill Hotel. Visit evolve.periscopeholdings.com to register and for more information.
Make sure you register before February 20th for the early bird rate. Final agenda and keynote speaker coming soon!
The City of New Orleans saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by rolling out BuySpeed’s Contract Management. Previously, New Orleans used a homegrown Electronic Contract Routing System that failed to meet the City’s needs. Rather than spending a fortune to recreate the wheel, the City’s Service and Innovation Team realized functionality within their eProcurement system BuySpeed that could solve their problems at a fraction of the cost.
Andy Kopplin, New Orleans’ Chief Administrative Officer, addressed City Council during a 2012 budget presentation on October 17th and said, “We spent well over $1 million in the prior administration building a customized software program to track contracts. Unfortunately, when we performed our contracting process, the software didn’t serve us well in terms of managing that new process. We looked at rewriting that program, and it was going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Instead, folks from the innovations team looked at an existing program we used called BuySpeed. It turns out it has a contract tracking process with it. And for $63,000 we started using an existing component of BuySpeed that we’ve had for the last ten years that we’ve not implemented to track contracts. So that’s just one example of the kind of savings this team has produced for us.”
Start saving your agency money by implementing BuySpeed eProcurement or by expanding your current BuySpeed functionality.
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Do you want an e-Procurement system that hosts your catalogs online, but can’t figure out how much it is going to cost to implement? E-Procurement pricing models can be confusing, leaving procurement reform on the back burner. When it comes to online catalogs, pricing should be clear and all-inclusive.
Periscope’s e-Procurement pricing model is simple. We load ALLof your contracts. Whether an agency has 100 or 10,000 contracts, BuySpeed loads and hosts each contract at no additional cost.
BuySpeed’s Contract/Catalog Management gives you the ability to:
- Budget with concrete numbers –no hidden fees
- Increase vendor competition – post all contracts to catalog
- Practice vendor equality – no decisions around which vendors make the online cut
- Level the vendor playing field – drive business to local economies
- Increase efficiencies – search thousands of catalogs and purchase off contracts with the click of a mouse
Periscope is not a content management company posing as an e-Procurement solution. We are leaders in public sector e-Procurement providing full catalog management as part of our solution. We don’t expect our clients to tailor their contract offerings and business practices to fit our business model. That is why Periscope developed its online contract and catalog business model to be tailored to meet our clients’ needs.
Periscope Holdings is proud to announce Evolve 2012. Evolve is a premier industry conference gathering procurement professionals nationwide to collaborate on procurement obstacles and successes, discuss cutting edge trends, and explore the future of procurement. The time is now to become a leader in public sector procurement. Come learn how you can Evolve and be a cut above the rest.
Evolve 2012 will take place in Austin, Texas, at the historic Driskill Hotel, April 10th-11th, 2012.
Mark your calendars as this is an event you do not want to miss! More information coming soon.
Periscope’s development team continually produces software improvements to make your life easier. Upgrade to 9.5.0 to experience the benefits. BuySpeed’s latest release includes many valued enhancements, a few include:
- NIGP 5-digit update support – when downloading code updates from nigp.com, the commodity code file updates in BuySpeed. This automation streamlines coding processes.
- CAPTCHA support – adds a 2nd layer of security to prevent automated attacks against the BuySpeed application. CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test to ensure the response is generated by a person not a computer.
- Solicitation and contract filtering – offers the capability to filter select solicitations and contracts for reasons required/acceptable by law – for example having the ability to filter contracts in relation to Homeland Security.
We’ll be hosting webinar sessions November 15th and 16th to introduce the new release and it’s enhancements in full. For more information, contact bdevine@periscopeholdings.com.
