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Our vision: Any authorized employee/ able to acquire best value goods, services, and real estate, from desktop, anywhere, anytime.
What are the characteristics of this vision? A solution which:
- is transparent to the user
- requires only a PC and a web connection for buyers or sellers
- plugs and plays
- built modularly
- new capabilities can be added as required/acquired
- is based/driven on commercial standards
- is enabled/driven by the web
- puts the buying decision in the hands of the user
- ties users to business processes through the web interface
- collects data as transactions occur, e.g.: award, receipt, etc.
To achieve vision, must create govt-wide logistics system which:
- maps the governments logistics processes from requirements generation to property disposal
- satisfies the information requirements of all functional offices (finance, property, insight(oversight), management, etc.)
- shifts the buy decision and responsibility to the user
- requires no upfront investment by the user agencies
- Satisfies government unique requirements (small business, etc.)