In 2009, The City of Fort Smith Arkansas partnered with eBridge on the purchase of their water treatment chemicals, achieving significant savings and efficiencies in their purchasing process.  Because of the success, Fort Smith immediately turned to eBridge to again provide expertise and leadership through this year’s chemical purchase. (Click here to read about last year’s event!)

For the 2010 bid, our team of purchasing professionals assisted the city in sourcing 17 suppliers to participate in the event.  During the bidding event, 293 bids were placed by the 17 suppliers.  In a paper bid process, the City of Fort Smith would have only received 14 bids rather than the 293 subsequent lowering bids that were placed by the 17 suppliers.

Throughout the bid process, eBridge provided consistent communication to the Fort Smith purchasing department about the status of the suppliers, bid documents and confirmation of communication to participating suppliers.  The final deliverable was the reverse auction event that proved to be a huge success, yet again.