A school district serving 24,000 students in South Carolina recently ran their school food request for proposal (RFP) through eBridge and achieved estimated annual savings of 10% or $500,000.  The incumbent food distributor was awarded the contract.  This was an extremely complex RFP because there was far more involved with buying food for children than just lowering the cost.  The school district took time to identify acceptable brands for every product category in the RFP specifications.  eBridge worked closely with the district to build an RFP that took quality standards into account, while building a bidding format that encouraged competition among the vendors.  A reverse auction was conducted and the vendors lowered their bids a total of 34 times to compete for the district’s $5,000,000 annual contract.