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Case Study 1

Explanation

Office supplies: A leading energy and telecommunications operator issued an invitation for tenders for about 800 office supplies for a whole year. The operator invited the most highly productive suppliers. The starting bid reached the level of 200.000 Euros for all articles. 

• Suppliers had to insert the level of the bidding as well as the packaging sizes, which had been included by a formula into the sum
• Invitation of the suppliers via email by the buyer
• No supplier training necessary
• The price sheet could be downloaded as an excel sheet; this sheet had to be filled in offline and uploaded to the bidding portal

• Time span: 14 days
• No prolongations

By the end of the call for proposals the value of the best bidder was below 140.00 euro.