Online e-Procurement sounds great, but don Purchasing Offices require paper copies and won they stand in the way of these e-Procurement methods?
On the practical level OpenRFP does support a printed document approach; i.e., paper can come from the online system. However, it is interesting to us that within the small number of Requests we have supported to date, paper is being used less and less and there is more reliance on the digital formats.OpenRFP works within the framework of existing procurement procedures, but encourages the general and specific initiatives toward e-Commerce that are underway as such changes become more prevalent via the Web. As noted in Question #6 above, we already see that libraries will successfully by-pass traditional procurement methods.
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