City Of Poplar Bluff Missouri Starts Purchasing Group

Poplar Bluff, MO - The City of Poplar Bluff, Missouri announced its launching of a Missouri Purchasing Group utilizing BidNet’s e-procurement solution, SourceSuite. The Missouri Purchasing Group allows Poplar Bluff to deliver convenient, centralized online access to bid opportunities to its suppliers. As the pioneer of the Missouri Purchasing Group, the City of Poplar Bluff looks forward to working with other local government agencies within Missouri to build a regional group that helps connect local government agencies to collaborate, share resources, and connect with local vendors.

The City of Poplar Bluff began using the purchasing group on December 8, 2014, offering vendors instant, online access to open RFPs, RFQs, addendum and award information. Poplar Bluff invites all local vendors wanting to do business with the city to join the purchasing group. Vendors will receive access to Poplar Bluff’s bid opportunities and business opportunities from new participating local government agencies utilizing the Missouri Purchasing Group moving forward. Vendors can register online atBids.SourceSuite.com.

Vendor benefits of registering to do business with Poplar Bluff include:

• Online access to RFPs, RFQs, addenda and award information
• Centralized location to opportunities from other local government agencies
• Bid Alerts customized to the Vendors’ products or services offered
• Full support from a live Customer Service team

The City of Poplar Bluff and the SourceSuite e-procurement solution team are speaking with other local Missouri public buying organizations to bring other municipalities and counties together on the purchasing group. BidNet’s procurement solution successfully manages 15 other regional public purchasing systems strategically located throughout the United States. BidNet’s regional purchasing groups providing over 1,000 local government agencies and 9,000 departments with supplier management, document distribution, and audit and control tools.

“We are excited to use a tool for our purchasing team that will save time and money. The City looks forward to future collaboration with like-minded government buying organizations throughout Missouri,” stated Heath Kaplan, City Manager of Poplar Bluff. “The purchasing group allows our valued vendors an easy way to do business with the City and other buying agencies in the area.”

About the City of Poplar Bluff:
The City of Poplar Bluff is a growing, dynamic environment in which new homes are popping up and businesses are thriving with its nearly 17,000 residents. Poplar Bluff is the county seat and is centered in the middle of beautiful Butler County. Poplar Bluff is the gateway to the Ozarks nestled in southeast Missouri, in between St. Louis and Memphis.

About BidNet’s E-Procurement Solution:
BidNet’s e-procurement solution, SourceSuite and its numerous bid systems, provide more than 1,000 government agencies and over 9,000 departments across the country supplier management, document distribution and audit and control tools. More information is available at http://www.SourceSuite.com.