GOVERNMENT

AMS Advantage^® Procurement

Supporting efficient, best-value purchasing

eVA is a tool that helps the Commonwealth realize savings through streamlined purchasing processes and lower costs for goods and services.

Governor Mark Warner, Commonwealth of Virginia

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Public sector procurement is not just about getting the price down. It is about managing the relationships, contracts, bids and information that fuels overall buying power and drives decision making.

AMS Advantage helps state and local governments streamline the purchasing process with a solution that reduces costs and increases efficiency. By incorporating workflow, automating processes and rolling out self-service, AMS Advantage clients manage the purchasing lifecycle—including contract, solicitation and workload management, and vendor and shopper self-service—and comply with government-specific purchasing rules and best practices.

• Automate the procurement process to manage relationships, not just contracts
• Evaluate bids more quickly to increase the percentage of quotes and create more options
• Access negotiated price lists to allow end users to take greater advantage of negotiated prices from easy-to-use cataloging
• Incorporate rules-based approval and automated workflow to control spending while reducing time to source a requisition
• Benefit from online self-service to allow vendors to maintain their own information from a central vendor profile
• Allow vendors to track opportunities online, responding electronically with fast information on awards
• Reduce costs by automating routine spending, consolidating purchasing and creating larger cooperative purchasing opportunities

With AMS Advantage, organizations such as the City of Dallas, State of Missouri and Prince William County Public Schools, Maryland, are partnering with their vendor community, providing self-service for registration, opportunities and solicitations. For example, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s eVA program, the largest statewide procurement system in the country, uses AMS Advantage to serve more than 140 state and local agencies, colleges and universities representing over 4,200 users. As of September 2006, the system has processed over 1 million orders from more than 32,000 suppliers.

For more information, contact CGI at amsadvantage@cgi.com or 1-800 321-0267.

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