WebCATS Add-On Component: Bid Match Program

Especially popular among PTACs, the Bid Match Program has everything your center needs to keep its clients alerted to relevant bid opportunities. Notice how we call it a program and not a module or a utility or a feature. That's because the Bid Match Program is so much more than a bundle of software code. It's an entire service, backed by a dedicated OutreachSystems bid match team, that brings you (1) the most comprehensive database of bid opportunities on the market, (2) the most sophisticated tools available for filtering those bid opportunities, and (3) a Web-based delivery system that brings bid opportunities right to your clients' desktops.

Comprehensive Bid Opportunity Database

As a Bid Match Program subscriber, your center will be able to provide a wide variety of government bid opportunities to its clients:

• USABID. OutreachSystems' USABID database consists of bid opportunities from city, county, and state agencies across the United States. To populate this proprietary database, our Internet Research Team monitors hundreds of procurement Web sites daily.
• FedBizOpps. FedBizOpps is the Internet entry point for all federal bids over $25,000.
• DLA (Defense Logistics Agency). Considered small purchases, OutreachSystems' DLA database contains T-, Q-, R-, and X-bid opportunities that are retrieved daily from DLA's various electronic bulletin boards including DSCC (Defense Supply Center Columbus), DGSC (Defense General Supply Center), DISC (Defense Industrial Supply Center), and DCSC (Defense Construction Supply Center).
• Blue Tops. Blue Tops are DoD press releases issued for contract awards valued at $5,000,000 or more. These press releases help you keep on top of potential subcontracting opportunities.
• International. OutreachSystems' international database includes international agricultural leads, bids from our Foreign Trade Opportunities (FTO) database, as well as opportunities from embassies and consulates around the world. In addition, it contains bid opportunities from MERX, the Canadian equivalent of the FedBizOpps database.

Filtering Bid Opportunities with Precision

To ensure that your clients receive only those bid opportunities they are interested in, OutreachSystems plays a very active role in writing search profiles. When you submit the keywords, phrases, and product codes (e.g. PSCs, FSCs, NSNs, SICs, NAICS) that best describe your client's business, they are thoroughly reviewed and fine tuned (by people, not computers!) based on our 20 years of experience. Common keyword misspellings and pluralizations, wildcards, proximity statements, exclude statements, and many other Boolean logic operators are added to your search profiles to produce the most accurate results possible.

Electronic Delivery of Bid Matches

Your clients will receive notification e-mails from your program whenever new bid matches are available. These e-mails link the client to their own personal page on OutreachSystems' mybidmatch.com Web site, where they can view the newly posted bid matches as well as all bid matches posted in the last 30 days. You too will have access to this bid match directory so that you can track the bids your clients are matching on.

Publish Your Own Bids with BidCenter

BidCenter is an online interface that allows you to publish bid opportunities on behalf of any government agency. It's intended as a tool for you to use to advertise bid opportunities that otherwise have no online forum for people (or OutreachSystems) to monitor. The opportunities that you enter into BidCenter are searched and distributed to your clients like any other bid opportunity that resides in OutreachSystems' database.