The E-Commerce Quandary: Tempered by the collapse of the dot-com boom, education institutions are taking a more guarded approach to moving their purchasing operations online.
American School & University, February, 2002 by Kennedy, Mike
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As the agency that buys equipment and supplies for some 350 school districts in Nebraska, the purchasing cooperative for the Nebraska Educational Service Units has the unenviable task of sifting through mountains of orders from schools and compiling information on bids submitted by vendors.
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But starting last year, the co-op revamped its large annual bid event. Instead of a paper-based bid process, the districts and educational service units submitted their requests, and vendors made their bids, online over the Internet. The tedious effort of entering the bid information into ...
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