Today the Middle South Platte River Alliance has officially joined the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System to help simplify their bid and RFP distribution process. The Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System is one of BidNet’s 21 regional purchasing groups throughout the country which offers participating local government agencies an e-procurement solution. Middle South Platte River Alliance invites all vendors to register online with the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System to access its upcoming solicitations by visiting www.bidnetdirect.com/colorado.
With the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System, vendors register to access one centralized location with opportunities from over 200 participating agencies throughout Colorado and Wyoming. By posting upcoming solicitations to the regional purchasing group, in addition to their website, Middle South Platte River Alliance hopes to make it easier for more vendors to access their documents. They also hope to expand the reach of their solicitations to a more diverse vendor pool. Unlike the prior process of only publishing bids to a webpage, the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System provides a method to track all bid activity, including the details of vendors who have received or downloaded a bid.
“Sometimes distributing a bid on our site just isn’t enough,” says Glen Werning Chairperson of Middle South Platte River Alliance. “Posting the bid for an entire regional community of vendors to see will help us reach more variety of qualified local suppliers. We like that with the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System we can quantifiably track the level of diversity.”
Middle South Platte River Alliance encourages all local vendors to visit www.bidnetdirect.com/colorado and register to receive access to its upcoming solicitations as well as the upcoming bids and RFPs from 202 other public agencies participating on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System. Registered vendors also gain access to a team of experienced customer service support representatives and can upgrade their service to receive customized bid alerts, advanced notice of term contract expiration, and notification of a recently posted addendum.
About the Middle South Platte River Alliance:
In response to the September 2013 flooding of the South Platte River in northern Colorado, a group of individuals and organizations came together to speak for the restoration of the river system and determine ways to make the South Platte more resilient in the face of future flooding events. With the goals of protecting property, preserving natural habitat, restoring portions of the floodplain, and rehabilitating infrastructure along the river, the Alliance guided the drafting of a Master Restoration Plan for the South Platte River between the confluence of the St.Vrain Creek and the Cache La Poudre River. Now complete, the Alliance will be working to implement this important plan. The Alliance strives to promote and implement projects that restore the river’s natural systems and help protect property from future flood events. These projects may include flood debris clean-up, river bank restoration, land conservation, removal of sediment from bridges and diversion structures and other projects deemed necessary to support a healthy and resilient river system.