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GSA Launches BroadVision-powered GSA Advantage! B2B Procurement Site and GSA.gov Portal Increased Personalization, Scalability Provides Faster and Easier Procurement, GSA Signs Site License Agreement with BroadVision for Continuing Projects
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct 29, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq: BVSN chart, msgs), the leading provider of enterprise self-service applications, today announced that the U.S. General Services Administration Federal Supply Service (GSA) recently launched its BroadVision(R)-based GSA Advantage! website (http://www.gsaadvantage.gov), the United States government's online business-to-business procurement system as well as e-Buy, its supplier registration and RFQ system. GSA used BroadVision's enterprise self-service application suite -- including BroadVision Business Commerce(TM) and BroadVision MarketMaker(TM) -- to build the new sites. GSA has also launched its information portal (www.gsa.gov), powered by BroadVision's suite of self-service applications.
In addition to launching these updated sites, GSA has signed a three-year unlimited site licensing agreement with BroadVision to enable additional projects.
"With this release we've begun to unveil a completely customized online shopping experience tailored to each customer and their agency," said Al Iagnemmo, e-business director for the Federal Supply Service. "As the largest government e-commerce site, the technology successfully manages our massive procurement volume and offers increased ease-of-use and functionality for our customers while accommodating growth and cross-selling opportunities for GSA."
The GSA Advantage! site provides worldwide support to federal agencies through several business lines: supply, commercial acquisition, vehicle acquisition and leasing, travel and transportation, and property management. New features of the site include:
-- Advanced search capabilities for products and services
-- Automated supplier catalog updates
-- New pricing features including complete order history,
negotiated pricing and quantity discounts
-- A streamlined, faster purchasing system that lets purchases
occur in three easy steps
-- Improved integration between the e-Buy system and GSA
Advantage!. RFQ's prepared on e-Buy can be sent directly to
GSA Schedule vendors
-- "Single sign-on" capabilities that allow users to register
once to access multiple GSA extranets.
Continuing GSA projects include implementing BroadVision InfoExchange Portal(TM) to streamline access to relevant information and services for GSA employees, customers and business partners.
Since the site's inception in 1995 the award-winning GSA Advantage! e-business system has experienced a 3000 percent increase in sales ($6 million/yr to $157 million/yr) and has processed more than 930,000 orders, representing $463 million in sales. One hundred and ninety one thousand registered government buyers use GSA Advantage! to access more than two and one-half million products and services from 6,400 suppliers.
About GSA
GSA is a centralized federal procurement and property management agency that acquires office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services for the federal government. The agency was created by Congress to increase government efficiency and help other federal agencies better serve the public. Since 1949, GSA has housed federal workers and provided products and services to support the work of government throughout the country.
Comprised of 14,000 associates, GSA provides facilities, services and solutions for office operations for 1 million federal employees located in 8,300 government-owned and leased buildings in 1,600 U.S. communities. GSA affects almost $66 billion in financial transactions throughout the government.
About BroadVision
BroadVision's (Nasdaq: BVSN chart, msgs; Neuer Markt:BDN) enterprise self-service applications create immediate business value by transforming the way organizations do business -- moving relationships to a personalized, self-service model that enhances growth, reduces costs and improves productivity. Leading global companies use BroadVision to power their enterprise self-service initiatives -- using the web and wireless devices to unify and extend an enterprise's applications, information and business processes to serve its employees, partners and customers in a personalized and collaborative way |
